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Evidence-based guides for authorship, accessibility and ethical AI.

We publish practical, survivor-authored white papers that explain how metadata, accessibility and governance can protect authorship and systems memory. Our white papers are written for community organisations, researchers, funders and policy teams who need clear, implementable guidance — not jargon.

Access: Most papers are open; where material is sensitive we label access level and provide a request route.

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Featured White Papers

Strategic Self-Advocacy (SSA) — White paper

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SSA is a survivor-authored curriculum and implementation approach that reframes creative and communicative practice as structural authorship. It sets out trauma-aware, multimodal, AAC-friendly modules and practical implementation guidance for community programs, educators and advocates.

What's included:

Full white paper (PDF) — SSA_white_paper_2025_SA_McLoughlin.pdf
Easy-Read summary (PDF) — SSA_easy_read_summary_2025.pdf
Short implementation checklist (PDF)
Auslan signer script and short video clip

Why this matters:

SSA provides a repeatable, rights-forward method for keeping people's authorship visible, insisting on consent and embedding accessibility into practice.

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Citation:

McLoughlin, S. A. (2025). Strategic Self-Advocacy (SSA) Non-Verbal & AAC-Friendly Creative Arts Curriculum. AdvocacyAI / EduLinked.

Authorship & Metadata: Practical Protocols

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Practical guidance and checklists describing what to record (author role, creation date, purpose, consent status, version/edit history), and simple workflows for creating, updating and exporting records in ways that preserve authorship and prevent loss or misuse.

What's included:

Public checklist & printable AAC cards (Securing_Authorship_Checklist.pdf, Securing_Authorship_AAC_Cards.pdf) — user-facing materials that turn policy into practice
Short "minimum information" checklist for new records (one page)
Example step-by-step workflows (2–3 practical flows)

Why this matters:

These resources let people and organisations do the everyday work of protecting authorship without needing deep technical expertise. The AAC cards and checklist are designed for immediate use in workshops and services.

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Citation:

AdvocacyAI. (2026). Authorship & Metadata: Practical Protocols. AdvocacyAI / EduLinked.

Ethics & Governance for Metadata Sovereignty

Public summary; Full paper: Partner access

A concise ethics framework that sets non-negotiable rules for consent, auditability, human oversight and avoidance of biometric profiling in projects using lived-experience records. The full governance paper outlines staged evaluation measures and a roadmap for low-risk AI adoption.

What's included now:

Public ethics checklist (short, pass/fail) — downloadable
Governance roadmap summary (pilot → review → scale)
Full paper: coming soon. Partners can request early access via the Research / Pilot contact form.

Why this matters:

Funders and partners increasingly ask for concrete governance. This work translates high-level ethics into short evaluation measures and an implementation path that avoids vendor lock-in and high-risk capabilities.

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Other Reports & Demonstrators

Product research & demonstrators list

Catalog of small prototypes and demonstrators (plain-language summariser, Easy-Read generator) and their licence/access rules. See the Product Master for mapping to products and status.

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Accessibility practice notes

Easy-Read guides and teacher resources (e.g., Neurodiversity in Classrooms: Easy-Read Guide).

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Access Levels & Reuse Policy

Open

Freely downloadable with the listed licence. Use the paper and share Easy-Read versions.

Restricted / Controlled

Partner access by agreement. To request access, send a brief proposal (project aim, consent approach, lead contact) to founder@edulinked.com.au and choose "Research / Pilot" in the subject.

IP & reuse

Where relevant, white papers carry explicit IP and reuse terms. For example, SSA is survivor-authored and protected by copyright; commercial reuse or inclusion in AI training sets requires written permission. See each paper's licence note for details.

Sensitive content & data

We do not publish raw sensitive participant records. Any shared dataset is anonymised, minimised and reviewed for re-identification risk. Access to Controlled datasets requires an ethics verification step.

How to Request Permission or Partnership

To request permission for reuse, early access to restricted papers, or to propose a pilot/collaboration:

Email founder@edulinked.com.au with subject: Research / Pilot — [paper name]
Include: organisation / role, project aim, proposed timeline, brief consent/ethics approach, and a lead contact.
We will reply with next steps and a short access checklist.

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Easy-Read Summary

This page lists AdvocacyAI's white papers.

White papers explain how to keep authorship and consent safe when using AI.

You can download SSA (full paper), checklists and Easy-Read versions.

If a paper is restricted, email founder@edulinked.com.au to ask for access.

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Welcome to AdvocacyAI White Papers.

We write clear guides about authorship, consent and accessible AI.

Download the SSA paper, the Authorship Toolkit and short ethics checklists.

If a paper says "Restricted," email founder@edulinked.com.au and choose "Research / Pilot."

Thank you.