Ethics & Protocols

Our ethical framework describes the CCRP's purpose, values and principles, and operates as a roadmap for good decision making, and a tool for reasoning whether decisions made provide outcomes in line with CCRP values & principles.

 

These are signed up to by those joining the programme agree to the CCRP code of  conduct agreement on all aspects of the ethical framework & ongoing discussion and incremental additions/improvements to the framework are constantly made.​ - 

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Values: 
- The CCRP is  committed to Open, Transparent, Non-competitive, Collaborative, Practical, Inclusive, High quality, & Generous Spirited Research.

 

Purpose and principles:
-We work to benefit society by providing open microspatial data on the physical & environment, to support UN SDG related problem solving and to improve the quality, efficiency, sustainability and resilience of natural landscapes and building stocks. 
- We promote high ethical standards in microspatial data collection and management, identify regulatory need,  & work across countries to foresee & address security & privacy concerns. 
 

Data Ethics Policies:​
- Our ethics policies guide how open microspatial data are collected, structured,  visualised and released within our platforms
- Our policies also mitigate potential negative impacts of specific data release,  for platform users and building occupiers. ​

Codes of Conduct​

- Our Codes of conduct must be signed up to by platform users as well as partners to ensure the respectful operation of the platform network. These are adapted from a range of relevant existing guidelines (see below)--    ​

 

​Platform protocols & guidelines

- Our CCRP Protocols for Platform management are designed for CCRP academic leads  managing data platforms and data, with additional protocols for the CCRP International Operations Group & CCRP Global Region Hubs

- Specific Guidelines for CCRP platforms relate to data class additions & data moderation 

 

 

​Other relevant frameworks:

- We draw from many other frameworks & principles including: Open Data Institute's principles for Data & Infrastructure;. The Open Knowledge Institute's Open Data Charter; The Gemini Principles for built environment data; The Locus Charter; FAIR;  GDPR, The Matrix Foundation's Data Principles for decentralised secure communications, The United Nations New Urban Agenda, & The Declaration of Human Rights. 

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 Full details of protocols, codes of conduct and data sharing agreements forming part of the CCRP ethical framework can be accessed here. 

 

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