Orbit Rri Limited

Company description

ORBIT RRI is a training provider that offers various courses related to responsible research and innovation, including stakeholder engagement, data governance, and design of ethical AI systems, aimed at professionals from academia and industry.

ORBIT provides training and resources for responsible research and innovation, helping organizations develop ethical and sustainable practices.

ORBIT-RRI Ltd was created in December 2020 as a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13059639). This means that it is a not-for-profit company and any income generated by the company has to be used for its purposes as laid down in the Articles and Members Agreement. The Company was incorporated in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee on 3 December 2020 under the Companies Act 2006 to operate on a "not-for-profit" basis to seek to promote a culture of responsible research and innovation in information and communications technology and other areas of technology, research and innovation through its support for, continuation and expansion of the Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation project. ORBIT, the Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT, was a direct inheritor of the work of the FRRIICT project. ORBIT provides training, consultancy and other RRI services to both university and industry research and innovation teams to help ensure that RRI principles are embedded in development from the earliest possible point. The aim of the project was always to disseminate as widely as possible the insights gained through research and good practice and developed as part of community engagement and service provision. To ensure that these insights remain available to the research community, in 2020 ORBIT established the training company, ORBIT RRI Ltd that could continue to provide the services after the end of the project.

Project impact

ORBIT works with Centres for Doctoral Training, universities, research bodies and others to both teach principles of RRI and to operationalise them in practice in the projects of which it becomes a partner.