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Our reports offer ideas, analysis, research and policy recommendations for data and AI that lead to greater wellbeing and social justice.
Our latest research, guidance and articles, which explore the current ecosystems of data and AI to foster understanding and solutions to ensure that data and AI work for people and society.
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Participatory data stewardship
A framework for involving people in the use of data
Algorithmic accountability for the public sector
Learning from the first wave of policy implementation
Prototyping AI ethics futures
A week-long series of dialogues and workshops highlighting the new possibilities of a humanities-led, broadly engaging approach to data and AI ethics
Checkpoints for vaccine passports: Science and public health
Prior to deploying a vaccine passport system, it is essential to have scientific confidence in its impact on public health
Checkpoints for vaccine passports: Purpose
It is important that governments state the purpose and intended effect of any COVID vaccine passport scheme
Checkpoints for vaccine passports: Law, rights and ethics
Legal and ethical issues should be weighed in advance of any roll-out of a vaccine passport system, with guidance, oversight and regulation needed.
Checkpoints for vaccine passports: Sociotechnical design and operational infrastructure
Designing a vaccine passport system requires much more than the technical design of an app, and includes consideration of wider societal systems
Checkpoints for vaccine passports: Public legitimacy
Public confidence will be crucial to the success of a COVID vaccine passport system, and will be highly locally contextual
Checkpoints for vaccine passports: Future risks and global consequences
Governments must also need to consider the longer-term effects of vaccine passport systems and how it might shape future decisions
Checkpoints for vaccine passports
Requirements that governments and developers will need to deliver in order for any vaccine passport system to deliver societal benefit
Checkpoints for vaccine passports
Executive summary of a report outlining the requirements for a socially beneficial vaccine passport system
How to make a Citizens’ Biometrics Council
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about how we ran the Citizens’ Biometrics Council