It contains over 2,500 individual codes from around 1,500 different organizations, and collects both current and historical versions of these documents. The ECC seeks to provide practitioners, students, scholars and the public access to codes of ethics and guidelines and in this way inform ethical decision making in professional, entrepreneurial, scientific, and technological fields. The Ethics Co
des Collection is managed by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In January of 2016, the Center received a generous grant from the John D. MacArthur Foundation to enhance the Ethics Codes Collection. Funding from the MacArthur Foundation will provide the resources to embark on an extensive design strategy to improve the digital ECC, and will include tools such as better keyword search, sorting capabilities, comparisons, and downloading in different formats. Funding will also enable new research on the current and future roles of ethics codes within society, business, and technological innovation. This grant will help the ECC serve as a more dynamic global resource for informing ethical decision making, and inform critical research into the advancement of ethical practices in a rapidly changing world. Results from this grant will begin appearing in the collection in the next few months.
