Meaningful algorithmic transparency?
Trust thought for today - 'meaningful transparency'.
Here is the new standard for algorithmic transparency. It has been informed by some useful public engagement below: "How can the public sector be meaningfully transparent about algorithmic decision making?"
Complete Transparency Complete Simplicity
To be absolutely honest, I haven't had much time to look, but I don't really understand it! Interested to know what any of you clever folks make of it.
However I can't help but think important for future is the first finding of our trust report:
* In order for citizens to trust governance it is helpful that they know it is there.
* Then that they have a basic understanding of what it is about, it's public interest purpose and what it is trying to do.
* Then it has to be seen to 'work'. Unsure how this will happen, and how 'evidence of trustworthiness' is able to be shown.
Early days of course but some work needed here for me as a lay person!
BTW: Please please please British government get a decent website. It is universally acknowledged by insiders and users that this is crap. This reiterates this once again for me. Not inspiring trust my end for sure.