Colleagues from WG9.2 Social Accountability and Computing took part in the Health IT workshop on “Emerging Technologies in Healthcare – Legal, Ethical, Social and Governance Aspects“ at Middlesex University in June 2025.
The proceedings are now freely available at Proceedings of the MDX 2025 Health IT Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Healthcare: Legal, Ethical, Social & Governance Aspects : Middlesex University Research Repository and includes contributions from Chris Zielenski on “The ethics of AI chatbot information: Why botfo is a new and different language and why it matters”, and Neil Gordon on “AI in health IT: Social and Ethical Considerations”.
Neil has also recently published a book, as part of a British Computer Society series, on “getting started with Tech Ethics”. You can find out more about this at Title Detail: Getting Started with Tech Ethics . The book covers topics from the concept of ethics, through to the way that computing can address global challenges as mapped to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
The WG is also supporting the 2026 HCC17 – Human Choice and Computers Conference Combined Intelligence: Human–AI Systems in Everyday Contexts event (Conference 2026 – IFIP TC9 ICT AND SOCIETY) with a track on “Human–AI Systems and the Public Interest: Accountability, Ethics, and Empowerment”. See the website for upcoming deadlines.