Ethical challenges of an Italian hub of cultural resilience: MNEMONIC platform

This study focuses on computer ethics and its relationship with the Cultural Natural Heritage (CNH) domain. The research critically considers the concept of digitalization in the context of heritage to explore the ethical dilemmas that are introduced when cultural heritage values are combined with digital technologies. To this end, by utilizing an established framework, the study examines the social and ethical aspects of a digital cultural heritage platform, “MNEMONIC: Italian hub of cultural resilience”. The digital Atlas of MNEMONIC networks makes available a picture of the tangible and intangible heritage of urban open spaces, memory institutions, and their cultural activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research findings emphasized the issues of accessibility, copyright, privacy, and cybersecurity as the most serious ethical dilemmas of the MNEMONIC platform. Hence, the study proposes several alternative solutions to alleviate those dilemmas. The research improved the current understanding of the main ethical issues of the MNEMONIC digital cultural heritage platform, allowing the development of a fair digital environment.