eConsent work at Sage

Bionetworks

1. “technical debt” means traditional (non-mobile) consent has known problems, but is hard to change.

2. signs of support for new methods of using technology as pedagogy in consent

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Layered information access by participants

1. “pictorial” dominant on first information layer

2. text dominant on second information layer

3. require short formative assessment

screen structure

Navigation

reinforces – from

“learn more” forced

back to primary

screen to proceed

study “narrative”

http://sagebase.org/governance/participant-

centered-consent-toolkit/

icons

templates

reference

implementations

reusable toolkit to build your own:

http://sagebase.org/governance/participant-

centered-consent-toolkit/

icons

templates

reference

implementations

grassroots opportunity to

map standard legal text and

semantics

uptake

uptake

changeable by participant

reused on

data use terms

what modules are missing? what

combinations serve you best?

please @ us

john.wilbanks@sagebase.org

additional context:

issues in electronic consent

in traditional consent:

comprehension

language

time

format

heterogeneity

regulatory

liability

the only element universally liked is

the core interaction removed in

eConsent – human to human

conversation

on screens, we read very differently

than in print.