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Edelman Trust Barometer

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Credibility Rating

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Good quality. Reputable source with community review or editorial standards, but less rigorous than peer-reviewed venues.

Rating inherited from publication venue: Edelman

Relevant to AI governance discussions as it provides empirical data on public trust in AI and tech institutions, useful context for understanding societal acceptance and legitimacy challenges facing AI deployment and regulation.

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Importance: 35/100organizational reportdataset

Summary

The Edelman Trust Barometer is an annual global survey measuring public trust in institutions including government, business, media, and NGOs across dozens of countries. It provides data on how trust levels shift in response to technological change, AI adoption, and societal events. The research is widely cited in policy and governance discussions about responsible technology deployment.

Key Points

  • Annual survey covering 28+ countries measuring trust in four key institutions: government, business, media, and NGOs
  • Tracks public attitudes toward AI and emerging technologies, including fears about job loss, misinformation, and lack of accountability
  • Consistently finds that trust in AI companies and tech sector is lower than trust in traditional institutions in many regions
  • Data is used by policymakers, corporations, and civil society to understand public sentiment and inform governance decisions
  • Highlights growing 'trust gap' between informed elites and general population regarding technology risks and benefits

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 Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.


History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.


The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.


This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work. 


Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.


The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures. 

 

 

 

 
 
Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

 

 

 ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs

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