Are you a decision maker?

The continuously growing availability of digital Do-It-Yourself manufacturing devices makes new opportunities and threats emerge, from the job market to healthcare, and from education to environmental protection. Therefore, EU, national, and regional lawmakers, and in general all decision makers, both in the public and private sector, will be obliged to deal with DiDIY, each according to their roles and responsibilities.
In order to help them to be prepared for this responsibility, we suggest them the following resources, listed from the least to the most complex ones, which will help them to understand the challenges and opportunities of DiDIY:

FACTS SHEET(s) on:

• General introduction to DiDIY
• Laws, Rights, and Responsibilities

DiDIY VOCABULARY KEYWORDS: DiDIY community, DiDIY organizational impact, DiDIY education

VIDEOs:

• DiDIY Final Conference: Digital DIY Rights and Responsibilities
• DiDIY and Ethics

The parts of the DiDIY Guidance Manual about:

• Safety, Ethics and Law (p. 19)
• Product Safety and Liability (p. 35)
• Rethinking Intellectual Property (p. 76)

Examples from the DiDIY POLICY PATTERNS wiki:

• Minimise Ecological Impact of DIY Activities
• Tunnel vision in terms of Funder's Objectives

DiDIY Project Official Deliverables:

• The DiDIY Creative Society Manifesto
• Social impact of DiDIY
• Open business models and legal practices of DiDIY hardware technologies
• Report on DiDIY risks, synergies and education

DiDIY KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORK:
(particularly relevant sections of the DiDIY Knowledge Framework)

• 1.1 DiDIY: a human-centric phenomenon
• 3.2 DiDIY and the role of communities
• 3.5 DiDIY and the role of ethics
• 4.4 DiDIY in laws, rights and responsibilities