Oragnization Transparency Protocol

[osAIran]

How do we become a transparent organization?

people involved:
@armantorkzaban @tcf-admin @IranNewsWatch @Jiwe-Mobarez @JJScubaKing @Chappie11

Problem

The current TCF website is not transparent into our organization, our finance, who we are and what do we do. Transparency means explainibily for everyone including 7-year-olds to 70 and more. Scrolling to the bottom of the website to find our projects is a very bad design.

Solution

• Re-designing the website for explainibily and transparency. The user journey for anyone to reach their goals should be designed and improved. This journey can be checking our financial transparency, who we are, what we do, what have we done, what is our goal, and etc. This should be an easy journey not a maze of GitHub and links that are hard to find.

• A Organizational transparency protocol
  What is a transparent organization? We need to reach a consensus on a definition.

Proposed definitions:

• Be financially transparent -> Financial Transparency Protocol
• Operational Methods and Decision makings are transparent -> Operational Transparency Protocol
• Open QA live streams
• Privacy-Aware protocol for sharing information about the members -> CV, introduction, goals, statements, current jobs, past jobs, etc.
• Open QA section on the website
• Systematic design for the objective of transparency and considering all ranges of users equally (tech-savvy, nontech person, a grandma, a teenager, etc)
• Recording and publishing of the transcriptions of our meetings in multiple languages
• Transparent Projects Protocols -> All our projects must be transparent
• Weekly press releases
• Video released on social media with the objective of transparifying this organization.

Transparent Project Protocol:

Our project proposals and plans will be presented in an open portal for public review. In the document, we are obliged to be open and have different versions of a document for openness and explainability for different knowledge groups and languages. This can be started with a technical and simple version. The details and funding we need and where your money would go can be visually explained here and a button to donate for that specific resource we lack could perhaps open up more donations.

Value added

• This radical transparency can showcase how a transparent organization could be and give birth to the world's first radically transparent organization.

Actionable Tasks (topic, plan, deadline)

• [Creation of a workforce of 5-7] @armantorkzaban creation of a core force - 2 weeks
• [Design, Implement, Update] Active meetings for design, discussion and implementation of transparency protocol at least 2-3 times a week - 2 weeks
• [Meeting for the website design] We need to create a better impression @armantorkzaban - 1 week
• [Finding a design system expert to lead the team] I don't know anyone in my network with this expertise - 2 weeks

[armantorkzaban]

Wonderful start.

This radical transparency can showcase how a transparent organization could be and give birth to the world's first radically transparent organization.

I don't believe that we are going to be the first one, but we're definitely going to be one of the best. Let's make this happen.

[osAIran]

Wonderful start.

This radical transparency can showcase how a transparent organization could be and give birth to the world's first radically transparent organization.

I don't believe that we are going to be the first one, but we're definitely going to be one of the best. Let's make this happen.

I don't know of any transparent organization where it has the proposed features. @Decentralized-Singularity we can become more radical as we transition to digital currency for radical transparency.

[osAIran]

To move this initiative forward we need to work on two parallel tasks:

1. Creation of Open Data Sources/APIs
2. Explainability of Open Data

For open data, we need to have the following:

• Financial Open Data
• Privacy-Aware members open data
• Organizational Open Data (decision making, minutes, etc)
• Project Open Data (Plans and documents we have)

[JJScubaKing]

To move this initiative forward we need to work on two parallel tasks:

1. Creation of Open Data Sources/APIs

2. Explainability of Open Data

For open data, we need to have the following:

• Financial Open Data

• Privacy-Aware members open data

• Organizational Open Data (decision making, minutes, etc)

• Project Open Data (Plans and documents we have)

I Love this discussion, and particularly the proposed item list.
I'm sure y'all are very conscious of maintaining the information security while planning what I call the "transparent operational platform", an absolutely amazing and necessary idea for what we are trying to do. Though, to preserve that we need to add as much details (to each of your points) about how we are going to implement that while preserving the privacy and security of our members and the organization as a whole;
Going off of your list, I think we should focus a lot more on the "explainability of the transparency, what data it will disclose, and how much of it is encompassed in the platform. I'm not an expert on transparency and overall PR sensitivity implementation,but in my experience, it is way too easy to divulge way too much when it feels right :)

[osAIran]

To move this initiative forward we need to work on two parallel tasks:

1. Creation of Open Data Sources/APIs
2. Explainability of Open Data

For open data, we need to have the following:

• Financial Open Data
• Privacy-Aware members open data
• Organizational Open Data (decision making, minutes, etc)
• Project Open Data (Plans and documents we have)

I Love this discussion, and particularly the proposed item list. I'm sure y'all are very conscious of maintaining the information security while planning what I call the "transparent operational platform", an absolutely amazing and necessary idea for what we are trying to do. Though, to preserve that we need to add as much details (to each of your points) about how we are going to implement that while preserving the privacy and security of our members and the organization as a whole; Going off of your list, I think we should focus a lot more on the "explainability of the transparency, what data it will disclose, and how much of it is encompassed in the platform. I'm not an expert on transparency and overall PR sensitivity implementation,but in my experience, it is way too easy to divulge way too much when it feels right :)

We need to be radically transparent and radically privacy-aware.

For sensitive information, we can use hash functions to give users something for later reveal. This needs to be explained very well.

For our member's information, what I have in my mind is that you can decide to be as public as you want. Whether to include the title and location of your previous jobs or university is up to you. You can decide to be transparent or encrypt the data for later reveal. Something like an encrypted CV where you can see the details of expertise like I am a node js developer. Something that can't be used to identify you but it can show your tasks and expertise.

I completely agree with you on focusing more on "explainability". I am not an expert in systematic UX design and a bad design could cause irreversible damage as we would lose people's trust.