Tech Stewardship

• tech stewardship is a professional identity, orientation, and practice
• tech stewards continuously discuss, refine, and imagine new ways to shape our relationship with technology for the benefit of all
• Joanna Macy in her writings about the great turning discusses three important elements that need to work together:

  • activism
  • structural change
  • shift in consciousness
• tech stewardship is about supporting our change in thinking
• tech stewardship base program:

  • focuses on our relationship with technology in the modern world and how we might bend the arc of technology towards good
  • course is applicable to all avenues of technology use and development
• tech stewardship for the energy transition:

  • focuses on our relationship to energy and the deep interconnection between energy and the technologies that use it, generate it, transmit it, and monitor it
• tech stewardship core commitments:

  • advance understanding
  • deliberate values
  • practice behaviours
• advance understanding

  • we continuously deepen our understanding of our relationship with technology, challenge dangerously limited narratives and stereotypes
• deliberate values

  • we seek to understand how our values are shaping and being shaped by the technologies we build and scale
• practice behaviours

  • we support each other to practice the daily behaviours that enable progress in all its forms, from incremental steps all the way to breakthroughs
• tech stewardship behaviours

  • purposeful
  • responsible
  • inclusive
  • regenerative
• purposeful

  • tech is not neutral
  • we imagine, design, and implement technology intentionally for positive impact
• responsible

  • the pace of tech disruption is accelerating
  • we anticipate, monitor, and manage the complex impacts of tech
• inclusive

  • who is driving tech
  • we expand who and what is considered and involved in decision making
• regenerative

  • tech is often extractive
  • we proceed in a manner that cares for the environment, economy, communities, and individuals
• tech stewardship frame work

  • our guiding star - a destination we may never meet but we always navigate towards
  • our map - creating an understanding of the territory based on the different perspectives and values
  • our compass - our practical tool for helping us navigate the terrain and use our map
  • our journey - each step we take is based on living the behaviours of responsibility, purpose, inclusivity, and regeneration