The DIREC partners aim at increasing the diversity of research groups and developing ways to educate both practicing and future computer scientists in ethical and moral reasoning. This will help them to acknowledge and interrogate the decisions they make in their efforts to develop new technologies or to apply existing solutions to new contexts.

The objectives are:

To increase the theoretical, empirical, and technological knowledge within
the area of diversity and ethics in computing, with particular emphasis on contemporary issues of gender, privacy, security and AI.

To develop effective methods for identifying potential genderrelated and ethical pitfalls and for developing roadmaps that can result in better, more diverse, ethical and trustworthy technologies and processes. Denmark is positioned to become a leader in this area as well as to produce a workforce that is capable of addressing these issues together with a high level of technical competency.

In addition to the already addressed synergies within the thematic areas of AI, data management and (cyber)security, the theme of diversity, ethics and privacy has synergies within and needs to be addressed in the other vertical themes as well. For instance, questions of how to respect diversity, ethics and privacy are naturally raised in the design of technologies for humancomputer interactions (HCI) and its subfield of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW).