ABSTRACT

Concerns about ethical issues in ICTD/ICT4D research have been growing in recent years, alongside calls to agree minimum ethical standards. This paper reflects on the three-year participatory process, co-facilitated by the authors, that has led to collective agreement on such a set of minimum ethical standards for ICTD/ICT4D research. The standards have been published (at http://www.ictdethics.org) under a Creative Commons licence, and are open for further comment. The current version has been endorsed by the ICTD conference series, and there is ongoing dialogue about their implementation by other conferences, journals, and funding bodies. While the standards themselves are a collective effort, in this paper the facilitators lay out their own specific thinking and approach to the co-production process that they designed and facilitated. It considers the successes, potential for further improvement, as well as critical features underpinning the standards’ legitimacy. These reflections may help guide other research communities interested in such participatory self-regulation processes.

摘要

近年来，人们对ICTD / ICT4D研究中的道德问题的关注与日俱增，并呼吁达成最低道德标准。本文回顾了作者共同推动的为期三年的参与过程，该过程导致就ICTD / ICT4D研究的此类最低道德标准达成了集体协议。这些标准已根据知识共享许可发布（在http://www.ictdethics.org上），并可供进一步评论。当前版本已得到ICTD会议系列的认可，其他会议，期刊和资助机构正在就其实施进行对话。尽管标准本身是集体努力，但在本文中，协调人针对他们设计和促进的共同生产过程提出了自己的具体思想和方法。它考虑了成功，进一步改进的潜力以及支撑标准合法性的关键功能。这些思考可能有助于指导其他对这种参与式自我调节过程感兴趣的研究社区。