Forwarding Thoughtful Technologies is consulting and researching responsible technology design.
Our goal is to guide and facilitate complex discussions between you and your stakeholders.
Let’s Explore the Foggy
Path of Good Technologies
Our technologies will only be as
responsible as we make them.
Finding a Path:
To what is conscientious, trustworthy and thoughtful design requires working together through difficult conversations.
What does a responsible tech process look like?
Intake Talk
- Let’s always start by getting to a shared language.
We want to understand your vision, challenges, and the ethical landscapes you’re navigating.
Gathering Stakeholders
- Next, we play the role of gatherers, bringing together your key stakeholders.
By identifying and understanding their needs and perspectives, we find blindspots.
Activities and Project Development
- With stakeholders on board, we can shift gears to dynamic and interactive workshops, expert-led meetings, or summit sessions.
We can create think tanks where groundbreaking ideas meet pragmatic solutions.
Actionable Plans with Accountability
- Moving from conversation to action, we help you outline actionable plans that align with your company’s vision.
Whether it’s setting next steps or building frameworks for accountability; we help you roadmap towards meaningful progress.
Other opportunities for your responsible work
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Gathering Stakeholder Buy-in | We ensure all voices are heard and aligned, securing buy-in for impactful actions and long-term success. |
| Long-term Ethical Innovation Planning | We facilitate envisioning and planning for a future where your products succeed responsibly and ethically, addressing both immediate and future ethical considerations. |
| Embedding Responsibility for Strategy Development in Team Alignment | From crafting visions to consequence scanning, we develop strategies that encourage your team to embrace and advocate for responsible practices, ensuring your company’s ethical approach is integrated into daily operations. |
In the end it is not about being ‘right’, but about starting the ethics process and identifying how your technological innovation goes well for others.
The most difficult work?
To actualize the values you intended.
Ethical Research and Consultation
Delivering fresh ideas and ethical analysis comes with investigating future risk and building trust amongst both you and your users.
- How do we become aware of our moral blindspots?
- What consequences or points of concerns do your stakeholders see that you do not?
- In what ways can your organization foster better wellbeing for others while still aligning with your mission?
Future Thinking and Collaborations
John Ford Walker is an Emerging Technology Advisor, focused currently on integrating ethics into Extended Reality (XR) Technologies for education and research. He is a long-term supporter and volunteer for ‘AllTechisHuman’, and is a Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist (CEET) certification from CertNexus.
By fostering collaboration among tech experts and other creative thinkers, John strives to ensure that rapid technological innovations remain ethically aligned, guiding the tech community toward more responsible and socially-driven practices. His work has been published in places like the Journal for Human-Technology Relations, and he holds a Master’s in Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Let’s find a better way together
Your Values Shape Your Technology
Consulting and researching for the lasting effects that technologies have in the future of work, business and your community.
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