#publictrust — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publictrust, aggregated by home.social.
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Coding in the open: so many benefits; so few downsides!
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2017/09/04/the-benefits-of-coding-in-the-open/
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> Public services are built with public money. So unless there’s a good reason not to do so, the code they’re based on should be made available for people to reuse and build on.
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Point 12 of the GOV.UK Service Standard:
> Make new source code open
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> Make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences. Or if this is not possible, provide a convincing explanation of why this cannot be done for specific subsets of the source code.https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-make-new-source-code-open
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"Born to the manor" seems to rub people the wrong way but without people putting a lifetime into developing values around honorable, ethical service then all that remains of democracy is oligarchy and tribalism; all that remains of law is witch trials; all that remains of scientific inquiry is corporate flacks.
#ProfessionalEthics #RuleOfLaw #ScientificInquiry #InstitutionalIntegrity #AntiCorruption #EthicalService #DemocraticNorms #EliteCapture #PublicTrust #InstitutionalIntegrity #Oligarchy #DemocraticNorms #Expertise #InstitutionalFailure #ClimateScience #Lawfare
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THIS WEDNESDAY - CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is a speaker at 2025's final #NCRM #Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 Nov:
'Exploring #digital life, #technology change and attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'
#intergenerational #digitalcommunication #ageing #ELSA #COVID19 #olderpeople #gendergap #familyrelationships #AISurveys #roboticcare #largelanguagemodels #sampling #surveydesign #quantitativeresearch #mixedmethods #publictrust #AIpolicy
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‘Campaign financing and election spending was last regulated in 2000. Yet both major parties continue to rely on a handful of large donors granting them privileged access to power, and undermining public trust in political institutions. Jonathan Hopkin and Stuart Wilks-Heeg argue the next government needs to reform the current regulation on party financing, even if it will be against its short-term interest.’ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/party-campaign-financing-needs-reform/ With no respect for those who study politics, the political parties have dug a hole which threatens to bury them and us in it. #PublicTrust #FascistCults #StopFascism #EndTheEcocideEmpire #EthicalRights #InterestsDemocracy #TheFederation