In efforts to set out a roadmap for a fairer digital Scotland, the Scottish Government publishes ‘Building Trust in the Digital Era: Achieving Scotland’s Aspirations as an Ethical Digital Nation Digital Ethics Expert Group Report’. The key narrative of this publication is building trust with the people of Scotland through engaging them in digital decisions that affect their lives.

How does relational ethics help to navigate ethical challenges for data-driven innovation?

In recent years there has been a growing appetite for putting ethics at the core of emerging technologies. Why is this so important?

This Global Ethics Day we’re delighted to launch the first piece in our DCC Dictionary series – all about ethics. We hope this empowers others to think about how they engage with ethics in both their personal and professional lives.

Over the last year we were delighted to be involved in helping to develop an Ethical Framework and Workbook for the Scottish Government’s Data and Intelligence Network. The aim? To create a practical and valuable tool that helped to embed ethical decision making across the Network’s data science projects.

We are delighted to publish our ethical assessment which captures the unique challenges posed by working on data projects for children.