Good cheat sheets rarely contain ‘the’ answer, but rather are full of formulas or questions to help you remember. Here are two for consent and data sharing.
From the Blog on awareness
Output: Creation or Use?
Creating a toolkit, a template, any resource is relatively easy. Dissemination or getting others to use your resource is the hard part.
Marketing Policy
Creating new policies is easy. Ensuring all staff are aware of and follow a new policy is the hard part. Marketing policy is a long term endeavour.
Digital Literacy as an Objective
Many parents all over the world worry about the amount of ‘screen time’ their children have today – this is an opportunity for raising digital literacy
Bartering, not Free
Consent assumes two or more equals are engaging. When we distribute aid, we require an exchange of information for the aid. We are bartering.
Consent, Coercion and Change
Before alternatives can have relevance, we need to focus on awareness. And in one sense, awareness is about digital literacy.
Auditing Data Collection (Consent)
Audits almost always check that consent was collected. But rarely, if ever, do they check if appropriate awareness was created.
Data Lifecycle Improvements
The data lifecycle is rarely viewed from the point of view of the people we seek to serve. It is almost always thought about from the view of organisation.
Admitting we don’t care
A lot of time and energy is spent debating informed consent focusing on the consent part. What would happen if we focused on the informing part?