A response to the NIH Request for Information on Institutional Accountability to Promote Inclusive Excellence. Submitted on behalf of the International Society for Biocuration Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee. Members: Nicole Vasilevsky, OHSU, Portland, OR, USA Mary Ann Tulli, GigaScience, HK & OUP, UK Frederic Bastian, Lausanne, CH Yvonne Bradford, ZFIN, Univ of Oregon Sara El-Gebali, EBI, UK Rachael Huntley, SciBite, UK Peter McQuilton, Oxford, UK Ilene Mizrachi, NCBI, USA Shashikant Pujar, NIH/NCBI, Bethesda, MD Lorna Richardson, University of East Anglia, UK Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Lausanne, CH Tam Sneddon, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA Andrew Su, ISCB, Scripps, USA Moni Munoz-Torres, OSU, Corvallis, OR, USA Roxanne Yamashita, NIH/NCBI, Bethesda, MD