All members agree to abide by the following ethical standards. Failure to do so is grounds for a Member Removal Proposal and/or restorative justice process. Ethics are both personal commitments to specific behavioral and cultural patterns within the network as well as design ethics for systems and project outcomes. - [[#Personal Ethics]] - [[#System Design Ethics]] # Personal Ethics Personal ethics refer to behavioral and cultural patterns of members. Members are encouraged to regularly engage in open and heart-felt self-and-peer reflection on their ethical practice. #### Good faith collaboration - **Strong Adherence:** Inquiring others how your project interfaces with theirs - **Weak Adherence:** Offering to include others in your project - **Strong Violation:** Demanding a member conform to your approach - Weak Violation: Subtly manipulating collaborators #### Honesty - **Strong Adherence:** Up front disclosure of all relevant information - **Weak Adherence:** Partial disclosure of information when requested - **Strong Violation:** Hiding relevant information - **Weak Violation:** Misrepresenting or manipulating information for personal interest #### Feedback and accountability - **Strong Adherence:** Inquiring the impact of your actions, asking others what you could have done better - **Weak Adherence:** Reluctantly agreeing to hear feedback from others - **Strong Violation:** Reacting angrily to feedback when shared - **Weak Violation:** Avoiding feedback and accountability #### Efficacy over ego - **Strong Adherence:** Shelving all or part of a project if another member is providing the same function with better results or more efficiently - **Weak Adherence:** Merging efforts for the same desired outcome - **Strong Violation:** Pushing a less effective or less developed project to maintain control - **Weak Violation:** Running identical projects in parallel to maintain control #### Inclusion & Listening - **Strong Adherence:** Actively engaging a wide range of members to seek their perspective - **Weak Adherence:** Remaining open to others adding their perspective - **Strong Violation:** Excluding competent members because of differences of perspective - **Weak Violation:** Hiding a project from some members # System Design Ethics System design ethics refers to the ethical considerations for the practice of civic innovation. Members 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