Aims and Scope

helping to make computer professionals and systems designers and others aware of the social consequences of their work,
developing criteria to determine how well the public is served when it comes into contact with computerized systems,
enabling and encouraging designers and users of computer systems to make a human choice, i.e., a choice which takes into account human needs and wishes.

Those aspects of computers which affect the public interest. Among these are:

ethical issues arising out of the use of computers,
the freedom of access to information, as well as the right to privacy and to the protection of sensitive data,
shifts in the balance of power arising out of the use of computers,
the effects of computers in public and private organisations,
education of the public about computers, and of computer professionals about the effects of their work.