TRUST BY DESIGN Trustworthy technology and business practices

Don’t Be Evil: Building Trustable and Responsible Technology Business

As the term “Surveillance Capitalism” established itself in 2019, we ask ourselves what will it take for 2020 to turn into the pivotal year that will turn the tide of an impending and some say inevitable ‘Privacy Crisis’?

On 27th August, ThingsCon and EHVIOTmeetup joined forces to kick-off a series of industry-focused workshops and discussions aimed at proactively calling a halt to the insidious activities threatening to erode trust in the technology industry. This workshop is a follow-up and the second of a series of deep dives into the topics under discussion:

TRUST BY DESIGN Trustworthy technology and business practices

We focus the ‘trust’ discussion in this workshop on ‘real’ world examples, by evaluating a selection of products, service, and organizations - with practices that either by design or through naivety or negligence are deemed to be questionable, trust-eroding or ‘Evil’. What criteria and framework for a code of trust might serve to guide and advise towards more trustable and responsible technology practices? What tools and techniques might better protect users from ‘harm’? What is the harm?

This workshop series is aimed at a broad audience of professionals with backgrounds in technology, ethics, regulation, (service) design, business, and finance on the requirements and possibilities for a European Code of Trust.

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The final workshop in this series is:
TRUST TOOLKIT Throughout the Product lifecycle
Date: Thursday 19th November
Time: 18.00 - 19.30
Location: Miro Online Collaborative Workshop

The output will be further presented and discussed during a seminar and workshop planned during the ThingsCon 2020 conference in December

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About the organizing partners

ThingsCon was started in Berlin as a conference on new hardware and the internet of things and grew into a community that connects practitioners and fosters the creations of responsible IoT via organizing events, publishing research, and more. ThingsCon in the Netherlands is the most active chapter organizing a yearly conference in December and Salons throughout the year.
https://thingscon.org/

EHVIOT is the Eindhoven Internet of Things Meetup, founded in 2015 and currently over 1500 members also responsible for initiating the Eindhoven Things Network (a community-led free-to-use urban IoT LoRaWAN network). This is a group for anyone interested in building, designing, sharing, and making the internet of things meeting regularly to hold practical workshops and share a broad range of technical, design, and social perspectives focused on increasing access and creating value with IoT.
https://www.meetup.com/Eindhoven-Internet-of-Things/