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From: ZoyaVit <60671629+ZoyaVit@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 10:57:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Plain Language 2

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 1 | Polarization | <ul><li>Privacy and security are rooted in protection of capital assets, or other property. For publications and communications, Public Relations and related business units do not include layers of systemic oppression, individual and/or community rights, vulnerabilities and challenges. They write to discredit. There are frequent discussions streamline processes and avoid incidents, but no implementation.</ul></li><ul><li>"Hypervisibility": Because confidential and ethical data collection is unavailable, systemically oppressed communities experience further ostracization. This happens because of fear of retaliation, being simply forgotten about and/or assimilated into social dominant group. The Product team is indifferent because of team homogeneity.</ul></li><ul><li>"Walking on Thin Ice": Minority-centric project elements are acknowledged with fear of open conflict among product team and stakeholders. This creates inequalities and large data gaps in research and communications.</ul></li><ul><li>Product data are collected from random sample(s) of higher ranks instead of operational users who implement, maintain, and use the product. Often, data collection is non-consensual and derived from the Product team's assumptions of an individual/community. These assumptions are based on infrequent and specific instances.</ul></li>
 2 | Minimization | <ul><li>The Product team explores open and big data, intentions, information sharing, security and privacy risks before building the Product. But, exploration uses unethical questions and resolutions. Emotional labour of equity seeking minorities for "learning" is common - equity seeking minorities are considered the same as research tools (like Google) instead of human beings.</ul></li><ul><li>Product's data is collected from management with assumption data collection is substantial and methodical. Socio-economic status is a strong barrier to qualitative and quantitative feedback.</ul></li><ul><li>Equity seeking minorities' feedback is censored and/or reworded because their feedback is considered political. The Product team will see the present as a logical state of existance.</ul></li><ul><li>Product's feedback process follows antiquated methodology, is irregular, biased or non-existent. Feedback is only initiated if a large problem is brought forward or a large investment is involved.</ul></li>
 3 | Acceptance | <ul><li>"Quick wins": There is a shift in acknowledging complexities of the Province because they are considered unavoidable. The Product team starts using an intersectional approach. They connect with respective experts for research and consultation, instead of building image that raise their social standing within the organization.</ul></li><ul><li>Government is beginning to be perceived as a civic community. The Product Team begins to cultivate their relationships with Provincial communities. This includes advocates against aggregated data and for deaggregated data. Advocates' committement to social equity is respected, including their work against physical and psychological harms to improve socciatal living standards.</ul></li><ul><li>Indigenous Peoples are not monolithed and their Sovereignty and principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP) are undisputed and respected, is acknowledged and respected. Open communication channels are beggining regarding Product's impacts. The feedback collected is equitable regarding negative, neutral and/or positive, on Indigenous lands, peoples, policies and laws.</ul></li><ul><li>The promise to integrate the Respectful Relationship, specifically the public participation spectrum and E-GAP, is embodied. The approach accentuates authentic partnership between the Product team and Provincial communities, and abolishes performative efforts.</ul></li>
-4 | Adaption | <ul><li>Necessity governs data collecton. Necessity is determined through community engagement, internal and externally. Product self-assessment tools include Equity Impact Assessments for Provincial communities. Robust feedback system incorporates empathy, confidentiality, and open-ended questions.</ul></li><ul><li>"The Grandmother Perspective": The Product team protects human rights, modernizes infrastructure and services for the Province, comprehends community dignity is mandatory in all presentations, and circumvents poverty through the Product. Marketing and capitalistic characteristics of data collection are actively challenged and overcome.</ul></li><ul><li>"Innovation": Application of intersectionality is active and failing forward is normalized to embed the four elements of deaggregated data (emotion, mind, spirit and body). This method aligns to Two-Eyed Seeing for wholesome health and technology.</ul></li><ul><li>Security reviews are conducted daily to maintain momentum between modern risks and threats, and the progressive era of fortified civil rights.</ul></li>
