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Stewardship

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Quick takeaways

An explicit, ongoing role responsible for system behavior over time, with authority to pause, fix, or retire it.

Definition

An explicit, ongoing role responsible for system behavior over time, with authority to pause, fix, or retire it. Stewardship links design authority, stoppability, and stewardship windows.

Scope
H. Governance & power. Structures that determine who sets moral boundaries and who can intervene.
Genealogy
Ethotechnics uses Stewardship to extend the h. governance & power vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.

Adjacent terms

governance accountability operations

Example corpus

  • A named steward can pause a rollout and own the repair log.

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Version

v1.1.0

Last updated

Jan 9, 2026

DOI

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APA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Stewardship. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/stewardship

MLA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Stewardship." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/stewardship.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Stewardship." Ethotechnics glossary. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/stewardship.

BibTeX

@misc{glossary_stewardship,
  title={Stewardship},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/stewardship},
  version={v1.1.0}
}

RIS

TY  - WEB
TI  - Stewardship
AU  - Ethotechnics Institute Research Team
PY  - 2026
UR  - https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/stewardship
ER  -

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Contact: research@ethotechnics.org

Publication details

  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Jan 9, 2026
  • Version: v1.1.0
  • DOI: Pending Zenodo deposit

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Changelog

  • v1.1.0 · 2026-01-09 — Expanded scholarly metadata, operational tests, and provenance notes.
  • v1.0.0 · 2025-12-03 — Initial glossary release with stable permalinks.