This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Felipe Ribeiro
Open ethics is the most important field for secure operations development (DevSecOps) according to my experience as a policymaker in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), United Nations Education Science Culture Organization (UNESCO) Universities Twinning and Networking (UNITWIN) Cybernetics Chair, International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), Open Data Institute (ODI), Creative Commons (CC), Wikimedia Movement, and Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Movement.
It is becoming a buzz, not only in the high commissariats of us from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), but also as the best solution for the problems appearing concerning machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) data regulation by respected projects like the Open Data Initiative (ODI) and the Open Ethics AI.
The idea of an open source culture itself can be traced as the genesis of open ethics, in the seminal texts of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) like ‘FLOSS and FOSS’ which founded the juridical study of open licenses, open standards, and open file formats.
But open ethics truly got traction with the Ethical Source movement that developed the Contributor Covenant, which was the first open source code of conduct for communities to allow forks like the Canonical Ubuntu Code of Conduct. Without it we wouldn’t have made possible the growth of online projects to the size it is now, and there would be no Forem Dev at all because everyone would be fighting.
Apart from the urgent ethical licenses, like the First Do No Harm Hippocratical License we also have the technological pledges that require us to publicly promote universal values, most in compliance with the ‘Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR)’. The one I find more useful are the Tech Pledge and Pledge No Hate in Tech, that invite us developers to assume our role in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of our projects, but there are a lot of others concerning specific issues of security, operability, and development.
The Building Humane Tech project is asking for those who can to share humane technology examples with them to map this important ecosystem further, so please help if you can.
Do you have any recommendations of open ethics tools, methodologies, pledges, websites, or databases?
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Felipe Ribeiro