- Relevant Documents and Resources
- Locus Charter; ethical & responsible use of location data
- Ethics checklist for use of geospatial data for analysis and statistics
- Good Practice Principles for Data Ethics in the Public Sector; OECD
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024; laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (Artificial Intelligence Act)
- Ethics and AI; Tackling biases hidden in big data
- European Values for Ethics in Digital Technology – Research Report
- SATORI aims to develop a common European framework for ethical assessment of research and innovation http://satoriproject.eu
- A Geoprivacy by Design Guideline for Research Campaigns That Use Participatory Sensing Data. Ourania Kounadi and Bernd Resch Journal of Empirical Research of Human Research Ethics 2018/04/23
- Privacy and personal data protection in Africa; a right based survey of lesgislation
- Relevant Policies and Codes of Conduct
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
- UT Research Ethics Policy
- ITC Research Data Management Policy
- UT Privacy Policy
- Integrity policies at the University of Twente; an integrated perspective on integrity and a plan of action
OTHER CODES OF CONDUCT OF IMPORTANCE
The International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) promotes geoethics through international collaboration with Associations and Institutions. IAPG is a multidisciplinary, scientific platform for widening the discussion and creating awareness about problems of ethics applied to the geosciences.
The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity 2018 describes clear standards that researchers in many research organisations can apply to their daily practices.
According to the Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI, trustworthy AI should be:
(1) lawful - respecting all applicable laws and regulations
(2) ethical - respecting ethical principles and values
(3) robust - both from a technical perspective while taking into account its social environmentThe European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity 2023 serves the European research community as a framework for self-regulation across all scientific and scholarly disciplines and all research settings. Changes since the 2017 edition of the European Code of Conduct include, but are not limited to, research integrity implications of new and emerging technological developments applied in research (such as AI), a stronger emphasis on the responsibilities of institutions, funders, and publishers, and the use and impact of social media to share and disseminate research results. The 2023 edition also takes into account changes in data management practices, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), greater emphasis on Open Science, and research assessment.
Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice outlines the primary standards of good research practice and describes the procedure to follow in the event of non-compliance with these standards.
- GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires you, as a researcher, to provide clarity and transparency to data subjects about how you handle their personal data. It demands that certain safeguards and security measures be put in place to protect the privacy of data subjects. It is a regulation effective as of 25 May 2018.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
Processor agreement
When working with an external party (processor) that assists in processing research data, you may need a processor agreement if the research data is identifiable to individual persons (including cases where data is coded/pseudonymised). At ITC, please contact Masoome Shariat or Simon Engelberts to discuss this.
