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IEET’s Programs and Activities
Programs
The IEET has adopted four programmatic foci for its work.
Securing the Future Through our Securing the Future research program we intend to link with like-minded organizations working to identify and advocate for global solutions to threats to the future of civilization.
Rights of the Person Through the Rights of the Person Program we seek to engage the human rights community, legal scholars, reproductive rights activists, the transgendered community and advocates of public health approaches to illicit drugs in a campaign to deepen and broaden the concept of human rights.
Longer, Better Lives Through the Longer, Better Lives Program we seek to make the case for longer healthier lives, addressing objections to life extension, from the alleged problem of overpopulation to the threat of ennui. We will be coordinating and seeking consultation with senior citizens groups and organizations of the disabled to help them challenge ageist and ableist attitudes that discourage the full utilization of health technology.
Envisioning the Future Through the Envisioning the Future program we seek to collect images of posthumanity and non-human intelligence, positive, negative and neutral, and engage culture critics, artists, writers, and filmmakers in exploring the lessons to be derived from these cultural expressions.
Activities
The IEET has built a network of the most visionary thinkers and activists working on the policy implications of human enhancement and other emerging technologies.
Research Grants - The IEET is soliciting funds for a grants programs to support the research of IEET Fellows and interns on the ethical and policy issues of human enhancement and other emerging technologies.
Fellows and Interns – Since 2004 IEET Fellows have written hundreds of op-eds, journal articles and book chapters, and the IEET has promoted their work through the IEET website and publications. About ten interns have worked with our thirteen fellows, doing research, editing manuscripts and assisting with IEET projects.
Media outreach – Through targeted press releases and the provision of qualified spokespersons, the Institute disseminates key policy ideas that address emerging technologies. The Institute sponsors the weekly syndicated Changesurfer Radio, and will develop other educational materials for radio, television and the web.
Networking Scholars and Organizations - In each of our programmatic areas we are building a database of scholars and networking with organizations working on similar topics from similar points of view.
Conferences, Speaker Tours and Speakers Bureau - The IEET organizes several events per year – conferences and one day seminars - in Europe and North America to promote discussion of techoprogressive policy ideas. The first two IEET sponsored events were
- the last two Transvision conferences (Caracas Venezuela – July 22-24, 2005; Helsinki Finland - August 17-20, 2006) focusing on human enhancement technologies, were co-sponsored with the World Transhumanist Association
- Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights (Stanford University Law School, California USA – May 26-28, 2006), co-sponsored with the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and Stanford Center for Law and Biosciences.
- We are currently working with the International Humanist and Ethical Union to organize a conference on humanist and technoprogressive reform of international human rights documents, tentatively set for May 2007.
The IEET solicits articles from recognized experts and thinkers for publication in the IEET's Journal of Evolution and Technology, at the IEET website, in booklets, and in newspapers and magazines that reach a broad and informed audience.
White Papers In each program area we have outlined a set of position papers that need to be written that address the benefits and risks of emerging technologies.
JET Special Issues: In each area we will publish special issues of the Journal of Evolution and Technology focused on that topic.
Books Collectively IEET Fellows and staff have authored dozens of books on technoprogressive themes. We are also working on four IEET-related books:
- Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights, a volume of the papers from the 2006 HETHR meeting.
- Technoprogressive: Policies for a Brighter Future, a public policy handbook from a technoprogressive point of view, directed at everything from health care and science funding to employment, pensions and space policy.
- Cyborg Life, to be co-authored with Peter Houghton and James Hughes, will focus on the experiences of people dependent on implanted bio-mechanical devices, such as heart and insulin pumps
- Cyborg Buddha is a book project of Dr. Hughes' on the uses of neurotechnology for the enhancement of moral behavior
The Journal of Technology and Evolution is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal, publishing academic-quality research since 1998. JET welcomes submissions on subject matters that many mainstream journals shun as too speculative, radical, or interdisciplinary on all issues relating to the future prospects of the human species and its descendants. The founders felt that the time was ripe to begin to discuss such issues in a more systematic and rigorous way than is usually possible in journalistic or popular publications. Since its inception, JET has had four editors-in-chief: Dr. Nick Bostrom, Dr. Robin Hanson, Dr. Mark Walker and Dr. James Hughes.
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