+4 | Adaption | <ul><li>Necessity governs data collecton. Necessity is determined through community engagement, internal and externally. Product self-assessment tools include Equity Impact Assessments for Provincial communities. Complex feedback system incorporates empathy, confidentiality, and open-ended questions.</ul></li><ul><li>"The Grandmother Perspective": The Product team protects human rights, modernizes infrastructure and services for the Province, comprehends community dignity is mandatory in all presentations, and circumvents poverty through the Product. Marketing and capitalistic characteristics of data collection are actively challenged and overcome.</ul></li><ul><li>"Innovation": Application of intersectionality is active and failing forward is normalized to embed the four elements of deaggregated data (emotion, mind, spirit and body). This method aligns to Two-Eyed Seeing for wholesome health and technology.</ul></li><ul><li>Security reviews are conducted daily to maintain momentum between modern risks and threats, and the progressive era of fortified civil rights.</ul></li>
 
 ## 1.2 GBA+ 
 Tier | Mindset | Content
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-0 | Denial | <ul><li>The Product team is homogenous and works in silos, as it is thought to be suffficient to address the diverse audience, contributing to mistrust of intentions and outcomes.</ul></li><ul><li>"Western Caste System": Product decisions are centred top-down and maintains the interest, care and/or unjust distribution of power and voice of those with higher socio-economic status; intimidation and assimilation tactics are indisputable.</ul></li><ul><li>"What do they mean by that?": The Product team is the only group with a common understanding of language and vocabulary and this is projected onto the Product without considering how words and phrases impact those who have been systemically oppressed.</ul></li><ul><li>Multiple formal and informal complaints, which demonstrates unethical and prejudiced characteristics, have been submitted about the Product and/or Product team etiquette and the ineffective processes.</ul></li>
-1 | Polarization | <ul><li>"Colin 27": Censorship is common because the default individual of interest is white, cishet, married, male, able-bodied, neurotypical, and has an average family, and incorporating diverse folx is considered political; low scale of cultural humility is common. </ul></li><ul><li>Though the Product's foundation is for everyone, the product group engages with the ally industrial complex in regards to equity.</ul></li><ul><li>Indigeneity and social identity factors are seen as a concept that needs to be segregated and addressed in specific ministries rather than a cross-government initiative.</ul></li><ul><li>Consideration of Provincial communities, or diverse populations, is a burden, and though collaboration is sought, resistance to being equitable because the Product team does not see this affecting the majority; rather than amplifying the voice of those who are not represented by ontological staff, their concerns are ignored or overpowered.</ul></li>
-2 | Minimization | <ul><li>"Don't Rock the Boat": Positive culture is prominent, as is positive communications, and this directly relates to maintaining fragility in work, progress and mindsets, undermining progress through conflict; any perceived negative feedback is taken personally.</ul></li><ul><li>Product collaboration between divisions and ministries are in forming stages, with minimal champions, and reputation building is underway; the same issues of conformity is replicated throughout this process as the Product team has not confronted their biases and stereotypes.</ul></li><ul><li>"Stepping on Toes": Feelings of exclusion centres on challenging the default culture and staff often feel undermined, unhappy and threatened, taking away from the core issues of systemically oppressed groups being excluded from the same living standards as privileged folx.</ul></li><ul><li>Combination of anti-oppression language and vocabulary is only considered when there is a complaint, political initiative and/or scandals.</ul></li>
-3 | Acceptance | <ul><li>Terms of Reference is framed with the Provincial communities and global standards in mind and includes objective, scope, responsibilities, information sharing agreements, Privacy Impact Assessment(s), Equity Impact Assessments, and is managed as a living documents to align with intersectional national and provincial changes.</ul></li><ul><li>"Decolonized Approach": The Product team has undergone various challenges, active trainings and learnings, and confrontational situations that they are prepared to accept the Province is much more complex than normally accepted in the past; the team actively plans on how to leverage skill sets, talents, expertise and resources for creating an intercultural Provincial Product.</ul></li><ul><li>The Product team organizes themselves, and continuously adapts to new environments in a way befitting the current and future context, and frequently visits the past to evade replication of horrific events and stop the residue from these events.</ul></li><ul><li>All stereotypes and biases that the Product enables undergo a review process because project group is undergoing cultural(s) awareness and Indigenious based Systems Thinking.</ul></li>
-4 | Adaption | <ul><li>Product project group embodies BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, Neurodiverse, Disabled folx, Rural Residents, Socio-Economic Diverse, and Gender Diverse & Gender Non-conforming Folx.</ul></li><ul><li>Iterative improvements of the Product is based on an intricate feedback system as it incorporates Equity Impact Assessments for all groups, empathy, confidentiality, and open-ended questions in order to provide a platform where everyone is heard, especially communities directly harmed by colonization.</ul></li><ul><li>Polite and non-offensive language is used, and accessibility, such as Braille, automated speech recognition  systems, visuals/tools for PWD, Neurodiverse, etc., is incorporated.</ul></li><ul><li>The spirit of all United Nations Declarations (i.e. <i>The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</i>) and International Decades (i.e. <i>International Decade for People of African Descent</i>) is embodied within the framework and content of the project, and characteristics of the Product Team.</ul></li>
