Seoul Digital Foundation Publishes Report on 'Importance of Metaverse Ethics and Response Strategies'

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Digital Foundation has published a report titled "The Importance of Metaverse Ethics and Response Measures" as a proactive step to address ethical issues in the metaverse. The report emphasizes the importance of metaverse ethics and proposes institutional, educational, and technological measures to respond to ethical challenges.

According to the Seoul Digital Foundation on the 21st, this report serves as foundational research for establishing metaverse ethics guidelines that the foundation is preparing. It aims to raise awareness of the need for guidelines by presenting the characteristics of the metaverse and ethical case studies in an accessible way for citizens. The Seoul Digital Foundation plans to publish the metaverse ethics guidelines by the end of November to promote the activation of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Metaverse Seoul platform.

The main contents of the report define the characteristics of the metaverse as ▲non-face-to-face communication ▲avatars and communities ▲immersive content, and introduce ethical issue cases such as ▲portrait rights infringement ▲verbal violence ▲privacy exposure according to each characteristic, showing directions for establishing ethical systems suitable for the metaverse.

As measures to respond to ethical issues, the report suggests ▲preparing metaverse ethics guidelines ▲developing literacy programs ▲technical prevention by platforms, recommending the complementary application of these measures to create a healthy metaverse usage environment.

Detailed information on the importance of metaverse ethics and response measures is available in the “Knowledge Information” section on the Seoul Digital Foundation website. Kang Yo-sik, Chairman of the Seoul Digital Foundation, stated, “With the establishment of the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Metaverse Seoul platform, the Seoul Digital Foundation will proactively respond by establishing ethics guidelines to foster a sound usage culture for public administration metaverse platforms.”

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