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Sex workers working independently or who would like to work independently who are active (ideally have made a booking within the last year). Workers who rely on digital technology platforms in some way to find clients or manage bookings or payments.

Clients who have relied on one or multiple digital technologies to discover, book with or pay a service provider within the last year. Clients should have no existing history of abuse, exploitation or harassment.

We’re looking for individuals who are willing to participate in several online workshops. Though we may not select you to participate in our first workshop series (we have limited resources and space), please let us know if we can keep you in mind for future workshops.

If you are a service provider, you can choose to participate in workshops that only include other providers. If you are a client, you can choose to participate in workshops that only include other clients. Only individuals who express interest in working across categories will be considered for the cross-community workshop that includes service providers and clients.

If you’re unsure about co-design workshops, but would still like be a part of the design process, please complete the survey and select the option to participate in future surveys or product tests.

Please note that workshop participation is paid in order to make co-design accessible to all.

We are dedicated to building an inclusive, representative co-design community that reflects the broader community and encourage everyone to get involved.

We’ll be convening different co-design working groups focused on different topics that affect the user community and individual interests.

Our first series of workshops will be focused on introducing and exploring different approaches, both through policy and technology, to balancing individual data privacy with community accountability for trusted connection.

Specifically we’ll be exploring:

• Community tolerances and ideal approaches for collecting, verifying, and authenticating a participant’s real ID data and relevant history for platform authorization
• Approaches to protecting real ID data from surveillance/data collection and the counterparty in a booking transaction

Workshops will be segmented into three categories: service provider-only, client-only and a collaborative category that includes both providers and clients. Please note: We will only select individuals who have expressed interest in their survey for the provider-client co-design group.

Future co-design workshops will focus on other specific topics, including community policy and standards, universal terminology for negotiating contracts, and usability and security.

We also plan to create open opportunities for the wider community to participate through online surveys.

We expect workshops to begin in fall 2022, but don’t yet have specific dates.

Once specific date ranges for workshops are determined, we will invite participants to choose from among a range of possible options to identify a specific date and time that works for a majority of selected participants.

In order to include the widest range of participants, all workshops will be online.

Responsible, inclusive design demands the participation of a broad range of skills, interests, and experiences.

Our team brings deep knowledge about the challenges for service providers and clients, as well as expertise in privacy-protecting technology and system design, but we believe the best products emerge from community collaboration.

Much of what is broken in the current technology finds its roots in founders and teams only focused on specific technology and business interests rather than on the effects of design on the entire user community—and on society as a whole.