Oxford, January 12, 2016
Subject: PETRAS wins a £32.8 million research grant on the Internet of Things
Oxford, 23 November 2014
to: Dr Eduardo Marotti, Presidente Associazione Mevaluate Onlus, Via Nizza, 45, 00198 Roma
(Italy)
Subject: Volume
on “EthicsRoma
and Policies
for Cyber Warfare”
cc: Dr Eduardo Marotti, Presidente Mevaluate Italia Srl, Via Nizza,
45, 00198
(Italy)
Dear Dr Baylon,
We are delighted to inform you that the PETRAS consortium has been awarded a £32.8 million
Following-on the workshop on ‘Ethics and Policies for Cyber Warfare’ (http://ccdcoe.org/ethics-andresearch grant on the Internet of Things by the UK’s
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
policies-cyber-warfare.html) held this month at the Magdalen College in Oxford under the auspices of the
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence Tallinn, Estonia, I am now preparing a volume
collecting the papers presented during the meeting. The book will also include contributions of experts
could not participate in the event, but who expressed their interest in the topic.
The grant will finance a three-year projectwho
that
will be developed by nine universities –
This project will maintain the interdisciplinary approach endorsed for the workshop and will
together, world-leading
philosophers,
policy-makers,
law and military experts in order to
UCL, Imperial College London, University of bring
Oxford,
University
of ethicists,
Warwick,
Lancaster
clarify and discuss the ethical and regulatory problems raised by new forms of warfare based on ICTs.
issue could not
be more pressing of
and there
is a much-felt andand
quickly escalating need to
University, University of Southampton, University ofThe Surrey,
University
Edinburgh,
share information and coordinate ethical theorising and policy actions. The volume will be a major
to gather
leading expertspartners
in different fields
to present theiramong
research with the goals to share
Cardiff University. The project will also include occasion
several
industrial
including,
information and views, and lay down the foundation for an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of
cyber warfare.
others, Cisco, BT, Telefonica, and of course Mevaluate.
The question for the authors will be how ICTs are affecting our ethical views of warfare. In
This project will have both a national and international
impact.
Its will
overall
goalothers,
willissues
be like
tothe analysis of just-war
particular the contributions
to the volumes
address, among
principles in the light of ICT applications; humanitarian military interventions based on ICTs; whether
improve the security, resilience, and reliance of the
technology
thecriteria;
Internet
preventive
acts of cyber warunderpinning
may satisfy jus ad bellum
challenges of
of upholding jus in bello
standards in cyber warfare, especially in asymmetric cyber conflicts; and more in general contributions to
Things and, by doing so, to foster its social acceptability
dissemination.
Drposed
Taddeo
will
the volumeand
will address
the regulatory problems
by this newand
form ofI warfare.
As a leading expert on the topic, I would like to invite you to contribute to the volume with a
be leading the research on the ethicsl impact chapter.
of IoT.
are about
both
convinced
that“Ethics
theand Policies for Cyber
Here are We
some details
the volume:
it will be entitled
Warfare” and will be published in the Philosophical Studies Series (Springer), each contribution should
collaboration with Mevaluate, and in particular bewith
its World Ethics Committee and with
between 6000 and 9000 words long; the deadline for the submission of the chapter is likely to be
February the 1st 2015, but of course we can agree on a more suitable deadline if this one turns out
Professor Giuseppe Tesauro, will have a great role around
in the
development of this part of the project.
to be difficult for you. In order to prepare a provisional table of contents I will need a title and a short
200 and 300 words) abstract and I would be very grateful if you could send these with your
We wish to take this opportunity to thank you and(between
Mevaluate
for your fundamental support. We
reply, if possible by December the 8th.
I very much hope you will be able to accept this invitation
look forward to start our collaboration as soon as possible.
Council.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Luciano Floridi
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information
Director of Research
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
Yours sincerely,
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo
Research Fellow- inOxford
Cyber SecurityInternet
and Ethics, PAIS,
University ofUniversity
Warwick, UK of
Researcher
Institute,
Research member of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, UK
Oxford,
President,Oxford,
International UK
Association for Computing and Philosophy
President - International Association for Computing
and Philosophy