TrustGuide
Sciencewise-ERC funded project 2005-2006
Background
The project followed on from work undertaken by the Government’s Foresight project concerning Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention. Find out more about the project background.
Aims and Objectives
- Engage members of the public in ICT issues.
- Establish a dialogue between those who use and shape technology to enhance cyber trust.
- Produce and champion guidelines for those engaged in the research, development and delivery of ICT about how cyber trust might be enhanced.
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Latest Status Updates
This project is now complete. Find out more to the right.
Key Impacts
- Influenced House of Lords inquiry into personal internet security.
- Influenced House of Lords Constitution Committee on the impact of surveillance and data upon privacy of citizens.
- BT and HP project managers presented at industry events in UK, Australia and America.
- Led to Trustguide2, funded by HP, involving further public dialogue.
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Project Quotes
“Understanding why, where and how trust in the cyber world is lost is vital to the successful introduction of technologies that are true online enablers. Trustguide provided an excellent and welcome opportunity to understand these tensions at first hand.”Stephen Crane, HP Project Manager, case study
“Polls ask the wrong kind of questions and a huge advantage with public dialogue is that it gives people the opportunity to talk around those issues and have a free discussion around it ... You can feedback to government ways of approaching things to make them more acceptable. It improves government’s understanding of public opinion and concerns.”Interview for Sciencewise-ERC programme evaluation