Description: Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standard (latest Version 2 released in 2022) is an internal rulebook that translates the company’s AI principles into actionable steps for teams. It represents a comprehensive corporate governance approach to ORRI, covering roles, responsibilities, and processes to ensure AI systems are developed in line with ethical principles. Microsoft’s framework highlights fairness, […]
Description: In 2018, Google published a set of AI Principles as an internal policy guiding the development of artificial intelligence. This is a corporate example of ORRI governance in practice. The Google AI Principles commit to objectives like socially beneficial AI, avoiding unfair bias, being accountable to people, and incorporating privacy and security by design. […]
Description: India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2019 released a draft Scientific Social Responsibility Policy, aiming to be one of the first national policies linking scientists directly with societal needs. While not explicitly labeled “RRI,” it aligns with ORRI principles by formalizing the ethical obligation of scientists to “give back” to society. The […]
Description: This UNESCO Recommendation sets international standards for the rights and responsibilities of scientific researchers and the governance of science in society. It updates a 1974 text to address contemporary ethical and governance challenges in research. The Recommendation calls for member states and institutions to ensure transparent, ethical and accountable governance of research – for […]
Description: The World Health Organization’s Strategy on Research for Health (adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2010) includes “strengthen research governance” as one of its core objectives. This global framework urges countries to develop robust governance mechanisms for health R&I – such as national ethical guidelines, research registries, and oversight bodies – to ensure […]
Description: The Research Council of Norway (RCN) integrated RRI into its research funding strategy around 2015, notably in programs like BIOTEK2021 (Biotechnology for Innovation). The RCN’s strategy stresses societal responsibility and recognizes that traditional linear governance models (where science is isolated from society until after discovery) are no longer effective (). It calls for co-production […]