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The Equity Centered Innovation (ECI) Lab is an independent consultancy focused on combining research, design, and practice for more usable, viable, and equitable innovations.

Founder & Principal Consultant


Technology has the power to produce both societal benefits and significant harm with unintended and undesirable consequences arising all the time.

It is becoming increasingly expected that companies ensure their products, processes, and services are developed responsibly.

ECI Lab uses concepts, theories, models, frameworks, and methods from a number of overlapping practices to generate outcomes that are more usable, viable, and equitable:

  • Human-Centered Design (HCD)

  • Public Interest Technology (PIT)

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

  • Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI)

  • Science & Technology Studies (STS)


Research

Discover Insights

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Workshops

Anticipate Outcomes

Design Sprints

Inclusive Participation

Evaluations

Enhance Robustness


Core Principles

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Place those most vulnerable to outcomes at the centre of processes.

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Anticipate outcomes through reflection and foresight.

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Design with inclusive participation at the core.

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Evaluate throughout to respond to outcomes for social impact.


Outcomes

Fewer adverse consequences

Enhanced trust and relationships

Higher brand value and reputation

Culture of responsible entrepreneurship

Increased innovation capacities


Research Case Studies


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