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practicing TS by 2030 in Canada. Interdisciplinary
collaboration is essential for ensuring that innovation
is achieved responsibly and ethically [9], and
the adoption of this culture change requires meaningful
participation from an interdisciplinary community
best suited to adapt these ethical principles
to their unique cultural and institutional idioms [10].
Strengthening knowledge exchange and community
connections across formerly siloed disciplines and
industry domains will contribute to a thriving community
of interdisciplinary tech stewards that hold
these ethical principles as fundamental rather than
supplemental [11, p. 78].
To offer a sense of how Technological Stewardship
can be scaled in engineering culture, ECL's approach
is to engage leaders working to foster technological
stewardship at three levels: personal, organizational,
and system. Community-building is accomplished
through three interconnected offerings: 1) supporting
organizational consulting offerings that provide direct
support to a select group of innovative and high-profile
organizations to fully incorporate Technological
Stewardship into their culture and systems and serve
as role models for others to follow; 2) cross-organizational
systems-level initiatives focused on shifting key
sectors like engineering education and consulting
engineering; and 3) the TechStewardship.com platform
that acts as a hub for these efforts, promoting the
concept of Technological Stewardship, supporting
individuals' practices, and connecting them to leading
organizations and initiatives.
By changing the culture of engineering toward a
proactive and intentional engagement with technology,
the results will extend across social, economic,
and technological domains, amplifying the positive
societal benefits of tech innovation while equipping
engineers to anticipate and circumvent its potential
negative impacts.
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Jason Lajoie, Ph.D., is an early career scholar in
responsible innovation, research-creation design and
equity, queer media theory, as well as a documentary
filmmaker and Organizing Chair for the 2021 IEEE
International Symposium for Technology And Society
(ISTAS21).
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