Turning a new leaf on data practices.
The Sustainable Information Economy (S.I.E.) provides an open-forum for all stakeholders for education, debate, and exploration of best practices that will shape the infrastructure for the digital age. Read more >
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Fair Trade Practices
Verifiable
Ensuring that information does not contain false information or is known to be untrue
Permission-Based
Obtaining information with permission and not via deception, or methods likely to deceive the average user
Transparent Exchange
Providing clear value exchange and does not omit material information that would be likely to cause the average user to make a different transactional decision
Rewarding Value-Chain
Creating long term business relationships and revenue flows to all points of the information value chain
Accountable
Enacting security, transparency and accountability practices throughout the information supply chain
Timely
Timely mechanisms for examination and correction of errors, misuse, and misappropriation of information
Human Rights
Adherence to the United Nations charter of Human Rights, including banning slave and child labor and providing safe workplaces
Sustainable
Support of the United Nations Sustainability Goals
Generational Equity
Awareness of the diverse demographics iterating through the world wide web and establish precautions against any potential forms of inequity
Humane Design
Pledge to build products that garner attention for the right reasons
Lori Fena
Founder & Executive Director
Lori Fena is a recognized technology policy thought leader, entrepreneur, investor and author. She has leveraged technical curiosity, business acumen and an activist nature to align stakeholders behind ground-breaking technology companies and international technology/data policy from the start of networked computing era to today’s world of AI, ML, Big Data and distributed ledgers.
Ms. Fena was the former Executive Director and Chairman of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), founder and Chairman of TRUSTe.org, and led the “Accountable Net” Internet Policy Program at the Aspen Institute. She continued as an investor and advisor to many technology companies after selling her company to Stream International, in a $1.2B merger of Corporate Software and R.R.Donnelly Global Software Services.