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In this talk Luciano Floridi presents new research on \u2018semantic capital\u2019, which he defines as the capital of ideas, knowledge, meaning and culture, and how it can be protected and fostered by the digital. What may digital ethics do to ensure its care, protection, and development?

Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Digital Ethics Lab (DELab) of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and Chair of its Data Ethics research Group, and Chairman of the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework. He sits on the EU\u2019s Ethics Advisory Group on Ethical Dimensions of Data Protection, on the Royal Society and British Academy Working Group on Data Governance, and on Google Advisory Board on \u2018the right to be forgotten\u2019. His areas of expertise include the philosophy of information, digital ethics, and the philosophy of technology. His recent books include \u2018The Fourth Revolution \u2013 How the infosphere is reshaping human reality\u2019 (2014), \u2018The Ethics of Information\u2019 (2013), and \u2018The Philosophy of Information\u2019 (2011).