Kai Kimppa

MSS Kai K. Kimppa holds a masters degree in Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy in University of Turku and has defended his Doctorate Thesis in the Department of Information Technology in the same university, in Problems with the Justification of Intellectual Property Rights in Relation to Software and Other Digitally Distributable Media. He is a Lecturer at University of Turku, Finland. He has been active in the research in the field of Computer Ethics for five years, with approximately 20 publications on the ethical implications of ICT. Key areas of his research include justification of IPRs, ethics of medical informatics and ethics of online computer games. He has given presentations in both academic and business conferences, as well as at EU level. He is Secretary of IFIP Working Group 9.2 (Computers and Social Accountability) as well as IFIP Special Interest Group 9.2.2 “Taskforce on Ethics”, and a member of the Finnish Information Processing Association Ethics Group, which he also represents as a National Representative in the IFIP SIG 9.2.2.

Publications

A Call for Reflexivity in the Governance of the Finnish eGovernment System Development
A Call for Reflexivity in the Governance of the Finnish eGovernment System Development
Olli I. Heimo, Kai Kimppa. © 2013. 14 pages.
Some of these examples contain only clear mistakes and design failures which could have been – at least partially – avoided. Others, like the Case of Finnish biometric passports...
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Medical Informatics
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Medical Informatics
Penny Duquenoy, Carlisle George, Kai Kimppa. © 2008. 320 pages.
The utilization of information and communication technologies in almost all spheres of modern society has changed the social picture in significant ways while simultaneously...
Responsibility in Electronic Health: What Muddles the Picture?
Responsibility in Electronic Health: What Muddles the Picture?
Janne Lahtiranta, Kai K. Kimppa. © 2008. 27 pages.
In this chapter, we look into the potential problems arising from the use of information and communication technology (ICT) artifacts in electronic health. We focus on issues...
Intellectual Property Rights - or Rights to the Immaterial - in Digitally Distributable Media Gone All Wrong
Intellectual Property Rights - or Rights to the Immaterial - in Digitally Distributable Media Gone All Wrong
Kai Kristian Kimppa. © 2008. 10 pages.
In the light of three major ethical theories, Lockean liberalism, consequentialism, and Kantian deontology, it seems that the intellectual property rights in digitally...
Intellectual Property Rights - or Rights to the Immaterial - in Digitally Distributable Media Gone All Wrong
Intellectual Property Rights - or Rights to the Immaterial - in Digitally Distributable Media Gone All Wrong
Kai Kristian Kimppa. © 2005. 15 pages.
In the light of three major ethical theories, Lockean liberalism, consequentialism, and Kantian deontology, it seems that the intellectual property rights in digitally...
Intellectual Property Rights in Software-Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property
Intellectual Property Rights in Software-Justifiable from a Liberalist Position? Free Software Foundation's Position in Comparison to John Locke's Concept of Property
Kai Kimppa. © 2005. 16 pages.
This chapter offers a new view on how justifiable the current liberalist view on intellectual property rights (IPRs) in software actually is if based on Locke’s Second Treatise...