Nowadays, in a world of “uberisation”, the socio-economic and human impact of technologies has become global. There is a critical lack of
knowledge concerning ethical practices and solutions outside of the English-speaking world and proper international governance of technology is
still pending. Furthermore, ongoing technological development affects us on increasingly intimate levels. Genomic interventions, one of the
technologies ETHIKTECH will focus on, require not only to be “clean technologies” but also a global deliberation on the reasons why we should
apply these technologies, the impacts on our way of living and thinking and their associated risks. This calls for in-depth analysis of the impact of
human-machine interactions on our mode of living in order to preserve human autonomy and human vulnerability. The underlying will to refurbish
nature and life raises the question of whether a new version of humanity is emerging which would necessarily challenge the global framework of
ethics of technologies with human rights relevance. Digitisation allow the global research arena to become more accessible and responsive to
societal stakeholders and societal concerns. These developments call for a strategy to involve creators, distributors and users of technologies in
the building of truly international ethical framework. ETHIKTECH will elaborate operational guidelines for research ethics committees and propose
a code of responsible conduct for researchers which will address this conundrum. The ethics of ETHIKTECH will give the floor to usually neglected
voices; organise a bottom-up and top-down transfer of experience between citizens and experts from EU/non EU countries; enable new forms of
ethical dialogue thanks to enhanced translation and communication tools; provide Crowd ethics-driven guidelines and disseminate human rights
principles on a local case-law basis.