8CTP as a guide for Responsible Technology

Can you introduce yourself?

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VIVES is a University of Applied Sciences that creatively addresses present and future challenges. We do this by offering contemporary higher education, practice-oriented innovative research, and social services.
With the core message "Design (Y)our Future," we aim to contribute to a sustainable and inclusive future in co-creation with our staff, students, professional sector, and society. During this process, we also took the framework endorsed by the government into account. 

How did your project come about?

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Believing that the 8 principles hold potential for future innovations in care technology, we consider it essential that our students become familiar with them. This project was set up to help them understand the 8 principles.

What does your project involve?

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We developed an e-learning tool about the 8 principles using the Nearpod platform. This tool provides students, as well as teachers and researchers, with access to information that helps them understand the importance of these principles. The goal is for them to apply these principles in the development of care technologies.

How are you approaching this?

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We started with a discussion group of project members and researchers who conducted a study on the practical applicability of the 8 principles, specifically their integration into research and education. We rephrased the principles and formulated guiding questions to explore how best to apply them.
Next, we sought concrete examples of each principle’s application in practice, looking at businesses, healthcare institutions, education, and research. We developed three specific cases that served as the basis for a visual presentation.
Finally, we created an e-learning tool on the Nearpod platform. For each of the 8 principles, we provide an explanation, guiding questions to make the principle concrete, examples of applications, and a Q&A section.

Why is your project important?

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With online learning, we can explain the principles in a simple way, allowing a much larger audience to understand and apply them.

What challenges have you had to overcome?

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When interviewing researchers and practitioners, we noticed that the 8 principles were not always clear for everyone. We rephrased them to achieve simple and clear definitions and added guiding questions to make the principles more concrete.

What have you learned from this process?

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The 8 principles must first be formulated in clear and simple language so the target audience can understand them. Only then can tools be developed around them. In response to this, adapted versions of the 8 principles were developed by the Wablieft Text Advice organisation.