IntroductionIn 1995, The Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR) at De Montfort University was launched at ETHICOMP 95 conference. I was the founding director of CCSR and the creator of the ETHICOMP conference series, which quickly became an important international, interdisciplinary forum to discuss the ethical and social issues surrounding evolving digital technology. The computer ethics community, as it was then known, rapidly grew from 1995 and especially so in Europe, mainly due to ETHICOMP. These conferences were held approximately every 18 months. Nearly 400 papers were presented in the first five conferences held in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001. It became apparent that whilst special issues of extended versions of some of these papers were published in a variety of journals, there was no journal that had the same interdisciplinary perspective as ETHICOMP. It was time to launch a new academic journal, a journal that would capture, for the record, the broader issues surrounding digital technology and how these might be addressed; thus, resulting in acceptable digital technology.Discussions took place with Troubador Publishing which is an independent UK publisher based in Leicester. It was agreed that a new academic peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (originally known as Information, Communication and Ethics in Society [ICES]), would be launched at ETHICOMP 2002 in Lisbon on 13-15 November. I and CCSR Research Fellow N Ben Fairweather were the founding co-editors. A supplement to the first volume was published and given to delegates at ETHICOMP 2002. In the editorial of this launch supplement, we wrote that the computer ethics ". . .community is multidisciplinary including those from computer science, information systems, law, media, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology, and software engineering. Partnerships have been forged across disciplines in order to study and address some of the greatest challenges faced by society with the advent of the advancing information and communication technologies. Indeed, we as Editors in Chief are indicative of such partnerships. It is against this backdrop of technological advance and increasing scholarly activity that the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (ICES) has been launched. ICES is an interdisciplinary journal which addresses the social and ethical impacts of new media, and information and communication technologies. The editorial board of ICES is drawn from eminent scholars across a wide range of disciplines. The board's international membership aids ICES in promoting a cross cultural and global perspective. It is a top class refereed journal which appeals to a wide audience." (Rogerson and Fairweather, 2002, p. S3).In 2007 after four successful volumes, the journal was acquired by Emerald Publishing. It then became known by the acronym Journal of ICES (JICES). The journal's original aims remain and are reflected in the current description on the webpage, which st...
