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To whom are we responsible?
*Individuals that are the focus of documentation
*People who give you info
*People the info is about
*People who it is for
*People you communicate the info to/people who are listening/ppl who use/reuse your data
*Beneficiaries
To all humans affected by human rights
Your documentation team (and yourself)
Any community indirectly affected by the data
Those who are represented (directly or indirectly) by the data/info
Donors and funding bodies
Peers

<strong>What are we responsible for?</strong>
Be honest about if you are the right org to be collecting data
Using appropriate resources for documentation
Mitigating adversarial use of data
Thorough/imaginative risk assessments/mitigation stratgies/plans
Analysis is correct/defensible; no misrepresentation 
Cultural/political sensitivities are carefully managed in collection/use
Controlled/planned end to project and/or follow through in a sustainable way
Clear objectives/goals 
Positively influence guidelines to good practice
Credibility of over data/info
Risk/impact of the work
Verifiability of data (integrity) 
How/if/when to publish/share
Credbility/integrity/transparency of methods/process
Actually using it (not just collecting it) to create positive change
Attempt to foresee future risks as times change
Representations of data
Protecting personal identifialbe data in the broadest sense
Simple/straightforward
Data connects to advocacy mechanisms that are available
Monitoring/inforrming data reuse
Follow through particularly if the case is about an individual
Rights-based approach to data use/collection
Bring it back to the community you collected it/for

How are we held responsible?
Legally/contractually
Trust/relationship w/ communities and process of bringing data back to the community
Legislative/policy frameworks
Peers/agreements about good practice
Donors/funders
Internal guidelines/standards
Adversaries (human rights violators)
Conscience
Media
Boards/steering committees
Institutional memory/culture
Institutional review boards (IRBs at universities)
Ethics
Data audits/peer review/ external & transpareny reviews