Courses

Course Objectives

By the end of this program, the participant will be able to:

• Understand digital ethics and their application to Metaverse.
• Describe the different approaches to Metaverse and their differences.
• Analyze the ethical issues related to privacy concerns and the relevance of GDPR to Metaverse.
• Describe the ethical issues related to digital identity and self-sovereign identity.
• Consider the ethical considerations for corporations and industry.
• Understand relevant ethical issues related to content ownership and control of virtual assets.
• Describe ethical issues associated with IP, trademarks, and copyrights issues for Metaverse.
• Analyze the ethical implications of the metaverse for society and its impact on the environment.
• Consider the ethical issues related to mental health and well-being impacts.

Module 1: Fundamentals of Digital Ethics

1. Digital Ethics
2. Generational Trends
3. Ethics By Design

Module 2: Introduction to Metaverse

1. Value of Metaverse
2.  Metaverse and MetaFi
3.  Metaverse Components
4.  Who is building Metaverses?
5. Metaverse Assets

Module 3: Ethics and Technology Stack

1. Data Ethics: Privacy Concerns and General Data Protection
2. Key Ethical Issues
3. Key Data Ethics Questions
4. Security
5. How will virtual crimes be considered in comparison to offline ones?
6. Data Breaches
7. Privacy
8. Ethical Data Governance
9. Digital Informed Consent
10. Data Tracking
11. Interoperability
12. Digital identity and representation

Module 4: Ethics and Metaverse Applications

1. Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and DAOs
2. DeFi governance
3. Content ownership and control of virtual assets
4. IP, Trademarks and Copyrights
5. Encoding NFT Rights
6. Intellectual Property Rights

Module 5: Metaverse, Ethics, and Society

1. Metaverse and ESG

Module 6: Ethical Considerations for Government, Companies & Users

1. What does that mean for corporations?
2.  Cloud Security
3. Institutions and Society
4. Corporate Ethics in the Digital Era
5. Ethics as a Competitive Advantage
6. Future Digital Ethics
7. Creating a Demand for Ethics
8. Ethics Governance
9. Digital Ethics Framework
10. Approaches to Digital Ethics
11. Ethical Leadership in the Digital Era