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Start using the online Ethics Canvas without registration, and export your work in PDF or JSON format.
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Work offline. Download a printable version of the Ethics Canvas to use it in workshops. Need help? Download the handbook for further details and examples.
Download as PDFHOW IT WORKS
The Ethics Canvas helps you structure ideas about the ethical implications of the projects you are working on, to visualise them and to resolve them.
Add cards with your ideas to the fields of the canvas. Drag and drop cards to different fields. Link cards to each other, for instance specific stakeholders to specific ethical concerns. The Canvas is dynamic and will adapt to your workflow.
You’ll get an overview of the most prominent ethical concerns of your project by glancing at the canvas. No complicated setup or configuration is required; just plug and play!
ABOUT THE ETHICS CANVAS
The Ethics Canvas has been developed to encourage educators, entrepreneurs, engineers and designers to engage with ethics in their research and innovation projects. Research and innovation foster great benefits for society, but also raise important ethical concerns.
The big data revolution raises important privacy concerns. Progress in automation such as self-driving cars raises responsibility issues. Sharing platforms trigger social conflicts and precarious workers protesting on the streets.
These and other concerns need to be dealt with, but cannot be dealt with by ethicists alone. Identifying and solving ethical concerns needs a collaborative effort, with people from different disciplines and in different professional roles working together.
The Ethics Canvas responds to this need, by providing an easy to use collaborative tool that assists in the identification, analysis and solving of ethical implications in research and innovation projects. It is both suitable for offline use, as a paper canvas, and for online use, as an online collaborative tool.
OUR VALUES
Driven by Conviction, Not by Money
We are a non-profit organisation. We work on the canvas for the purpose of empowering people, not for making money.
Inclusive Design
We believe that the Ethics Canvas should be accessible to everyone. Therefore, joining is free. Also, the Ethics Canvas has a Creative Commons license. With proper attribution, everyone is able to use, modify and reuse the Ethics Canvas.
Subscribing to the Open Source Principles
The online Ethics Canvas is an open source project, which means that the code is openly available. We support and adhere to the open source principles of transparency, participation and collaboration.
Responsible Use of Personal Data
As a platform that tries to promote ethics, our core priority is to focus on ethical data handling. Explicit consent for the use of personal data will always be asked, with clear and simple terms and conditions. Personal data will only be gathered for research purposes and community building purposes, never for commercial purposes.
No third party exchange of personal data will happen through our online platform.
MEET THE TEAM
A team of researchers in the ADAPT Centre has developed the Ethics Canvas. It is the result of a truly multidisciplinary effort, pulling together expertise from the areas of ethics, computer science and business development.
Wessel Reijers
Concept developer, ethics
wessel@ethicscanvas.org
Wessel is doing research in the areas of philosophy and ethics of technology in the ADAPT Centre. His main focus is on how to integrate ethics in the practices of research and innovation.
Currently, he is working on developing a theoretical, narrative approach to understand how technologies mediate human relations. Also, he works on a practical application of his research in the so-called "ethics canvas", which is a tool for researchers to explore ethical issues.
David Lewis
Coordinator
dave@ethicscanvas.org
Dave is a Research Lecturer in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. He moved to TCD in 2002 from University College London where he worked for 11 years as a Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department.
Dave's research interests are in the Semantic Modelling and Policy-Based Management in self-managing networks, services and organisations.
Dr.Killian Levacher
Concept developer, ethics
killian@ethicscanvas.org
Dr. Killian Levacher is a post-doctoral researcher at the ADAPT Centre, based in Trinity College the University of Dublin (TCD). His research focuses upon advancing the state of the art in the area of Deep Learning NLP within the context of Personalised Siri-like Dialogue Systems.
Prior to joining the ADAPT centre, Killian obtained an MSc and PhD in TCD, for which he received multiple academic awards (best research thesis and best academic results)
Arturo Calvo
Concept developer and business developer
arturo@ethicscanvas.org
Arturo is a software professional with experience in the industry and in academia. As a Software Architect at ADAPT Centre, he coordinates the overall technology of a set of research projects ranging from Machine Learning to Ethics.
Passionate about entrepreneurship and technology, he is very active in the Dublin startup ecosystem. Arturo founded three companies in the past, and he is CTO of a new one: Sedicii. He is the main organiser of the Machine Learning Dublin meetup group.
Farnoosh Mohri
Front-end developer and Interaction Designer
farnoosh@ethicscanvas.org
Farnoosh is a front-end developer and interaction designer. She has a great passion for technology and how it can empower us as humans. She has studied web and multimedia development and she has been involved in different design and development projects with start-ups at Innovation Park in Sweden.
Farnoosh believes that our global digital connection and engagement is a crucial part of the human experience. She has joined the Online Ethics Canvas team at ADAPT Centre, as a wish to create new possibilities through innovative digital content, and contribute to a better world.
