1-2 years from now…
What does success for GOAT look like?
Session Goals & Agenda
GOAT Manifesto
Mission
Vision
Principles
Values
Outcomes
Governance Methods
Funding Open Ag Tech
Challenge Areas
Functions
Funding
… Structures
Framing Open Ag Tech
What counts?
Something anyone can use: Libre (free as in speech)
On Data
Open processes
What is technology?
Aspirational vs Reflective stances on tech
open ag tech at GOAT is…
AGRI
CULTURE
FOOD
ECOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY
Working GOAT Vision Statement
We are a opinionated principled community that technology that is open to diverse agricultural approaches.
We practice radical mindfulness and transparency.
We acknowledge that the technologies we produce have real impact in the world.
We prioritize social and environmental wellbeing.
Quick Check-In re: Vocab
Ethics: Ethics are “well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues” (Velasquez et al., 1987).
Values: Values are defined as goals that are desirable, worthwhile, or good, and are perceived to transcend particular situations to be broadly applicable to social life (Fleischmann 2013).
Principles: principles are an actionable prescriptions of a community derived through ethical consideration of values.
Ethical Consideration of Shared Values
Ethical consideration is at the core of GOAT. However, not all members of the GOAT communities subscribe to the same value set.
What are your values in the context of open ag tech?
Activity [10 minute]
Respond on sticky note
Pass to Juliet & Ankita to Cluster
Reflection on Shared Values
[insert themes based on clusters]
Principles (Flashcards) Yes to Left. No to Right.
Open Ag Tech should be transparent.
Open Ag Tech should support data sovereignty.
Open Ag Tech should support food sovereignty.
Principles (Flashcards) Yes to Left. No to Right.
Open Ag Tech fosters collective capacity.
Open Ag Tech should support agriculture AND the food system.
Principles (Flashcards) Yes to Left. No to Right.
GOAT is a space for generative dialogue about technology as it applies to food and agriculture.
Principles (Flashcards) Yes to Left. No to Right.
GOAT should support tech that increases ecologically and socially resilience.
GOAT should support tech that designs for ecology and society.
GOAT should support all tech that is open source, regardless of intent.
Principles (Flashcards) Yes to Left. No to Right.
GOATs should practice radical mindfulness.
GOAT should empower people.
GOAT should care about all farmers.
GOAT should care about food system workers.
GOAT should co-develop with existing collectives.
Function Hopscotch
GOAL
A roadmap that promotes research and collaborative development
Challenges
Fostering a Culture of Maintenance
How do we ensure that there is a vibrant community of both paid and volunteer developers, users, and stewards of critical software utilities and open ag tech?
Shared public resources?
Open ag tech utilities?
Functions of GOAT?
Challenges
Human-Centered and Ecologically Oriented Design
How can we reorient our design practice to focus on improving usability for both human and non-human stakeholders? How can we ensure that our technology design efforts are ecologically supportive?
Shared public resources?
Open ag tech utilities?
Functions of GOAT?
Challenges
Cultivating a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Community
How can we deliberately invite and cultivate partnerships with existing networks of diverse stakeholders of open ag tech?
Shared public resources?
Open ag tech utilities?
Functions of GOAT?
GOAT Functions
GOAT is about connecting, visualizing, and cataloging the community.
GOAT is a platform for creating a shared roadmap for open ag tech.
GOAT facilitates community building.
GOAT is more that just a conference.
We co-develop with/at other organizations/events.
GOAT facilitates building of shared knowledge and information.
Community Engagement
Discussions so far:
Different levels of engagement?
Democratic control?
Economic participation?
Autonomous and independent?
Decentralized governance?
Funding Mechanisms
Types of grants & agencies
Values on sponsorship
Thinking beyond grants
Thinking
Source Materials