2014年4月25日，北京大学信息管理系主办了主题为“BROADBAND ETHICS”——Understanding the Ethical Impacts of History’s Most Powerful Technology的讲座。主讲人是哈佛大学教授Craig Warren Smith博士，我院2013级研究生牛丽慧参加了此次讲座。
    Smith教授的主讲内容为：
1. What is “ethics?” What is “broadband?” What is the operational definition of “broadband ethics?”
2. The arising of “applied ethics” in the digital age:
Bioethics, media ethics, information ethics – what can be learned from understanding their evolution. How broadband transcends these fields.
3. Three possible ethical impacts of broadband: Dystopian, Utopian, and “Middle Way” Impacts.
4. The problem of “technological determinism” and the obstacles to shaping ethical impacts of the internet: implications for regulators, for technology designers, for academic researchers.
5. The arising of the new field of broadband ethics: research agendas, methodologies, journals, networks, publications, and funding.
6. A Chinese perspective on broadband ethics:
7. Proposed Broadband Ethics Research Group in China (in partnership with foreign universities, e.g. Chulalongkorn University, Harvard University, National Taiwan University.
8. Discussion and next steps