Innovation is society in the making refreshed

Trust thought for today - “Tech Ethics is a hot topic and I’m having a deja vu moment. There is nothing new about thinking about how to develop innovations which put people and not profit first, whilst also navigating inherent moral dilemmas.

It has been called a number of different things, even in my lifetime, but while the names change, the technologies change, the overarching dilemma of how to develop innovations which don’t cause more problems than they solve remains the same...."

I wrote this meander through CSR/SRI/ESG/RRI/Tech Ethics at the kind request of someone who I greatly admire, who was interested in my journey and the arc of social and environmental responsibility and tech development it describes since the 1980's.

They kindly wanted to publish it as a blog, but it is too boring and I would rather have the attention on my current work, rather than my meanderings about the past. Quite rude of me now I think of it!

But I have just found it quite useful for drafting a new report — Innovation is Society in the making — How innovation can work better for people and planet, without causing more problems than it solves. This will be a reflection and update of my work on Responsible Innovation and trust over the last 30 years.

So I am promoting it here because sod it, I did the work, it was a pleasant nostalgia trip and I quite like it after all! But be warned it is long and it is boring!