Participation Model and Ethics

Developing tools, resources, and guidelines for online communities

An assembly is a group of members of an organization who meet periodically to make decisions about a specific area or scope of the organization.

Assemblies hold meetings, some are private and some are open. If they are open, it is possible to participate in them (for example: attending if the capacity allows it, adding points to the agenda, or commenting on the proposals and decisions taken by this organ).

Examples: A general assembly (which meets once a year to define the organisation's main lines of action as well as its executive bodies by vote), an equality advisory council (which meets every two months to make proposals on how to improve gender relations in the organisation), an evaluation commission (which meets every month to monitor a process) or a guarantee body (which collects incidents, abuses or proposals to improve decision-making procedures) are all examples of assemblies.

This assembly will investigate ethics around digital participation within this online platform to develop best practices and guidelines.

This assembly consists of investigating and proposing a model of community digital participation to the model making facet in the co-creation process. This assembly will include conversations around previous experiences of participation and engagement strategies and will allow integrating the outputs of the co-creation process.

Goals

To research and showcase examples allowing to reach conclusions that will help inDICEs define in which modules of the Observatory and in what way the communities or involved agents can participate in the research or analysis collected in the Observatory. The central activity of the assembly participants is to define the ethical framework (inDICEs Core values and strategies) for the involvement of communities and institutions in the participatory activities.
Elaborate the ethical guidelines and protocols to be aligned within the project to ensure that ethical issues will be handled throughout with the support of the external ethics board.
Examine and integrate case studies such as the Europeana Impact community