A Multicultural Analysis of ICT Codes of Ethics using Kohlberg’s Cognitive Moral Development Model
In this article, we investigate the philosophical and psycho sociological foundations of the concept of Information Ethics (IT/IS2 Ethics) and how they are articulated with the cultural dimension. Our aim is to discuss the global versus pluralistic conception of information ethics, which we apply in a systematic analysis of ICT codes of ethics, within a sample of 34 European and 20 African organizations. Our findings indicate that the ICT codes of ethics of the two samples present converging ethics content and that globally European and African organizations do not differ significantly in terms of their moral development positioning.