I see what you mean @micheleminno and also the points others in this thread are making, so I am warming to the idea of actually changing our Mission Statement.
We have discussed that a clearer scope restriction for the community is in order, and your Mission Statement incorporates that. I don’t think your last 2 bullet points are mutually exclusive, but that we may need to make a choice to get to a manageable scope (May be in line with what you meant with “We can’t be on both sides”).
However, I think we should restrict further:
- Let’s keep the 4 strategic pillars, but leave CHT to focus on pillar 2) Political pressure (Advocacy) and 3) Engaging employees (Adoption)
- Then ICT is still too broad. We won’t do cyberwarfare, we won’t do industrial automation, etc. We focus on the Internet primarily!
Then I’d like to have a Mission Statement that is our Slogan/Tagline at the same, so it should be shorter, and a good marketing term.
‘The Web’ is often used as synonymous to ‘The Internet’ (e.g. as used by Solid: “Re-decentralizing The Web”). When using ‘Web’ in our statement, this encompasses the hardware (e.g. smartphones) to access it.
So how about the following options as tagline/mission statement for our community:
- Humane Tech Community - Redesigning the Web for Humans - (focus on the humane design aspect)
- Humane Tech Community - Improving the Web for Humans - (same, but more modest)
- Humane Tech Community - Creating a Web Fit for Humans - (imply current unfitness, from harms to solutions)
- Humane Tech Community - Towards a Web for Humans - (mission + vision)
- Humane Tech Community - Humans Make the Web - (focus on human values)
- Humane Tech Community - Humans Remaking the Web - (transformation)
- Humane Tech Community - Solving the Harms of the Web - (from harms to solution, solution-focused)
…along these lines.