Open Podcast

Open Podcast is a self-governed, autonomous Livestream on the network's social media channels and CouncilPost platform through a real-time streaming service.

Anyone with contributor rights to the Open Constitution network can publish and release a Live stream of the Open Podcast.

This page describes the guidelines for the individual contributors for scheduling and recording Livestreams for an episode of the open podcast.

With Open Podcast, the Foundation's global citizens express their views, their case studies, and open research in an open session.

An open podcast for all the "voices".

Special Community guidelines for hosting and organising an Open Podcast episode:

1. Multi-Lingual:

   • Open Podcast episodes shall be broadcast in any medium of language. Depending on the registered attendee's demographics, it is recommended to use a single medium of language for an entire episode. However, if participating members come from different time zones and regions, multi-lingual podcast episodes should also be organized.

   • Moderators should play an active role in guiding the conversation of a multi-lingual episode. Media CWC shall assist panellists with speech interpretations, language translation technology and podcast subtitles.

2. Differently Abled:

   • If a member is differently abled and, due to any reason, unable to contribute to their speech, then the member may use a machine translator or a speech machine to express their views in the episode or a representative shall be chosen to verbalize the thoughts.

   • In the absence of a speech assist machine, if the member(s) know how to communicate using sign language, then the member(s) may choose to do so. For more outreach regarding the members' expressions, Media CWC should assist in adding subtitles to the podcast with care, sensitivity, and empathy.

   • Other members participating in an open podcast episode shall take extra precautions to ensure the privacy of their peers who are participating without their human speech ability.

3. Speaker Privacy and Anonymity:

   • At times, member(s) may wish to express their views on a sensitive subject and may not want to be publicly recognized. At times, member(s) may express their opinions on a very personal subject to them and may not wish to be publicly identified.

   • If a subject of discussion is sensitive and appears on the Foundation's List of Sensitivity, and a member wishes to remain anonymous during the podcast episode, then they shall do so under the alias 'Sentient Bot'.

     • You can read more about ‘Sentient Bot' and learn how to access the 'Sentient Bot’ profile for the open podcast episode.

   • Read more on 'What are sensitive subjects?'

   • Other participating members in an open podcast episode alongside a 'Sentient Bot' shall take extra precautions to ensure the privacy of their peer, who is participating with anonymity.

4. Preserving Privacy and sensitivity of content for children accessing the Internet:
   At times, members publish advocacy for the Foundation's guiding principles in an open podcast episode. We aspire to be a community built on the core principle of social inclusion of all human beings. Freedom of expression also comes with responsibilities. Freedom of expression is not freedom of expression

5. No member shall publish video, audio, or any form of content containing sexually explicit imagery in the open podcast.
   
   More importantly, members shall take extra precautions in publishing video, audio, or other forms of content depicting children(read human) under the age of 18 by obtaining the consent of the underage human's guardian.

6. Please point the members who have reached the age of 15 and under the age of 18 to the Trust Governance Center for the 'Release Form' in such cases if you wish to document an underage human in a podcast episode.

7. Composed choice of words:

   • Members shall take extra precautions when publishing video, audio, or other forms of content, describing their research with a choice of words that does not violate the Foundation's Code of Conduct.

   • Moderators of an episode should play an active role in moderating the episode's content.

Open podcasts are released with the Open Constitution AI Network License.

This release is in accordance with the Data Protection Policy for the Foundation's community members. You can read the data residency policies by visiting the link here.