OUR PRINCIPLES AND OPERATING GUIDELINES
The EDA’s approach to governance and data sharing is guided by the following principles:
- Cannabis is a master plant with myriad uses, diverse genetics, and highly complex legal issues. The EDA seeks to honor the cannabis plant, foster its biodiversity and promote broad universal access.
- Data, information and knowledge should be primarily utilized to repair the earth and our relationship with it. The EDA shall encourage and preserve genetic diversity of all species – as well as the ecosystems and microbiomes in which they live.
- The EDA shall promote the reparation of disparity with parity wherever possible.
- The EDA promotes informed agency with regards to how data are created, shared, and used.
- Systems should be designed by the communities they impact, with community members as primary stakeholders and project owners.
- Effective business and legal tools that support these efforts must be used in ways that align with community ethics.
- The EDA prioritizes ethics and sustainability over profit and encourages sustainable localized economies.
- The EDA seeks to promote the healing and amending of spiritual collateral damage from the “war on drugs.”
UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ADDRESSED
The United Nations promulgated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) utilizing a specific numbering system. The EDA’s approach to governance, collection, sharing and monetization is driven by these underlying ethical goals:
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.
2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.
2.5 By 2030, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.
15.6 Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed.
8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors.
8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.
8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
