Next steps

Demonstrate your trustworthiness

Now that you have a good understanding of all the processes, systems and structures you have in place in order to be trustworthy when stewarding data and have taken steps to build and bolster your trust and trustworthiness, are you actively taking steps to demonstrate the trustworthiness of those processes, systems and structures to your stakeholders? It is not enough to have good processes in place. You must make sure the other parties know.

Introduction to demonstrating trust and trustworthiness

Reassess your trust and trustworthiness

Being trustworthy and trusted are ongoing processes that will require regular reassessments and continued engagement with stakeholders. Do you have processes in place to ensure you reassess your trust and trustworthiness at regular intervals? Do you have processes in place to regularly invite feedback and input from your stakeholders in a meaningful way.

For an annotated list of other ODI and non-ODI tools relevant to building trust and trustworthiness, see our catalogue of trust-related resources.

The catalogue is a work in progress and represents a snapshot of the resources landscape as of March 2021 based on extensive desk research. The ODI would like to note that the inclusion of any tool or resource does not imply an endorsement of the organisation and product.