Step 6: Sustainability and Closure

What is the mechanism for periodically revisiting ethical assessment?
How will the product be sustained over time?
What opportunities exist to repurpose, expand, scale or templetize the model?
 

*This Framework does not provide an exhaustive list of all decision points that are to be addressed in the process of an AI/ML project. Rather, it focuses on providing tools and guidance around the decision points which provide particularly strong opportunities for processes of co-creation. Below is a list of additional questions relevant to “Sustainability and closure” for consideration:

  • Is the innovation worth sustaining over time?

  • How will the product be sustained and scaled up (ongoing costs and maintenance etc)?

  • Can the data be shared as a public good?

  • On what terms would the model be made available to others? Open source / commercialisation / etc?

  • How might the project inform the broader landscape including legislation, policy guidance, etc.?

  • Who owns the IP?