ETHICS

What does "ETHICS" means?

Most of the population knows about this word, however, they do not really understand this concept. Ethics is known as the branch of philosophy that investigates and promote a critical reflection of the values that guide our decisions and behaviours.

Pedro Robles:

“Do we use any strategies that regulate the use of technologies on kids?”

Technologies have grown substantially during the last decade. They have changed our lives, making it much easier. In the same way, they affect little kids. The development of technologies has reached these new costumers. Nowadays, the children have mobile phones or other technologies as computers or game consoles, since they are 10 years old. Their parents are not conscious of the effect that technologies are having on kids. There are cases in which they prefer to stay watching TV or playing with the game console, instead of playing with their friends on the park or everywhere. This would spark on social or physical problems into the children.

Luis Rodriguez:

Ethical problems are problems caused by one or more individuals that can affect a community and also himself.

Nowadays we can find some ethics problems related with the technology such as:

Three parent babies’ debate or discussion related to biological technologies:

The issue of three-parent babies has divided the scientific community and thrown up a host of ethical concerns. Here are the arguments for and against the new procedure, which proposes to mend faulty DNA with genetic material from a ‘second mother’.

·         3-D printing

Scientists are attempting to use 3-D printing to create everything from architectural models to human organs which is a great and positive thing, but we could be looking at a future in which we can print personalized pharmaceuticals or home-printed guns and explosives which can affect directly the society and create more ethical problems or issues. For now, 3-D printing is largely the realm of artists and designers, but we can easily envision a future in which 3-D printers are affordable and patterns abound for products both benign and malicious, and that cut out the manufacturing sector completely. Generally, we think that 3-D printing is a great technological progress or innovation but we need to look the opposite side and it can be really damage for our future society.

Enrique Reina Gutiérrez

Technology is developing in a rapidly way, developing more than what we believe, however, we are not conscious of how this affect our way of behaving and been.

Principally, I am going to focus at the newest emerging technologies of telecommunications, such as WhatsApp and skype.

This technologies try to simulate the real contact and is time to see the comebacks of this technologies.

For a first instance, the first considerable problem is the addiction that more and more people are starting to suffer and experiment. As humans, we are a species that we need to communicate, we need to live in groups, so the need of communication comes at our DNA. However, we are letting more and more this necessity to reach dangerous levels.

This technologies has offer us to communicate globally and because we want more and more, we get addicted to it. The clearest example is the change of how kids evolve from not having mobile phones into phones dependent, because of the fact that they need to socialize.

Also, social networks have developed extreme cases of “communication addiction”, giving to the users more and more need for acceptation. We are changes our basic priorities to stupid ones such as having a lot of followers or being known. But the most characteristic problem of this, is how I said, the need of acceptation that has caused. This have influenced in the children thoughts as: Having more WhatsApp’s contacts better I am or having more like in social medias, better I am, etc. This is making kids underestimate themeselves.

To sum up, due to these new ways of communication, we are changing or capacity of seeing ourselves and other, we are injuring each other and the worse of all, we  trending to meet or hang out sit in front of the computer, leaving physical contact die out.

Bibliography:

https://adiccionmovil.wordpress.com/tag/estadisticas/

BEST IDEAS OF SPACE PANEL

Best ideas:

For this panel, we had all more or less the same idea and we find the same issues, so because of this, we are choosing everyone´s ideas, even they want to explain the same:

“Investigating does not mean to be all day in the laboratory, is to imagine”- Enrique Reina

"I think that the investigation is essential to solve all this type of problems because its always need the study of the things."- Pedro Robles

"Space is not only technology, there is a lot of science behind it." - María Victoria

"I believe that the future of the human being is far away from Earth"- Fernando Villamarín

As a group, we believe that this are the best ideas of the group because there are the ones that are able to englobe all the pros and cons of space panel.

SPACE PANEL

Space panel

Enrique Reina:

Mr. Elías Atienza Alonso

 “Humanity is confronting big issues”

“The world is progressing through investigations, such as technical as social ones”

“Investigating does not mean to be all day in the laboratory, is to imagine”

Mr. Javier López Rubio (jlr@navair.es)

“To reach space, one of the paths to follow are the enterprises and the people that compose them.”

“An enterprise is not composed only by the people, it is also composed by values.”

“The values that compose an enterprise are commitment, innovation and quality”

Mr. Eduardo López González

“ESA has a developing complement englobing the civil development and technological development”

“ESA is the space gate of Europe to space.”

“To go to space we only need a good idea.”

Mr. Raúl Carballo Rubio

eLISA: the future of gravitational waves.

The astrophysics tries to understand the received information from space.

Main Idea:

What I took in clear from the talk, is that space is just another boundary for humans. We want to discover more and more and to do that, we need to invest in the space industries. Not only people, also money and food ideas. Along the talk, the guests have showed us the importance of know about the new industries and the need of the development of this new rising technologies.

