Reimagining an international, inclusive, and responsible science and technology policy
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GeoTech is a cross-disciplinary undergraduate research project hosted between Yale and William and Mary's Global Research Institute (GRI). Our goals are to develop research that reimagines global emerging technology strategy to be more creative, inclusive and responsible. Through a series of seminars, workshops, and events, we also aim to develop a community of practice featuring policymakers and experts within this expanding subject area.
Our Code of Ethics
As a lab focused on justice, inclusivity, and responsible science and technology practices, engaging in responsible and ethical research is core to our function and topical analysis. Written in 2024, our Code of Ethics guides how we do research, hire students, and engage with new communities.
1. Students First, Research Second: Our community and students are our main customer. We are the ones we want to do research for as GeoTech was built for our futures and curiosities. Then comes the interests of our principals, the government, policy officials, private sector, etc.
2. Bad Days = Bad Research: If a student or project lead is sick, stressed, heartbroken, or in any other form of bad emotional/physical state, GeoTech should not come in conflict with one's recovery. GeoTech should be a mutual relationship between the lead and project researchers. Project leads must take student conditions seriously.
3. Accountability: Hold us accountable. Pranav, Andy, Kate, and any future project leads are undergraduate students who – with as good as their intentions are – will likely be dumb, unfair, unjust, or worse. The promise we want to establish is that if you take the time to hold us accountable, we will do our best to actively be better.
4. Transparency & Our Lab: Project decisions are decisions that affect us all. GeoTech should be an open place driven by the community, not one or two peoples.
5. Don’t Extract Value: GeoTech should be a space where students feel comfortable and open about their own personal goals. These goals should never be preceded by the lab, but they should also be separable to create personal boundaries. The things about students' career, research interests, wants and needs that they you want to share should be our concern too: that is our job.
Our code of ethics comes inspired from the great work conducted by the CLEAR Lab and Dr. Max Liboiron of Memorial University, Canada. CLEAR and Dr. Liboiron are unique in the science and technology space for their intentional methods of directing ethical and responsible research.
[Our ethics code] is the heart that decides our bones (infrastructure), our hands (our practices), and our teeth (when we fight) - Dr. Max Liboiron
Learn More: https://civiclaboratory.nl/