# Humane Tech Community Open Canvas

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/humane-tech-community-open-canvas/3420>\
**Category:** Vision & roadmap\
**Created:** [February 10, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/humane-tech-community-open-canvas/3420 "2019-02-10T21:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/humane-tech-community-open-canvas/3420/1 "2019-02-10T21:47:20Z")

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# Humane Tech Community Open Canvas

## Summary

 ![humanetech-community-open-canvas-summary](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/humanetech/original/2X/2/2a0e6c323f266e6d84666d61eba0f345af3d3266.png)

## ‘Product’

### Problems

Our embracing of exponential technology innovations that put **profit over people** are causing us increasing harms that we are unaware of, or feel powerless to change. These harms affect:

1. **Wellbeing** : prolonged social media and device use is afflicting mental and physical health and deteriorating our social skills.

2. **Freedom** : surveillance capitalism is destroying privacy, wasting our attention, diminishes our rights, and increases inequality.

3. **Society** : fake news, disinformation, censorship is eroding trust and social norms, even civics and democracy itself are at risk and we can be manipulated by malicious actors.

### Solutions

We **educate** people, creating **awareness** on how tech harms affect them and what they can do to mitigate or entirely avoid them.

We actively collect, create and improve **solutions** in cooperation with many **partners** and we will then **promote** them to the broader public - our audience - and stimulate their widespread use.

These solutions, when technological in nature, are called **humane technology**.

### Key metrics

- Growth of public **audience** receiving our message
- Growth of active **community members** that contribute
- **Retention** of active members over longer periods
- Number of **partners** that we actively cooperate with
- Number of successful **campaigns** (based on individual criteria)
- Surveys on **clarity** of message, **quality** of solutions, continuous feedback

### Key resources

Resources needed for a MVP:

- **Community team** to facilitate, organize and moderate
- **Volunteers** documenting, blogging, writing articles
- **Technical volunteers** to design / develop website
- **Campaigners** to help spread the message

## Community

### Unique Value Proposition

Humane Tech Community is unique, because of:

- Acts as **binding force** , forging **partner relationships** in a fragmented landscape of similar initiatives
- Does not compete with anyone and instead fosters a **culture of cooperation** to the broadest extent
- Tackles the huge problems we face with a mindset of **positivity** , **optimism** , **solution-orientation**
- Provides an environment and **vibrant culture** to members that is **fun** and intrinsically **rewarding**
- We are a **global team** that stimulates **face-to-face cooperation** in worldwide meetups and events

### User Profiles

- All people, everyone, but with primary focus on these groups:
  - Parents and their children
  - Technologists and scientists
  - Government and businesses
  - Educators

### User Channels

- Center for Humane Technology, other influencers
- Personal networks, friends, family, mouth-to-mouth
- Meetups and events, conferences
- (Online) Media, articles, press
- Community hub: website and forum
- Partner activities and references

### Contributor Profiles

- Informed people with ‘ **willingness to act** ’ in these categories:
  - **Educators** and campaigners to raise awareness and inform
  - **Technologists** , researchers and leaders to find / build solutions
  - **Creatives** , designers, artists and other craftsmen
  - **Helpers** and maintainers to strengthen the community

### Contributor Channels

- ‘From audience to activist’ (user to contributor)
- Center for Humane Technology, other influencers
- Specialist technology channels, humane businesses
- Other communities and partners, cross-pollination
- Universities, schools and education centers