Besides, taking into account the growing importance of the online medium, efforts should be directed in establishing a separate Code of Ethics for Internet users.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

This session will examine some of the opportunities and challenges for Internet governance from the perspective of cyber and information ethics, particularly in the areas of identity, design and digital preservation.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Naomi Seligman Steiner, deputy director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says the rise of the Internet and 24-hour cable news has empowered the public with an "insatiable appetite" for scandal.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Edward Petry, head of the Ethics Officer Association, says the most recent issue taxing his members comes from the fad for Internet flotations.

ECONOMIST: Doing well by doing good

OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.

FORBES: TED