
Trust and civil society organisations?
How to amplify their work. They need all the help we can give them.

Technology empowering employees to kick ass!
Hotel staff give frank reviews of what it’s really like behind the scenes on Reddit. Eye opening!

My Principles for Responsible Innovation
Still fresh and spot on 15 years later. Developed through a large scale multi-stakeholder consultation & a version published by the European Commission

My Principles for Responsible Innovation (Copy)
"If the public trusts the police they are more likely to cooperate with them.” Now they are less likely to.

Toxic culture of Met fuels distrust in police
From Nature - the scientific system currently does not work effectively for the public good what to do instead

Why bullsh*t language is so difficult to give up
I tried to understand just why bullsh*t language is so annoying, and yet we continue to use it. This is what I found.

Ethics, trustworthiness and values
Very good interview with Shannon Valour and Wendell Wallach

Everything you need to know about trust in alphabetical order!
Inspired by Ruth Steinholz A-Z of Ethics

Listening list of fabulous radio progs
I’m ill and listening to radio programmes - here is my top five on BBC Sounds

AI-mediated communication makes us get on better….
Wondering what eventually happens to trust when we are so mediated by machines that what we write and say is changed.

Technology to promote democracy
Tech can help make it easier to vote, to be in dialogue, to be heard, enhance civic engagement, and ensure human dignity. New project to make it happen

Rant on stakeholder capitalism (Copy)
Bored of stakeholder capitalism semantics

The Washington Post Mensa Invitational - fantastic!
It invites readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and providing a new definition. Hilarious

Toyota is firing robots!
They realised they went to far and so people are back doing the things that robots don’t have the brains to do!

How much is trust a function of perceived & actual trustworthiness?
Article which feels to me puts too much emphasis on comms as opposed to trustworthiness of institutions around covid.

Violation tracker - enforcement & shaming excellent for trust!
First report of brilliant initiative holding companies to account by publishing fines etc - spoiler, banks are worst!

Comparing who is seen as trustworthy country by country
Some mildly interesting comparisons by country on eg media, doctors, scientists. But missing the important bit which is why they are considered trustworthy

5 things you need to know about the ethics of Neurolink the rest
Great short video from Prof Andrew Maynard on what we need to think about, plus some more detailed, but still accessible links

Kurzgesagt - Evidence of trustworthiness in action
This amazing science communications company has 17 million subscribers and take being trustworthy very seriously. Take a look at how.

Martin Wolf on the importance of the BBC
The one thing we can all agree on is that misinformation and polarisation are bad for everyone, the BBC is the most important independent source of info the world has left.