Research Project
Reversibility Standards for Public Digital Infrastructure
Turning reversibility from a principle into an assessable procurement criterion, so accepting an irreversible commitment becomes a recorded decision rather than a…
Programmes
From Ideas to Action
Ethical Infrastructure was created not only as a space for reflection, but as a platform capable of progressively transforming meaningful ideas into collaborative action. Future initiatives may emerge from dialogue with institutions, researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, communities and citizens. Initiatives will be announced here only once their objectives, participants and implementation frameworks have been clearly defined.
Areas for Future Exploration
Not active programmes — questions and directions we intend to explore as the platform develops, in dialogue with the people best placed to work on them.
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Education & Equal Opportunity
How technological change can be met with education systems that keep opportunity broadly shared rather than concentrated.
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Human-Centered AI Governance
Frameworks for governing artificial intelligence that keep human judgement, dignity and accountability at the centre.
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Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
The environmental and social footprint of the infrastructure our digital lives depend on.
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Water, Energy & Computing
The growing competition between computing demand and the water and energy systems it depends on.
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Future Generations
Weighing decisions made today about technology and governance against their consequences decades from now.
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Technology & Human Dignity
Keeping the individual, not the system, at the centre of every technological decision.
Programmes in development
All initiatives
Work under way
Strategic Partnership
Regulator Technical Capacity Consortium
Shared technical capacity across supervisory authorities that individually cannot justify the headcount but together comfortably can.
Policy Recommendation
Model Procurement Clauses for Public Bodies
Five contract clauses — audit access, performance disclosure, override preservation, exit, and change notification — drafted to be inserted directly into public…
Global Challenge
Open Challenge: Measuring Override in Practice
An open call inviting teams anywhere to measure human override of automated decisions using a shared published protocol, so results can be…
Pilot Initiative
Override Preservation Pilot
A controlled trial of whether removing throughput pressure restores meaningful human override in a deployed decision-support system — with the result published…
Educational Programme
Integrated Ethics in Technical Curricula
Assignment material that embeds ethical reasoning inside technical coursework, released for reuse so the marginal cost to a lecturer is close to…
Every programme is open to participants from outside the platform
A working group drafting a standard that its implementers did not shape produces a document nobody implements. We convene rather than pronounce, which means the programmes above depend on practitioners joining them.
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Join a working group
For regulators, engineers and caseworkers who will have to apply what we draft.
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Propose a research collaboration
Co-authored work, shared methods, or peer review of our working drafts.
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Host a pilot
Test a governance mechanism inside your institution, with the result published either way.
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