What is the Data Ethics Canvas?
The Data Ethics Canvas is a tool for anyone who collects, shares or uses data.
It can help you to identify and manage ethical issues – at the start of a project that uses data, and throughout.
It encourages you to ask important questions about projects that use data and reflect on the responses. These might be:
- What is your primary purpose for using data in this project?
- Who could be negatively affected by this project?
The Data Ethics Canvas provides a framework to develop ethical guidance that suits any context, whatever the project’s size or scope.
In this half-day interactive course run by our experts you will be given an introduction to the concept of data ethics, and how to help your organisation use the ODI Data Ethics Canvas to help make better and more ethical decisions about data<replaced_element></replaced_element>
Guide (A4, print-at-home): English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch versions
This guide explains when and how to use the Data Ethics Canvas, whether for an organisation or sector, and which aspects of data practice to consider in the process.
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GitHub tool
We have created a tool on GitHub which you can use to to view different translations on both the colour and black and white versions of the Data Ethics Canvas.
We have created a tool on GitHub which you can use to to view different translations on both the colour and black and white versions of the Data Ethics Canvas.
A translation of The Data Ethics Canvas in Japanese is maintained by the Data Ethics team in the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University.
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Original source
The Data Ethics Canvas is based on the Ethics Canvas, a higher-level framework for assessing the ethical implications of any project, developed by the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology. The ADAPT Centre’s Ethics Canvas is itself based on the original Business Model Canvas by Alex Osterwalder.
‘A branch of ethics that evaluates data practices with the potential to adversely impact on people and society – in data collection, sharing and use’