Ethics of Data Work Principles for Academic Data Work Requesters

What's inside:
This paper presents principles for academic data work requesters, developed as part of the
short project 'Ethics of Data Work' at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, Germany. During
two workshops held at the Institute in September and November of 2024, an interdisciplinary
team of scholars, practitioners, and data workers discussed relevant issues in the context of
data work requests and ways to build equitable and sustainable systems for both data workers
and requesters. In our view, ethical principles for academic data requesters are central to such
systems.