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WHAT IS THIS PROJECT?
Data for Democracy with Omidyar, Bloomberg, BrightHive to develop a code of ethics for the data community. This code hopes to define values and priorities for overall ethical behavior, in order to guide the data community to be a thoughtful, responsible agent of change. The code of ethics is being developed through a community-driven approach.
By hosting discussions among data community we hope to better capture the diverse interests, needs, and concerns that are at play in the community, and put together a code that is truly created by the data community, for us, the data community.
Data for Democracy’s Global Data Ethics Pledge is a global initiative aimed at creating the industry’s most widely adopted framework and community for ethics in data science.
- I COMMIT TO FAIRNESS
- I COMMIT TO OPENNESS
- I COMMIT TO RELIABILITY
- I COMMIT TO TRUST
- I COMMIT TO SOCIAL BENEFIT
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Fairness:
I will make make a dedicated effort to understand, mitigate and communicate the presence of bias in both data practice and consumption.
Openness:
I will practice humility and openness. Transparent practices, community engagement, and responsible communications are an integral part of my data ethics practice.
Reliability:
I will ensure that every effort is made to glean a complete understanding of what is contained within data, where it came from, and how it was created. I will also extend this effort for future users of all data and derivative data.
Trust:
I wish to build public confidence in data practitioners. I will make every effort to use data and algorithms in ways that maximize the informed participation of people around the world.
Social Benefit:
I set people before data and intend to be responsible for maximizing social benefit and minimizing harm. I will consider the impact of my work on communities of people, other living beings, ecosystems and the world-at-large.
Commit to the Pledge and help us build a movement that collectively works towards a more accountable, equitable, open, inclusive, and transparent data community. The more of us who commit to The Pledge and adopt these principles, the more leverage we have to create change in the collective work we produce and how we produce it. We can affect hearts and minds and drive policy to a better place for all.
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- Its my job to understand, mitigate and communicate the presence of bias in algorithms.
- Be responsible for maximizing social benefit and minimizing harm.
- Practice humility and openness.
- I will know my data and help future users know it as well.
- Make reasonable efforts to know and document its origins and document its transformation.
- Bias will exist. Measure it. Plan for it.
- Thou shalt document transparently, accessibly, responsibly, reproducibly, and communicate.
- Engaging the whole community. Do you have all relevant individuals engaged?
- People before data - data scientists should use a question driven approach rather than a data-driving or methods approach. Consider personal safety and treat others the way they want to be treated.
- Exercise ethical imagination.
- Open by default - use of data should be transparent and fair.
- I will not over/under represent findings.
- You are part of an ecosystem understand context and provenance.
- Respecting human dignity.
- Respect their data even more than your own. Understand where its sources and think about the consequences of your actions.
- Protecting individual and institutional privacy.
- Diversity for inclusivity.
- Attention to bias.
- Respect for others/persons.
- Be intentional as you work to create value.