System design ethics refers to the ethical considerations for the practice of civic innovation. Participants are encouraged to regularly engage in open and heart-felt self-and-peer reflection on their systemic design ethics. - **Resilience** - Strong Adherence: Designing fractally with redundancies of key functions at all scales - Weak Adherence: Designing partial redundancy at some scales - Strong Violation: Designing systems that are dependent on large centralized functions - Weak Violation: Designing systems that partially rely on some centralized functions - **Vitality** - Strong Adherence: Designing holistically for all levels of human and ecological well-being through regenerative feedback loops - Weak Adherence: Designing for some levels of human and ecological well-being - Strong Violation: Designing extractive processes that deplete human or ecological well-being - Weak Violation: Disregarding some aspects of well-being in process design - **Choice** - Strong Adherence: Designing inclusive mechanisms of self-authorship and community ownership at the protocol level - Weak Adherence: Providing informed consent when direct self-authorship and community ownership is not included - Strong Violation: Designing walled gardens with no exit and no self-authorship or ownership - Weak Violation: Designing open source plugins for a walled garden ecosystem