evaluation
How performance or effects are assessed, including research evidence and criteria of credibility.
Where the boundary lies
A persuasive anecdote without assessment is not an evaluation method.
See an example →Research edition · Recorded claims, context and disagreements · About the collection ↗
THE EVENT TAXONOMY
Evidence and judgement
What does a record establish, how was it assessed, and what remains uncertain?
assurance learning
Continuing assurance, monitoring, feedback and improvement over a system's life.
Where the boundary lies
A one-time origin record does not establish ongoing assurance.
See an example →due diligence
Investigating and addressing impacts or claims with substantive verification beyond formal compliance.
Where the boundary lies
Knowing where a material came from is not sufficient due diligence.
See an example →provenance
Origin, chain of custody and correspondence between records and their source.
Where the boundary lies
Origin alone does not prove responsible production or beneficial outcomes.
See an example →standards
Shared definitions, normative requirements or certification schemes and their scope.
Where the boundary lies
A common technical field is not automatically a sustainability requirement.
See an example →knowledge silos
Separation of evidence, expertise or organisational information that impedes use or learning.
Where the boundary lies
Different valid proof requirements need not be an organisational silo.
See an example →negative case learning
Explicit learning from failure, disappointing results or ineffective practice.
Where the boundary lies
A hypothetical risk alone is not a reported failure experience.
See an example →What the comparisons suggest.
Better information changes outcomes only through people and institutions able and willing to act.
The event repeatedly names a missing step between producing an answer and changing a decision. Evidence may reveal conflicting priorities without resolving them.
Follow the evidence →Traceability and reused evidence do not by themselves verify a claim or improve conditions.
Origin, chain of custody, valid proof, due diligence and social outcomes are different claims. Reuse can reduce work only while preserving the relevant verification conditions.
Follow the evidence →Better assurance requires incentives that reward finding and addressing problems.
More complete checking can expose failings while making a verifier commercially less attractive. Human judgement, consequences and shared expectations are necessary complements to automation.
Follow the evidence →Credible judgement requires methods and context appropriate to the question, with failure and missing voices visible.
The corpus contains studies, practitioner accounts, demonstrations, proposals and questions. These establish different things. Local knowledge and negative cases can reveal what a generic measure misses.
Follow the evidence →Watch and question.
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1:01Draw the decision before choosing the tool
Start with the workflow, human decisions and intended benefit.
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1:47Match the evidence to the question
Why trials, qualitative knowledge and institutional analysis answer different questions.
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2:23Interest is not the same as access
The adoption gap starts before installation: devices, data cost and household control.
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3:11An ethical promise still needs user value
Fairbnb’s publicity did not solve marketplace density and matching problems.
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1:43Purpose protection and democracy are different decisions
Sharetribe’s founders retained voting control before a later democratic transition.
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2:52A seat at the table is not a veto
A study distinguishes representation, votes and the power to stop a decision.
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Elizabeth A. BennettEndowed Professor; Strategic Advisor · UN Forum on Sustainability Standards (advisory role)LinkedIn ↗
Themes can overlap. Counts describe this collection; they do not measure importance, agreement or prevalence outside the event.