Fernando Villamarín:

•          Humanity is facing a lot of problems altogether.
•          We need ideas, and they come from research.
•          Societies will not move forward if there is nobody researching.
•          Limiting research’s resources is an error.
•          Space career is a competition between countries.
•          Space technology is expected to return the money invested into it.
•          Every activity related with space requires a huge amount of resources.
•          Space programs require companies and people supporting them.
•          A company is made out of people, but also values.
•          Space = engineering + quality.

I believe that the future of the human being is far away from Earth, as our planet will become small for us. Therefore, we should invest on developing space technology, and researching for innovative ideas, that allow us develop our activity in space.

Pedro Robles:

There are two essential parts in a spatial business: Quality and engineering.

As D. Javier López Rubio said the quality and the engineering are the pillars of a spatial business. As well as those, creativity and imaginary are very important bases on this panel. I have chosen this idea because I´m 100% in favor of the fact that creativity is essential to obtain new ideas and better quality for the business.

Without investigation, we couldn´t solve any type of social, technological, economical, problems.

I think that the investigation is essential to solve all this type of problems, because it´s always need the study of the things.

María Victoria:

Mr. Elías Atienza Alonso

·         Society will not move forward if there is no one investigating.

·         Ideas transform in the investigation and these in new products.

Mr. Javier López Rubio

·         To be in space for 60 min you will need to pay 100000 dollars.

·         Nowadays China´s National Space Administration (CNSA) is the space business nº1 in the world.

Mr. Eduardo López González

·         Space is not only technology, there is a lot of science behind it.

·         Big challenges and costs lead to space, therefore it requires a lot of group work.

Mr. Raúl Carballo Rubio

·         There are objects which do not emit light neither produces electromagnetic waves, but do produce gravitational waves; they are called black holes.

·         Gravitational waves do exist but we cannot perceive then due to our capacities, however we can measure them.

Main Idea

After the Space Panel, I would say that for everything related to space is required many resources as it implies really high costs. In addition to this we need investigation for everything which will mean we also need it to everything related to space which also requires high costs as these companies invest a lot in space materials, designing, creating, etc.

BEST IDEAS OF: WATER & GOVERNANCE PANEL

Water panel:

For this panel, we had all more or less the same idea and we find the same issues, so because of this, we are choosing everyone´s ideas, even they want to explain the same:

"...over the world there are many people without water because it is not well distributed despite the fact that there is enough water."- Maria Victoria

"This administration problem is producing the death of 1 of every 6 children in zones as Africa, Asia…"- Pedro Robles

"Lots of people have no access to one of the keys of life, water."- Enrique Reina

"...the biggest problem of water is trying to deliver it to everybody"- Fernando Villamarín

"...make a fair distribution of water..."- Luis Rodriguez

Governance Idea:

"...the governance concept consists of the decision making."-María Victoria

"Technology might give a boost to the governance..."-Pedro Robles

" ...citizens should receive information about governance"-Luis Rodriguez

"...a lot of countries refuse to be so transparent and give so much information, which is the base of corruption."-Fernando Villamarin

" ...citizens should receive information about governance"-Luis Rodriguez

"If we can reach this "objectives", we will be more and more near to a utopia."-Enrique Reina 
Objectives: The ones showed above.

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As a group, we think that this are the bests ideas, because of the fact that each one explains the main issues of the presented problems. However, we do not present many solutions. Because of that, here are our solutions for the issues that present each panel:

Solution for WATER panel:

As the main problem that we found is the distribution of water, our solution for this issue, would be creating an special Governmental Global Transport Organisation, in charge of transporting water to places where they struggle with the obtainance of this liquid.Indeed, a problem of this solution maybe would the cost or the money needed to realise this project, however, the happiness of the people has no price.

Solution for GOVERNANCE panel:

For this, we presented 5 main issues, indeed, the solution is simple. We have to reach a relation between the governance and the people, that lead to the a more clear relationship and this one will fight for our rights. However, first of all, people need to be informed and know about governance and the best way of expanding information is through the new raising technologies.

WATER & GOVERNANCE PANEL

WATER PANEL:

María Victoria:

D. Agustín Argüelles 

Access water is a difficult issue for a big sector of the world population.

2400 million people do not have access to water sanitation. 

D. Pedro Rodríguez

Water is a concept and a right we should own.

We do not have awareness about the use of water as it is a routine.

D. Ricardo García 

There is enough water in the world, however, there is no equity in its distribution.

Guarantee the accessibility of water.

Main Idea

From the panel I conclude that all over the world there are many people without water because it is not well distributed despite the fact that there is enough water, however, people still have the problem that they might have water but it is no sanitation and they can even get some diseases.

Pedro Robles:

Main Idea

There is enough water in the world to supply the earth´s population, but there is a management problem. There are 1400 million km3 of water in the whole world. We don´t know how to share the water equitably in between all the members of the world´s population. This administration problem is producing the death of 1 of every 6 children in zones as Africa, Asia…, so we should drastically change this know!

Enrique Reina:

Main idea:

Lots of people have no access to one of the keys of life, water. Along all the talk, the guests showed us how difficult is life without the right access of water. Due to this, we need to find a way to transport water to this people. There is enough water, however, there is not a fair distribution of it. Is simple, without water, we die. Indeed, what I took in clear from the talk, was how difficult is life without water and how easy would be to transport, with only some organisation.

