I saw https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2015SummerDevMeet... and it notes "Create thread on tor-dev." I couldn't find that thread.
But since the below is relevant for this, I figured I'd forward it here.
He says not to be intimidated by the length of the document, but I am anyway. Unsurprisingly the tl;dr section was the most appealing to me: http://networkedsystemsethics.net/index.php?title=Networked_Systems_Ethics#S...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bendert Zevenbergen bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk Date: 3 May 2016 at 10:08 Subject: [OTF-Talk] Launching Ethics Guidelines
Dear All,
Today I’m launching the outcome of my OTF information controls fellowship on the Ethics of Networked Systems Research: http://networkedsystemsethics.net. Here a short explanation:
These Networked System Ethics guidelines aim to underpin a meaningful cross-disciplinary conversation between gatekeepers of ethics standards and researchers about the ethical and social impact of technical Internet research projects.
At heart of this work is the iterative reflexivity methodology that guides stakeholders to identify and minimize risks and other burdens. These must be mitigated to the largest extent possible by adjusting the design of the project before data collection takes place.
The aim is thus to improve the ethical considerations of individual projects, but also to streamline the proceedings of ethical discussions in Internet research (or product development) generally.
The primary audience for these guidelines is technical researchers (e.g. computer science, network engineering, as well as social science) and gatekeepers of ethics standards at institutions, academic journals, conferences, and funding agencies. It would be great if these guidelines do get used beyond academic research in civil society, product development, or otherwise.
This is not just my work, but these guidelines were developed in cooperation with many great people who attended workshops worldwide. Here’s a workshop report and a case study that show how this work developed:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2666934
http://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/case-study-no-encore-for-encore/
I’m very interested to hear if you have applied these guidelines to your projects, or whether you have comments on this work! Feel free to forward this email..!
Many thanks to OTF for making this possible and their excellent support!
Ben
------------------------------------------------ Ben Zevenbergen DPhil (PhD) Candidate Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Senior Fellow Open Technology Fund