D4CR Handbook - Rules of Play

Introduction

About D4CR

D4CR – Designing for Children’s Rights is a global non-profit multidisciplinary network of experts propelling ethics in design for children. We empower practitioners through our open online resources and foster community engagement in local chapters and global events. D4CR is built on the contributions of hundreds of people from different countries - practitioners, academics, students and enthusiasts of child design. We all come together so that more products and services consider and respect what is best for children, to not only keep them safe and well but also help them thrive. We are a horizontal organisation with autonomous Working Groups and Local Chapters at our heart.

Read more about D4CR on our webpage.

Our main goal is to nurture the D4CR Design Guide, that aims to support creators to integrate child rights into design, business and policy and into the development of products, services and systems that are good for children. The Guide is open-source under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The purpose of this handbook

This Handbook's primary audience is the international D4CR community.

The goal is to give everyone in the community as much clarity and context as possible, while operating in transparency and sharing our structures and practices. The Handbook is also publicly available for others who might find it useful.

Culture Tools (How We Roll)

This section describes our ways of working: how we collaborate, make decisions, hold meetings.

4 Levels of Decision-Making Rythm Horizontal Team Work

We operate as a decentralised, horizontal sociocratic organisation, similar than teal and loop. Here is a 1 min intro into horizontal sociocratic organisations:

If you'd like to dive a bit deeper, check out this 20 minutes video covering the fundamentals of Sociocracy.

The structure of this handbook

Structure & Roles - the structure of our org and rights & responsibilities of different members Code of Conduct - applies to all members of our community Working Groups and Local Chapters - describes what working groups are, which working groups our community has at the moment, what are the rules of play of a working group Software Tools - Slack, Google Drive

This book is a working document. If you see something that could be improved: that's your invitation to improve it! Make a shout-out in the Slack.