IISE held an international symposium entitled “Digital Social Responsibility: Search for a Sound Responsible Information Society” at the Japan Society in New York. The speakers included Dr. Jun Kurihara (Senior Fellow, Harvard University), Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown (Associate Professor, Pepperdine University) and Ms. Harriet P. Pearson (Vide President, IBM Corporation) and other knowledgeable participants who hold positions of social responsibility in the Internet and information communities in both Japan and USA. The participants pointed out that corporate social responsibility (CSR) of ICT businesses would be to exercise risk control over the information network so as to ensure the operational continuity of businesses and governments because services provided by the ICT businesses would be to handle information on behalf of other industries as well as to support national information infrastructure. The participants also pointed out that the ICT businesses must join hands to lead governments and communities and the global community in implementing risk control because it would be difficult for individual companies to do so with networks which had grown in complexity on a global scale. In the question and answer period that followed, many media representatives and Japanese business executives in the audience participated in lively discussion.

Panelists:
Jun Kurihara (Senior Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Charla Griffy-Brown (Associate Professor, Pepperdine University)
Harriet P. Pearson (Vice President, IBM Corporation)

Moderator:
Devin T. Stewart, Director, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs