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Trust Infrastructure BOK

Understanding Trust in the Digital World

Digital systems have access to more information than ever before. But information alone does not tell us what we can trust.

The Gwirio Body of Knowledge brings together ideas, research, perspectives and practical knowledge about how trust can be established, verified and relied upon across people, organisations and digital systems.

It is an evolving collection. Gwirio does not claim to have all the answers. Our aim is to help bring together knowledge and encourage better thinking about how we can make our digital world safer, more reliable and more accountable.

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Questions

The BOK explores questions such as:

  • How do we establish that information can be trusted?
  • How can one organisation rely on a claim made by another?
  • How can identity, authority, consent and legitimacy be verified?
  • How can trusted outcomes move between organisations and digital systems?
  • What changes when systems begin making decisions and transactions autonomously?
  • How can we reduce fraud, waste and abuse in an increasingly digital world?

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Contribute to the Body of Knowledge

Trust in the digital world is bigger than any one company, technology or discipline. We want the Body of Knowledge to reflect the thinking and experience of a wider community.

Have research, experience, an idea or a perspective to share? We invite researchers, practitioners, organisations and individuals to contribute knowledge, challenge assumptions and help develop our understanding of digital trust.

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Trust Infrastructure

Foundational concepts

Trust Technology

How trust is established and exchanged

Identity, Privacy & Information

How Trust Infrastructure relates to Gwirio's earlier work

Trust & Fraud

Fraud as a failure of trust between participants

Trust & AI

Trust requirements introduced by autonomous systems

Where this fits

Body of Knowledge, Framework and Research

Knowledge base

Body of Knowledge

The broader collection of knowledge, ideas, research and perspectives surrounding trust in the digital world.

Our model

Trust Framework

Gwirio's own evolving model, principles, terminology and architecture for Trust Infrastructure.

The conversation

Research

What Gwirio is actively investigating — particularly AI, oversight, trust and auditability.

The BOK is the knowledge base. The Framework is Gwirio's contribution to that thinking. Research is where the conversation continues.