Fernando Villamarín:

• Water demand will increase by a 40% in 50 years.
• There is a problem of scarcity and difficulty of access to water.
• In Spain, the 70% of water consumed is for agriculture.
• There is enough water for everybody, but there is a problem of management.
• Water is a human right.
• The councils are the ones responsible on managing the water to all of its citizens.
• The water must return to the rivers.
• Residual water depuration is going to be penalized in the future.
• Nobody would get his water supply cut if he cannot pay it.
• The problem of water is equality in its delivery.

I believe that the biggest problem of water is trying to deliver it to everybody, because, in some places, a portion of the population do not have access to water. Therefore, I think that if these people had access to more developed water extraction, like deep wells; and water depuration system, their life quality would increase a lot. On the other hand, if water depuration systems were improved, the availability of water would increase, as the environmental impact would decrease.

Luis Rodriguez:

D. Agustín Argüelles Martín:

There is a problem of scarcity and access to water use for a large portion of the world population.

1.2 billion people have difficulties to access to water.

Only 2.5% of all water on earth is freshwater.

D. Pedro Rodríguez Delgado:

Water is a natural resource, but we need to make them reach the houses.

There are many countries in the world which have supply problems.

D. Ricardo García Pérez:

How to manage a fair and equitable sharing of water is the main challenge or goal.

MAIN IDEA:

The main conclusion or purpose is to make a fair distribution of water as there is a huge inequality in areas, plenty of water and others where the lack of water is really shocking. We need to find the way of transporting huge and extremely big amounts of water that way we will decrease the bad water distribution.

Also, another good solution is to find a method or technology that can transform or turn salt water into fresh water because only the 2.5% of all water in earth is freshwater.

GOVERNANCE PANEL:

María Victoria:

D. Manuel Gracia

The world has changed, therefore, governance also has to change.

Citizens need to know the most information available so they can take part at the time of making decisions.

D. José Manuel Cervera

Governance is a symptom between the distance citizens – governance.

One problem of the distance of governance and citizens is the distance between the evolution of technology and governance.

Dña. Mª Cruz Arcos

Global problems need global solutions to be solved.

The concept of governance needs to be wider and cover more areas rather than politics.

D. Javier Cuenca

Advocacy is the capacity of influencing the ones who take decisions.

We need to pay attention to those who make decisions about our government. 

Main Idea

After the governance panel, everyone who took part concluded that transparency is one of the most important things to governance and this concept consists of the decision making.

Pedro Robles:

"The new governance has to be base on technologies."

This quote, said by D. Manuel Gracia Navarro, shows perfectly the impact that technologies are having in the world. We have seen before, technologies in education and health, and know in governance. The governance is suffering a huge change, and as the speakers said, it´s necessary to raise again a lot of things. Technology might give a boost to the governance, and it´s a great idea that I liked to share.

Enrique Reina:

Mr. Manuel García Navarro:

A more transparent governance

More and more, we have in our lives more opinions and less information

Mr. José Manuel Cervera Cragera

Each governace should have these purposes:

-Legality: Country and system

-A mature governator

-Efficacy and transparency

Mss. Mª Cruz Arcos Vargas

The global issues require global answers.

Mr. Javier Cuenca Villén

Children need a serie of rights that protect them.

MAIN IDEA

What I took in clear from what the guests had exposed about, is that we have to fight for our duties and rights. we have to protect the children because they are the future of our country and we have to look for a relation between the governance and the people, which is transparent. If we can reach this "objectives", we will be more and more near to a utopia.

Fernando Villamarín:

• We live in a globalized world.
• With the internet, the governments should be more transparent.
• Citizens should have access to information, in order to be able to take place in the government.
• Government should be respectful with diversity in order to be effective.
• The government should use effectively new technologies, in order to deliver information to the population.
• We are in a time of change, and that is reflected in the stability of the countries.
• The government should be legalized; nothing can be above the law.
• The governors should be responsible, and carry out the obligations.
• Global problems require global solutions.
• The multinational companies are those who make a profit from the division of the world in countries.

What I have clear about government is that it should be transparent and citizens should know what their government is doing at any moment. For this purpose, technology is crucial, as it is the most effective way to deliver information to a lot of people. This would be very beneficial, but a lot of countries refuse to be so transparent and give so much information, which is the base of corruption.

Luis Rodriguez:

Mr. Manuel Gracia Navarro:

Transparent governance means that citizens should have as much information as possible to influence and participate in decision-making.

New technologies have allowed access to global information.

Mr. José Cervera Gragera:

There is a distance between the daily life of citizens and governance.

A significant contradiction is the distance between economic developments and the evolution of governance.

Mss.  Mª Cruz Arcos Vargas:

The concept of governance should cover all areas of social relations.

Mr. Javier Cuenca Villén

Political advocacy has a lot to do with governance. Political influence is the ability to influence decision makers.

MAIN IDEA:

The conclusion is that citizens should receive information about governance because it is an essential factor in our society and y most people have never heard before its definition or function.

The main solution for citizens to know this significant term in our society is spread by social networks. This would be a great idea.