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The Centre for Business Information Ethics (CBIE) is a research institute on computer ethics/information ethics set up at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan in 2006.

The CBIE is a research partner of the EU-Japan.AI (Advancing Collaboration and Exchange of Knowledge Between the EU and Japan for AI-Driven Innovation in Manufacturing) project.

The MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) Programme for Strategic Research Bases at Private Universities (2012-16) project "Organisational Information Ethics" S1291006

What's new!

• 4 July 2014: The centre hosts Asian Privacy Scholars Network 4th International Conference held on 10-11th July 2014 at the Kishimoto Tatsuo Hall, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University.

• 16 April 2012: The centre successfully got research grants!
  • The MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) Programme for Strategic Research Bases at Private Universities (2012-16) project "Organisational Information Ethics" S1291006 (principal investitgator: Kiyoshi Murata)
  • The Mext Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 24330177 "Organisational and Individual Behaviour, and Personal Information Protection in the Age of Social Media" (principal investigator: Andrew A. Adams)

• 1 April 2012: A paper was published in International Review of Information Ethics.
  • Adams, A. A., K. Murata and Y. Orito (2011), Emerging Social Norms in the UK and Japan on Privacy and Revelation in SNS, International Review of Information Ethics, Vol. 16, pp. 18-26.

• 26 July 2011: Dr Colin Bennett at Victoria University, Canada will provide his talk about privacy at Meiji University!
  • Date: Tuesday 9th August 2011
  • Venue: The First Meeting Room on the third floor of the University Hall, Meiji University
  • Programme:
    • (a) 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm: Kiyoshi Murata, "Recent topics on privacy"
    • (b) 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm: Dr Colin Bennett, "Social Networking and the Protection of Personal Privacy: What, if Anything, has Changed?"

• 28 June 2011: A joint work done by Yohko Orito and Kiyoshi Murata and a work done by Ryoko Asai will be presented at ETHICOMP 2011 held at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Orito, Y., E. Kim, Y. Fukuta and K. Murata (2011), Online Privacy and Culture: A Comparative Study between Japan and Korea.
  • Asai. R. (2011), Social Media as a Tool for Change.

• 3 June 2011: A joint work done by Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito was presented at CEPE 2011 held in Milwaukee, Wis, USA.
  • Murata，K. and Y. Orito (2011), The Right to Forget/Be Forgotten. (extended abstract)

• 1 April 2011: CBIE was awarded a research grant from the KDDI Foundation.
  • "A Comparative Study of Young People's Online Behaviour between Japan and the United Kingdom" in collaboration with Prof S. Williams and OdinLab at the University of Reading, UK.

• 31 March 2011: A paper was published in Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.
  • Orito, Y. (2011), The Counter-Control Revolution: "Silent Control" of Individuals through Dataveillance Systems, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 5-19.

• 21 December 2010： A paper was published in Entreprises et Histoire.
  • Murata, K. (2010), Lessons from the History of Information System Development and Use in Japan, Entreprises et Histoire, No. 60, pp. 50-61.

• 21 December 2010: Two papers were published as chapters of Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation published from IGI Global.
  • Murata, K. (2011), Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Japanese Organisations: A Socio-cultural Perspective on Ba, in Da Costa, G. J. M. (Ed.), Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 1-16.
  • Takahashi, Y. (2011), The Importance of Balancing Knowledge Protection and Knowledge Interchange, in Da Costa, G. J. M. (Ed.), Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 180-198.

• 28 September 2010: A paper was published in Computers and Society.
  • Murata, K. and Y. Orito (2010), Japanese Risk Society: Trying to Create Complete Security and Safety Using Information and Communication Technology, Computers and Society, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 38-49.

• 25 September 2010: Two papers were published in Special Issue on Intercultural Information Ethics of International Review of Information Ethics.
  • Asai, R. (2010), NEKAMA Men Living Different Lives on the Internet, International Review of Information Ethics, Vol. 13, pp. 12-19.
  • Murayama, K., T. T. Lennerfors and K. Murata (2010), Winny and the Pirate Bay: A Comparative Analysis of P2P Software Usage in Japan and Sweden from a Socio-cultural Perspective, International Review of Information Ethics, Vol. 13, pp. 20-25.

• 14-16 April 2010: Three papers were presented at　ETHICOMP 2010.
  • Murata, K., Information Ethics and Culture: Revisiting Traditional Japanese Ethical Values (Keynote).
  • Murata, K. and Y. Orito, Japanese Risk Society: Trying to Create Complete Security and Safety Using Information and Communication Technology.
  • Asai, R. and K. Murata, Work-life Balance in the Japanese Information and Communication Technology Industry: Who Thwarts Female Workers' Career Development?

• 12 March 2010: Professor Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos of Uppsala University joined the International Advisory Board.

• 5 March 2010: Special Issue on Information Ethics of Journal of Information and Management Kiyoshi Murata edited was published. The issue contains five English papers.
  • Preface (in Japanese)

About the Centre

Research at the Centre

　 Papers

　 Academic Conferences

• CEPE 2011

• ETHICOMP 2011

　 Funded Research

• The KDDI Foundation-Funded Research
  • "A Comparative Study of Young People's Online Behaviour between Japan and the United Kingdom" in collaboration with Prof S. Williams and OdinLab at the University of Reading, UK.
    • 1st April 2011 - 30th June 2012

• JIPDEC-Funded Research
  • "Research on Information Systems Which Respond to Industrial and Social Requirements" (in Japanese)
    • 1st April 2008 - 31st March 2009

• JIPDEC-Funded Research
  • "Reseach on Information System Development in Japan" (in Japanese)
    • 1st April 2007 - 31st March 2008

International Cooperation

　 International Advisory Board

　 International Cooperative Research

• Study to examine Japanese and British attitudes to online privacy

Contact us Centre for Business Information Ethics Global Front 408A, Meiji University 1-1, Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda Tokyo 101-8301 Japan Tel/Fax +81 3 3296 4163 Email ethicj@kisc.meiji.ac.jp

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