As the government-led programme committed to scaling digital twinning technologies and processes, the NDTP is the foundation for a functioning market in digital twins and the creation of growth.
The Technical Working Group for Ethics produced a co-created and seminal NDTP Ethics Framework. The ethical principles and considerations outlined in the Ethics Framework guided the final NDTP programme report, which seeks to ensure that all digital twins individually and when connected are safe, secure, trustworthy, ethical, sustainable, adaptable and interoperable.
The Ethics Framework has now been released and accepted by NDTP with the Department of Business and Trade (DBT) and is currently being shared across UK Government departments.
Loughborough University has both supported and played a key role in the NDTP alongside RAF Rapid Capabilities Office, Dstl, MoD Cyber Defence and Risk, CFSAeroproducts Ltd, Imperial College London, SixWorks, Telicent, BLOC Digital, UKConnect, and Raven Innovation.
Speaking on the output of the Technical Working Group, the Group’s Chair Professor Tom Jackson commented: “Helping to shape practices and policies is at the heart of Loughborough Business School’s Progress with Purpose strategy, so I am delighted that the output of the Technical Working Group has been recognised across UK Government. The collaboration and co-creation with our working group members has been key to this success”.
“The outstanding effort of all involved within this work have given a clear and unambiguous steer to enable the United Kingdom NDTP towards undoubted success” added Professor Patrick J Baker Dstl/RAF – Chair of the NDTP Technical Committee.