Print Email Facebook Twitter Agents of responsibility: Freelance web developers in web applications development Title Agents of responsibility: Freelance web developers in web applications development Author Ahmed, M.A. Van den Hoven, J. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Department of Philosophy Date 2009-07-30 Abstract Much of the literature on responsibility in the IT field addresses the responsibilities of members of the IT profession. In this paper, we investigate to what extent the responsibilities associated with computing practitioners apply to freelance web developers. The relevant moral question is not “can freelancers be considered as professionals?”, but “are they agents of responsibility and can they cause harm”? It is obvious that they can. To justify this claim we will take the case of using free malicious code by freelance web developers and show how their actions or omissions may cause harm to the users, clients and others. We will then identify different types of responsibilities and relationships, which can be associated with freelance web. Subject freelance web developersresponsibilityagents of responsibilityhackingweb applications To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:542b098c-cfd5-4c68-8692-3ebdbc984894 Publisher Springer ISSN 1572-9419 Source Information Systems Frontiers, 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2009 Ahmed, M.A.; Van den Hoven, J. Files PDF hoven-2009.pdf 201.67 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:542b098c-cfd5-4c68-8692-3ebdbc984894/datastream/OBJ/view