Responsible and Inclusive Technology Framework: A Formative Framework to Promote Societal Considerations in Information Technology Contexts
Juana Catalina Becerra Sandoval, Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Sara, Berger, Lauren Thomas Quigley, Stacy Hobson

TL;DR
This paper introduces the Responsible and Inclusive Technology Framework, aiming to promote societal considerations and ethical reflection in technology development and use, especially within industry contexts.
Contribution
It presents a formative framework that emphasizes social context, power dynamics, and cultural values in technology creation to foster responsible and inclusive practices.
Findings
Framework encourages critical reflection on social impacts
Promotes socially-grounded practices in industry settings
Bridges responsibility-principles gap in technology development
Abstract
Technology development practices in industry are often primarily focused on business results, which risks creating unbalanced power relations between corporate interests and the needs or concerns of people who are affected by technology implementation and use. These practices, and their associated cultural norms, may result in uses of technology that have direct, indirect, short-term, and even long-term negative effects on groups of people and/or the environment. This paper contributes a formative framework -- the Responsible and Inclusive Technology Framework -- that orients critical reflection around the social contexts of technology creation and use; the power dynamics between self, business, and societal stakeholders; the impacts of technology on various communities across past, present, and future dimensions; and the practical decisions that imbue technological artifacts with…
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TopicsInnovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Open Source Software Innovations
