I met up with Co-op Groups Data data ethics person, yes they have one!
They are rolling out a new approach internally about using data ethically and are trying to promote this and engage the wider movement. Not sure how much interest to Co-tech people this is, but if you are doing your own work on data ethics and want me to put you in touch do.
I mentioned Co-tech exists, and they were interested in presenting it at any upcoming meet-up you organise, if there is interest. Also if your in London they are running an open session.
At Webarchitects we could do with a far better ethics policy, not because we are not ethical, but rather because we have not been very good at documenting how ethical we are.
We do have a page on Webarchitects Ethics but it doesn’t mention that we refuse to use the services of the big tech corporations, we don’t use Gmail, G Suite, GA, Microsoft 356, or any of the other products of surveillance capitalism and we offer tools to enable our clients to own and control their own data, for example:
Our shared hosting comes with self-hosted, privacy respecting, Matomo accounts so people don’t need to use Google Analytics to track the users of their sites.
We can provide clients and members with Nextcloud servers as an alternative to G Suite or Office 365.
We have a GitLab instance at git.coop for our members so they don’t have to host their code and issues on the Microsoft owned GitHub.
I’d be interested in a session on this at our gathering in Sheffield at the end of the month, @athertonjohn do you have contact details for the Co-op Groups Data data ethics person?
Anna - Datakind UK might be good people to get in touch with. I volunteer with them and they run a data ethics book club which might be a good place to meet the kind of organisations you’re looking for.