Virtue Ethics has a broad spectrum of characteristics and has roots dating back to ancient Greece. But its main concepts are based on acting like a virtuous person would do. That is doing intellectual and moral virtues that other human beings need to make humanity happy and prosperous. This ethical theory is widely used in IT, especially when it comes to the world's dominant web platform named World Wide Web. By using this platform people can access different resources through a web browser and gain knowledge. The mission of the World Wide Web founders was to empower humanity by giving n unlimited access to information about everything to everyone. Those ideas are the same as virtue ethics proposes, because it also stands to achieve human flourishing, and knowledge through different virtue actions. It assumes that the more moral or intellectual virtue will be done the more happiness, well-being, moral and practical wisdom it will bring to people. Those qualities make WWW a good example of virtue ethics theory usage in IT.
However, not only the web platform that is important to achieve virtual ethics. The resources on WWW and their availability to society play a crucial role. Many different websites, forums and social networks give free access to information and its exchange. People's lives have been significantly improved by free information resources like web encyclopedias, and websites about health, sports, or hobbies. People can share knowledge and improve their skills through forums, and Q&A sites. People can entertain themselves with videos and posts on social media. In my opinion, WWW and its availability of resources is one of the best examples of virtue ethics theory in IT
Sources:
https://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission
https://www.w3.org/2005/02/15-w3c-short.pdf
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