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+id: ethical_design_manifesto
+title: Creating solutions that respect humanity and the planet
+image_caption: humanity
+description: Respect Human Rights, Respect Human Effort, Respect Human Experience
+date: 2017-06-06
+taxonomies:
+    tags: [why]
+    categories: [threefold,why]
+extra:
+    author: kristof_de_spiegeleer
+    imgPath: ethical_design_manifesto.png
+---
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+Organizations should always respect human rights, human effort and human experience. To enable a sustainable and prosperous civilization and world, we need a strong value system.
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+*Ideas and texts were inspired from https://ind.ie/ethical-design/. We added our own twist to it.*
+
+## Respect Human Rights
+
+- **Sustainability**: It is important for a very simple reason: we cannot maintain our quality of life as human beings, the diversity of life on our planet, or Earth's ecosystems unless we embrace and protect its balance.
+- **Equality**: Everyone should have a right to learn, dream, partake and succeed. Equal access also means affordability, not ownership by big greedy companies.
+- **Decentralization**: To better distribute power, value and opportunities, we need more decentralization. Technologies and solutions should be available everywhere to improve equality and sustainability. 
+- **Openness & Interoperability**: Allows technologies to work together in an open way, without limitation, and therefore expands the possibilities for innovation and sharing.
+- **Accessibility**: Whatever the location or situation, people should benefit from easy and fast access to information and solutions.
+- **Security & Privacy**: Protect people from being put in situations of danger or exploitation. People should be empowered to be independent and they should be the sole owners of their experiences.
+
+## Respect Human Effort
+
+- **Reliability**: Make sure technologies are reliable and last longer.
+- **Simplicity**: We need to keep things simple: no unnecessary complexity - less is more.
+- **Transparency**: Let people and companies work together in a 100% transparent way.
+- **Collaboration**: It's all about the greater picture. We are stronger together and have to help each other in reaching our common visions.
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+## Respect Human Experience
+
+- **Ergonomy**: Products and solutions should empower productivity, safety and comfort, while reducing human error.
+- **Inclusiveness**: Design should always be global and inclusive. We are all equal.
+- **Design**: Products should be visually appealing and should achieve it's purpose.
+- **Transparency**: Organisational records and strategies should be accessible to everyone.
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+*Photo by Renee Fisher on Unsplash.*