Towards an open data vocabulary for canvas driven innovation ethics

Abstract

Discussing the role of ethics in Research & Innovation is an important aspect of the technological progress we make today, and therefore contributes to sustainable development goal on industry and innovation. In this context, the task of structuring such discussions of ethics with the business processes they relate to is diffcult due to a lack of methodologies and existing use-cases. The Ethics Canvas offers a tool that uses a model based on the Business Model Canvas to struc- ture discussions around ethical implications. We present a way to relate such ethical considerations with their business process using the semantic web. This will allow an investigation of how business models and ethics affect each other, and to structure discussions around this relation. The approach also allows discovering related ethical implications through the Ethics Canvas tool for a richer discussion surrounding ethics.