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TECH ETHICS START
WITH THE INDIVIDUAL
Codeland 2022 | @erinmikail
ERIN MIKAIL
STAPLESshe/her
@erinmikail
WORKING IN TECH DOESN’T MEAN
THAT OUR PERSONAL VALUES
CEASE TO EXIST.
Tech Ethics Starts with the Individual — Codeland 2022
POP CULTURE PERPETUATED
TROPES THAT ETHICS IS AN
IDEALISTIC MYTH RATHER
THAN REALITY.
ACTING PROACTIVELY AS INDIVIDUALS WE
CAN CREATE A MORE TRUSTED,
COLLABORATIVE CULTURE.
THE WAY WE WORK, LIVE AND COLLABORATE
HAS DRASTICALLY CHANGED.
PROBLEMS IN OUR
CURRENT LANDSCAPE
RELIANCE ON TOOLS, NOT PEOPLE
DESIRE TO CONNECT WITHOUT
UNDERSTANDING WHY
LACK OF TRANSPARENCY
TAUGHT TO STICK TO THE
STATUS QUO
EMBRACING THE POWER OF
THE INDIVIDUAL
INDIVIDUALS MAKE UP
COMMUNITIES.
COMMUNITIES ARE
ALL AROUND US.
COMMUNITIES MUST PROTECT
THE INDIVIDUAL TO THRIVE.
WE OFTEN BLAME
PROBLEMS ON AN
INDIVIDUAL — BUT
WHAT IF WE TOOK A
PROACTIVE STANCE?
CELEBRATING INDIVIDUAL BELIEFS
STRONG INDIVIDUAL ETHICS
EMBRACING “SEE SOMETHING,
SAY SOMETHING”
CULTURE OF CONTRIBUTION +
CONVERSATION
“Consider again that dot. That's
here, that's home, that's us. On it
everyone you love, everyone you
know, everyone you ever heard of,
every human being who ever was,
lived out their lives.”
CARL SAGAN
SHARE WHERE YOU’RE
COMING FROM.
“TRANSPARENCY IS THE NEW
OBJECTIVITY.”
David Weinberger
WHAT DOES THIS
LOOK LIKE IN
PRACTICE?
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
WHAT DON’T YOU TOLERATE?
HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE?
WHAT ARE YOUR PET PEEVES?
WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL VALUED?
IDENTIFYING YOUR OWN
PERSONAL CODE OF
ETHICS IS ESSENTIAL IN
KNOWING WHERE YOU
STAND + WHAT WILL
LEAVE YOU FULFILLED.
ORGANIZATIONAL
GOALS FOR
EMBRACING THE
INDIVIDUAL
FOSTER TRUST AND EMPATHY
CREATE REAL CONNECTION
VALUE PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE
CELEBRATE THE INDIVIDUAL
ALIGNMENT + CLARITY
NO SURPRISES
SHARE WHERE YOU’RE COMING FROM.
CREATE SPACES WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL
IS CELEBRATED.
SEEK CONVERSATION + COLLABORATION.
EMBRACE NUANCE + UNDERSTANDING.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE TECH WORLD
CAN FEEL OUT OF OUR CONTROL.
WHAT’S NOT OUT OF OUR CONTROL IS
HOW WE DEMONSTRATE OUR VALUES.
LET’S NERD
OUT TOGETHER
@erinmikail

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