Every 20 years, the development of IT has multiplied by 1000, and yet we are still at the beginning. The development entails great risks and we need to be constantly aware that high technology requires high ethics.
IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) has been working on professional codes of deontology for the last 10 years. Lessons have been derived from that experience and most probably are applicable in the general field of engineering, especially when the pending question is related to the information society.
