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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on Ethics

Solving the Challenges of the Agenda 2030

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Editors:
  1. Katharina Miller

    1. President European Women Lawyers Association, Founding Partner 3C Compliance, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Karen Wendt

    1. CEO. Eccos Impact GmbH, President of SwissFinTechLadies, Cham, Zug, Switzerland

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  • Explores the basis for sustainable investment decisions in businesses of the 4th Industrial Revolution
  • Promotes life-long learning and education on gender equality to eliminate gender stereotypes and unconscious bias
  • Introduces best practise through business cases

Part of the book series: Sustainable Finance (SUFI)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Addressing the Ethical and Social Challenges of Emerging Technologies: Creating the Conditions to Play a Leadership Role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • Geneviève Tanguay
    Pages 1-13

  3. Essential Change Factors to Enhance Integrity Competitiveness

    • Angela Joo-Hyun Kang
    Pages 15-31

  4. Corporate Governance and Gender Diversity in Europe: A Strategic Win-Win Opportunity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • Adoración Pérez Troya
    Pages 33-55

  5. How Businesses Can Impact Agenda 2030

    • Larisa B. Miller
    Pages 57-64

  6. Women and Ethics During the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • Ángeles Heras Caballero
    Pages 65-69

  7. Beyond Gender: From Individuals to Structures

    • Kathrin Tietze
    Pages 71-85

  8. We All Have to Lean in… Ageism and What Can We Do to Be More Inclusive in a Digitised World?

    • Dace L. Luters-Thümmel
    Pages 87-93

  9. 4IR’s Ethical Impact and the Role of Women

    • Andrea Accuosto Suárez
    Pages 95-114

  10. Digital Equity and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    • Cheryl Miller Van Dÿck
    Pages 115-120

  11. Gender in Engineering: Assessing Women’s Performance in University Education

    • Montserrat Cabré, Josefina Fernández, Tomás A. Mantecón
    Pages 121-137

  12. Challenges of Education in the 4th Industrial Revolution

    • Ángela López, Elena Ibáñez
    Pages 139-150

  13. It’s Personal: 4IR and the Future of Learning

    • Vidisha Mishra, Gergana Vladova
    Pages 151-158

  14. Quality Education by Investment

    • Katharina Schüller
    Pages 159-182

  15. Financing of Start-Ups via Initial Coin Offerings and Gender Equality

    • María de la Concepción Chamorro Domínguez
    Pages 183-197

  16. Sustainability and Non-discrimination: The Only Possible Path for the Proper Development of Smart Cities and Smart Territories

    • Magdalena Suárez Ojeda
    Pages 199-214

  17. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on Ethics: The New Luddites

    • H. R. H. Queen Zaynab Obanor
    Pages 215-224

  18. The Future of Work: Opportunities and Challenges Under German Legislation

    • Maria Dimartino
    Pages 225-240

  19. Human Rights in the Digital Era: From Digital Practice to Digital Law and Case Law

    • Verica Trstenjak
    Pages 241-251

  20. 4IR and Ethical Impacts: Startups Ecosystems and Gender Equality

    • Gloria Lorenzo, Yolanda Díaz Villarrubia, Regina Llopis
    Pages 253-266
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About this book

This book tackles the ethical problems of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR) and offers readers an overview of the ethical challenges connected to Artificial Intelligence (AI), encryption and the finance industry. It specifically focuses on the situation of females in these industries, from women lawyers, judges, attorneys-at-law, investors and bankers, to portfolio managers, solicitors and civil servants. As the 4IR is more than “just” a technology-driven transformation, this book is a call to policymakers and business leaders to harness new technologies in order to create a more inclusive, human-centered future. It offers many practical cases of proactive change agents, and offers solutions to the ethical challenges in connection with implementing revolutionary disruptive products that often eliminate the intermediary. 
In addition, the book addresses sustainable finance in startups. In this context, education, training, agility and life-long learning in financial literacy are some of the key solutions highlighted here. The respective contributors supply a diverse range of perspectives, so as to promote a multi-stakeholder approach. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • President European Women Lawyers Association, Founding Partner 3C Compliance, Brussels, Belgium

    Katharina Miller

  • CEO. Eccos Impact GmbH, President of SwissFinTechLadies, Cham, Zug, Switzerland

    Karen Wendt

About the editors

Katharina Miller is a committed non-executive member of various corporate boards (Sustainable Panel of Telefónica, Spain, KOKORO World Trends SICAV, Spain, PANDA GmbH, Germany, and Assurance Services GmbH, Germany), with an extensive legal, operational and risk management experience. She is a qualified lawyer in Germany and Spain with over 10 years of international practice across Western Europe, founding partner of the corporate compliance & ethics legal boutique 3C Compliance, an adjunct professor at various compliance & data protection courses, ambassador of the Global Leadership Academy, Germany, president of European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) and a delegate for Spain at the G20/W20. 


Karen Wendt merges 20 years investment banking with social and green economy finance, leadership 4.0, design thinking and ideation. She implements value based decision making, choice architecture and theories of change and advises on Sustainable Development Goals Economics (SDG Economics) in her programme scaling4impact. She is also the president of the SwissFinTechLadies with the mission to close the female funding gap. As an expert at CV Labs’ blockchain incubator and F10 accelerator, she helps startups learn about sustainable financial innovation, ecosystem building and scaling their impact.


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