Whatever your background - tech ethicist, designer, engineer, business consultant, student - we all find ourselves in situations where we have the potential to shape the development of  technology toward more positive societal impact. However, it’s often difficult to seize these moments. 

Tech Stewardship is a professional identity, orientation and practice that supports us to find opportunities within our day-to-day work to help bend the arc of technology towards good.  It’s about supporting each other to better navigate the socio-ethical tensions we all face.

The concept of Tech Stewardship and the “shared infrastructure” that is being created to support it has been co-created by a diverse community of leaders and organizations. All Tech Is Human is one of the core partners that is collaborating to help continue to shape and share it.  

What’s currently available?

  • Tech Stewardship Practice Program (TSPP) – a 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice.  The program is offered free to All Tech Is Human members.  Click here for more information and to register (when you check-out you can pick All Tech Is Human from a list of partners to access your free registration).  

  • Tech Stewardship Drop-In Practice Sessions – we hold weekly 30min drop-in practice calls which are an opportunity to take a pause in your week and connect with others to help explore the tensions we are feeling in our work or environments.  Click here to learn more

  • Tech Stewardship Slack Channel – offers a space for us to share our examples and requests for support as we navigate the tensions we each face in our day-to-day work.

These items and the other shared infrastructure we are working to create are being designed so that you can leverage them in your own efforts to work towards “tipping points” where Tech Stewardship practice becomes the new normal within your:

  • Post-Secondary Institutions – weave tech stewardship practice into the journey of your students.

  • Non-Profits – introduce tech stewardship practice to your change focused community

  • Companies & Government – introduce tech stewardship practice as an investment in your organization’s tech culture.

  • Consultants – opportunities to build new offerings based on tech stewardship.

  • Professional Associations – introduce tech stewardship practice as a new ethical standard

 Please contact programs@techstewardship.com if you would like more information about how to get involved in any of these opportunities.

**When you check out of the free registration, please select “All Tech Is Human” from the list of partner orgs.

“The program helped me see the urgency of the need for multidisciplinary discourse and the fact that I could take responsibility in actively promoting that aspect. As an academic, I feel that my hands are tied in many ways related to the work in the industry, but this is something that I could take on, either independently, via my institution, or via a volunteering community. It was important for my continuous learning, and encourages my goal of understanding responsible tech from different perspectives.” -Salla Westerstrand

“Everything from the Tech Stewardship program is an "Ah-Ha" moment, and I am glad to have joined it! With the extensive knowledge gained from this program, I feel more confident to be able to highlight and inform the challenges I'm noticing in my day-to-day work, reflect on them and also be able to take actions which will have positive effects on my career, workplace and the global tech community. I will tell everyone about this program!” -Musa Abubakar

“In my line of work, we are building a deep technology solution that stores and interacts with customers all the time. I ensure that I’m using stewardship principles in everything I do as it ensures an inclusive design that cares for all users of my technology solution. Before the course, I never felt there was a need to have such a tenet to the success of the overall platform. I think the certification of completion will make me more qualified to showcase my skills in my career!” -Kiran Kadekoppa,

“This course really made me think and reflect on things differently, and what actually constitutes technology and the drivers for innovation and growth, and how we can help humanity move forward. Tech Stewardship will become more and more important - especially in light of such rapid advancements in technology and AI, and very much in line with my career focus. Great course, great outline, great community - thank you for all the effort that went into creating and running this Tech Stewardship course - I will happily recommend it to others too. It offered great food for thought and a great community of like-minded people!” -Mari Cairns

“I really enjoyed the weekly zoom meetings where we could talk to another professional and share ideas. This part was very valuable to me! It probably applies to you and your work and you should really just take it.” -Aly