LEEDh: Leadership in Engaged and Ethical DH Projects #d4d

LEEDh is also a fancy speaker company

To be LEEDh (Leadership in Engaged and Ethical DH) Certified, projects must:

• Fill a community need.  Involve the community, at the beginning, at all points along the course the project, and the community must own the project at the end.  
• Include academics who commit to:
  • Understanding community values by listening with their mouths shut
  • Acknowldedge that they are not in charge of people’s memories
  • Recognizing that there will be pain, and that pain is personal growth, pain is accountability in action
  • Answering the question “Will this project benefit from having what we bring to the table? Or should I just provide $$ because the community is perfectly capable of running the project, all they need is resources?”
• Analyze and disclose the social impact of access and use, exposure and creating vulnerabilities in the community.  
• Encourage self-determination of communities, as colonization/power structures can be maintained and transmitted into a digital format. 
• Include an Accountability practice that specifically defines who the project is accountable to, and what success looks like to that entity
• Begin with a relationship and end with a better relationship.  If the academic partner intends to sunset the project, they must leave knowledge, infrastructure, community leaders behind.
• Be used for community understanding and results in community change (as defined by the community) especially when discussing a painful event/period.