This file collects materials related to pledges and similar aspirational statements regarding values like sustainability, openness, diversity and ethics, particularly in the context of research, teaching and academia.
Update: There is now a dedicated repo at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/pledges that contains information about pledges I made. I will try to move more information from here to there.
- Moved over to pledges FAQ.
- Values and how well we live up to them, or even how we rank them
- diversity (e.g. manels)
- ethics
- signed the Data Values and Principles on August 5, 2020
- similar proposed oath
- openness
- sustainability (e.g. as per Position Statement on Economic Growth, which I signed on 28 June 2019)
- cover all aspects of research, teaching and academic community service
- collaboration (e.g. dependencies on behaviour of others)
- distinguish between roles in collaboration (e.g. PI, first author)?
- community service (e.g. reviewing)
- patents?
- FAIR
- e.g. ORCID
- version controlled
- simple
- modular
- easily forkable
- openly licensed
- have some obligatory components
- allow for publicly documented exceptions
- e.g. as in this vision for a scientific journal of the future, which states:
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"Flexibility: Innovation is stifled by inflexible rules. Exceptions to the above rules are possible if justified in public."
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- e.g. as in this vision for a scientific journal of the future, which states:
- be integrated into strategies around hiring, promotion, diversity, reproducibility, FAIR etc.
- contain provisions for regular (yearly or so) review — GitHub does it semi-annually
- transition phase
- How to integrate pledges with applicable workflows
- forms for operationalizing values
- badges as in some journals for data sharing
- contracts
- evaluation rubrics
- openness facilitates reporting
- Twitter search for examples
- ethical matrix
- The Ethical Matrix, A Framework For Ethical Debates
- analysed in Technology assessment and the'ethical matrix'
- they propose to add another row for future geenrations and to replace the "justice" column with a "solidarity" one
- analysed in Technology assessment and the'ethical matrix'
- Scholia
- The Ethical Matrix, A Framework For Ethical Debates
- What can research institutions do to encourage open science?
- Pledges at Ask Open Science
- Grimpact – Time to acknowledge the dark side of the impact agenda
- The ‘Welcome Letter’: A Useful Tool for Laboratories and Teams
- Urban Institute's Funding Principles
- GitHub's site policies
- includes the bug bounty policy
- Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist
- The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
- What values do you live by?
- "Transparency is openness in only one direction"
- followed by "being given a dashboard without a steering wheel has never been the core promise a democracy makes to its citizens"
- Geschäftsmodell des Teilens — about a business model based on the free sharing of materials resulting from freelance work
- Land acknowledgement pledge
- Critical Engineering Manifesto