Status of the Trustworthy Data Stewardship Guidebook
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This guidebook is a work in progress. Many of the tools and resources introduced in this guidebook are still in the prototype stage and will be iterated based on tests with partners.
Published: March 2021.
Status: Public draft for review
Licensing: The guidebook and the beta resources included within it are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 – International License.
This guidebook is part of our Innovate UK-funded R&D project aimed at helping organisations to build trust when accessing and sharing data. It builds on previous work on how to design trustworthy data institutions, as well as research into mechanisms for increasing access to data while retaining trust. Last year, we published an interim research report, 'Demonstrating and assessing trustworthiness when sharing data', which identified three common trust-related challenges and presented evidence for why we chose to prototype a range of tools and resources aimed at helping organisations assess, build and demonstrate trust and trustworthiness.
Over the course of the project, we have also published four worknotes on our progress and findings: a first introducing the initial research; a second presenting the results of a survey of private, public and third sector organisations into how they demonstrate their trustworthiness and assess the trustworthiness of others; a third laying out our evidence and reasoning for developing this guidebook; and a fourth that discusses the initial feedback we received on the guidebook.
We encourage you to use the guidebook and the tools and activities contained within it, and welcome feedback to help us make them better. In particular, we are interested in feedback on:
which of the activities and tools are most useful
how they can be improved
which format is the most useful for engaging with the tools and activities (some of the tools and activities are likely to be more useful in a workshop or group setting, while others may be more suitable for individual work)
other tools and resources that can help organisations assess, build and demonstrate trust and trustworthiness that should be included in our catalogue of trust-related resources.
Please also get in touch if you are interested in working through this guidebook in a workshop setting, facilitated by the ODI. The tools and activities in this guidebook can be used for a number of different workshops, for example to help an organisation conduct a self-assessment of its trustworthiness as a steward of data; or to help two organisations engaged in a partnership or collaboration to examine each other’s trustworthiness and co-design ways for each to build their trustworthiness.
