The Aotearoa Digital Arts Network aims to foster an atmosphere of trust, openness, candour and safety where all delegates respect the diversity of each other’s talents, abilities and experiences and value the input of others. We are a diverse community. Sometimes this means we need to work harder to ensure we’re creating an environment of trust and respect where all who come to participate feel comfortable and included.
We value your participation and appreciate your help in realising this goal.
Be respectful
Respect yourself, and respect others. Be courteous to those around you. If someone indicates they don’t wish to be photographed, respect that wish. If someone indicates they would like to be left alone, let them be. Our event venues and online spaces may be shared with members of the public; please be considerate to all patrons of these locations.
Be aware
We ask everyone to be aware that we will not tolerate intimidation, harassment, or any abusive, discriminatory or derogatory behaviour by anyone at any event or online.
Complaints can be made to the organisers by contacting the symposium staff, either at the registration desk or by email admin@ada.net.nz. All complaints made to event organisers will remain confidential and be taken seriously. The complaint will be treated appropriately with discretion. Should event organisers or moderators consider it appropriate, measures they may take include:
- the individuals may be told to apologise
- the individuals may be told to stop/modify their behaviour appropriately
- the individuals may be warned that enforcement action may be taken if the behaviour continues
- the individuals may be asked to immediately leave the venue and/or will be prohibited from continuing to attend the event
- the incident may be reported to the appropriate authorities
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, technology choices, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate or unwanted physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention, which can include inappropriate questions of a sexual nature, asking for sexual favours or repeatedly asking for dates or contact information
Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
We expect participants to follow these rules at symposium and workshop venues and symposium-related social events.
ADA will support a restorative justice or tikanga Māori approach to resolving incidents so as to restore balance in a mana-enhancing manner, if the victim wishes. This Code of Conduct draws from the Kiwipycon Code of Conduct and it is available to be re-used or modified under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia licence, available from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/