+0 | Denial | <ul><li>The Product team is homogenous and works in silos. The team is believed to be enough to understand diverse audience and this creates mistrust of intentions and outcomes.</ul></li><ul><li>"Western Caste System": Product decisions are top-down. This keeps interest, care and/or unjust distribution of power and voice of higher socio-economic people. Intimidation and assimilation are common and cannot be broken.</ul></li><ul><li>"What do they mean by that?": The Product team is the only group with a common understanding of language and vocabulary. This understanding and language seeps into Product. There is not awareness how words and phrases impact oppressed communities.</ul></li><ul><li>Multiple formal and informal complaints of unethical and exclusionary characteristics are present. These complaints include team etiquette and inefficient processes.</ul></li>
+1 | Polarization | <ul><li>"Colin 27": Censorship is common because the social dominant group looks like white, cishet, married, male, able-bodied, neurotypical, and has an average family. Including diverse communities is considered political. Low amount of cultural humility is common. </ul></li><ul><li>Although the Product's foundation is for everyone, the product group engages with ally industrial complex.</ul></li><ul><li>Indigeneity and social identity factors are seen as segregated identities. Each identity's barriers and challenges are managed in specific public bodies instead of intersectionally.</ul></li><ul><li>Including Provincial diverse communities is a burden. Collaboration is performance. Instead of amplifying voices staff with lived experience, their concerns are ignored or overpowered.</ul></li>
+2 | Minimization | <ul><li>"Don't Rock the Boat": Toxic positive culture is prominent, including communications. This culture prioritizes fragility in the workplace. Conflicts are discriminative in nature. Any equitable progress is stopped through gatekeeping. Any perceived negative feedback is taken personally.</ul></li><ul><li>Product collaboration between divisions and ministries are in forming stage and social dominant group still leads. Reputation is being rebuilt. Same issues of conformity is present in this process because Product team has not confronted their biases and stereotypes.</ul></li><ul><li>"Stepping on Toes": Feelings of exclusion centres on challenging the social dominant culture. Equity seeking staff feel undermined, unhappy and threatened. The situations that cause the feelings are intended as distractions from dismantling systemic barriers and challenges.</ul></li><ul><li>Combination of anti-oppression language and vocabulary is considered when there is a complaint, political initiative and/or scandals.</ul></li>
+3 | Acceptance | <ul><li>Terms of References and Proof of Concepts has Provincial diverse communities priorities and global standards as core belief. This translates into objectives, scopes, responsibilities, information sharing agreements, Privacy Impact Assessment(s), Equity Impact Assessments. These documents are consistently revisited to include intersectional national and provincial changes.</ul></li><ul><li>"Decolonized Approach": Product team has undergone modern trainings and learnings, and conflict resolution skills. These skills are effective for confrontational situations. Product team accepts the Province is more complex than they thought. Product team actively plans how to leverage skill, talents, expertise and resources for creating an intercultural Provincial Product.</ul></li><ul><li>The Product team organizes themselves, and adapts to new environments. This way of organizing helps understand current and future context, and they often revisit the past to stop on-going harms or potentional harms.</ul></li><ul><li>All stereotypes and biases that the Product enables undergo a review process because project group is undergoing cultural(s) awareness and Indigenious based Systems Thinking.</ul></li>
+4 | Adaption | <ul><li>Product project group includes BIPOC, 2SLGBTQQIA+, Neurodiverse, People with Disabilities, Rural Residents, Socio-Economic Diverse, Gender Diverse, and Gender Non-conforming staff.</ul></li><ul><li>Iterative improvements of the Product is based on complex feedback built with Equity Impact Assessments for all groups, empathy, confidentiality, and open-ended questions. This method offers a platform where everyone is heard, especially communities directly harmed by colonization.</ul></li><ul><li>Inclusive language is used, and accessibility, such as Braille, automated speech recognition  systems, visuals/tools for People with Disabilities, Neurodiverse, and other diverse communities are included.</ul></li><ul><li>The spirit of all United Nations Declarations (e.g. <i>The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</i>) and International Decades (e.g. <i>International Decade for People of African Descent</i>) is included within the framework and content of the project, and characteristics of the Product Team.</ul></li>
 
 ## 1.3 Ethics
 Tier | Mindset | Content