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A place for visiting scholars and academics to support crews on the journey.

Let’s get to know each other a bit better with some brief introductions. I’ll start…

I’m Mat, the co-founder of Tethix and one of the light keepers that will be facilitating live sessions. I’m based in Sydney Australia and I’ve got a background in applied ethics in tech amongst other things. I’m excited to learn what works and what doesn’t with…

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Yeah, the institution’s framework is publicly available (could potentially be a bit buried unless you are looking for it, but it is public facing). It is fairly newish (last 3 years or so) but the design appears to be mainly about ‘indemnity of liability’ for the institution. Possibly that could be an unfair criticism, in large and diverse…

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This is fairly common where a framework is designed for the institution. Is the framework being used publicly available?

For my research I am required to abide by two distinct data ethics frameworks (CARE Principles and the instition’s enterprise data ethics framework). I feel that there is a mismatch between frameworks which ultimately priveleges the institution. Although there is some overlap between the frameworks, when there are gaps, they are often large…

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Yes. Our focus initially was on public governance, civic institutions and regulators. So that worked well for them. Perhaps I should adapt that for businesses or make it more adaptable wording?

Thanks Nathan, yes, interesting. I think also the research says that competence failures are forgiven more readily than values failures, particularly integrity and fairness.

It seems so obvious what to do, but as it is so noticeable when it happens it must be harder than I think it is to rectify. Perhaps it is a resource problem, or they just…

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There are more than I can count. The biggest one for me is often a competence failure. This happens all the time. It happened very recently with a federal government service. There was seemingly no recourse. The system simply didn’t work. Although we made progress in the end, there was a lack of “consequence ownership” (something Mat and I have…

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My experience attempting to ‘operationalise’ the 7 signals is that integrity has plenty of challenging qualities. Not in its entirety, but in part because being “impartial” plays a role. IMO no one is ever impartial, independent or free of vested interests. Which, actually maps to some of the other signals. So, if what I’m saying has at least a…

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I’ve gotten to the point where I prioritise intent, openness, fairness, respect, integrity and inclusion over competence. This is to say that the why matters more than the what (to me, based on my worldview). I am more trusting of organisations that I believe in, even if – relative to organisations with a comparable value proposition – they are…

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The vaccine example really is relevant for folks here down under. I recall first talking to Mat about then “Wuhan flu” when we were flying to SF in early Jan, 2020. I didn’t imagine we’d be where we are today… With that, I’ve paid reasonably close attention to the vaccine development process. I’ve attempted to deepen my understanding of the…

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The ethical review process in academia is usually quite rigourous. Though it does sometimes seem overly burdensome.

I think that we need to acknowledge that the ethical decision making process happens within our choice environment that comes with certain constraints. Time, budget, internal politics, KPIs and incentives etc. This is touched upon in…

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My scenario is typically proactive: for one of my research projects , I’ve gathered thousands of tweets (eg for sentiment analysis) thus personal data that I have to collect, store and (re)share securely in compliance with research ethics and the GDPR. Moreover minors’ data can be easily gathered without the possibility of filtering it out. E…

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