Can I contribute content / write a TS+ article for the Conversation page?

Yes! Anyone can add content to this site if you follow the guidelines for content and format!

The goal is to provide a curated + self directed “onramp” for people to engage with tech stewardship in their own contexts.
- It is anticipated that most users will enter through one of the “onramp” posts on the Conversation page where they will receive an introduction to TS in a context that is relevant to them before they click through to the “overstory” of TS.
Facilitate connections with: concepts, language, inspirational stories, resources, co-conspirators, aligned initiatives, etc…
Provide a sense of how different contexts are all related to the overall story of tech stewardship.

The overall primary audience is people involved in the creation and application of technology (engineers, computer scientists, technologists, etc…).
Secondary audience is social scientists, policy makers and others who have been trained to think critically about the relationship between tech & society
Tertiary audience is the general public, as we believe ultimately everyone needs to practice tech stewardship in their own context.

Frame the conversation around TS+ Challenge, Specific Tech, Sector, Profession, Individuals, Orgs / Initiatives. Stay focused on questions like:
- How is TS relevant to ________?
- What’s likely to happen if we don’t practice tech stewardship?
- What’s possible if we do practice with tech stewardship?
- What are the challenges to integrating TS in this context?
- Sub links
Connect to the core themes of tech stewardship that are introduced on “The Change” page of the website
- Advance Understanding
- Deliberate Values, and/or
- Practicing Behaviours
Contextualize and point to other content – either on site or on other sires (as opposed to recreating)
Consider someone who is arriving at your post as their primary entry point to the content. Consider that the primary relevant context for them is the specific sub-focus that you’re writing about (i.e. professional identity, sector, challenge and/or specific tech)
Overall, think of your onramp post as one pieces in a co-authored interactive “choose your own adventure” guide to TS
Sorted by category / topic
Tagged by geography: Canada – Ontario – Toronto

Although we will add any onramp post that conforms to the above requirements to the site, we have a curation process to highlight the posts that serve as the best onramps for people coming to the site with different focuses.
As part of the curation, the content is tiered, with top levels simpler and more curated, lower levels more detailed.

Posts are highlighted at higher levels of the curation structure based on:
- How well they provide an onramp to TS for the specific target audience
- The credibility and commitment of the author and the organizations they are affiliated with