The AJ Andrews Institute publicly introduced the Tightrope Trust Index at Identity Day, held at DNB’s headquarters in Bjørvika, Oslo, on April 16, 2026. The concept was presented by Shane Alexander Caldwell, Executive Director of the AJ Andrews Institute, during a keynote address followed by a panel discussion on trust in the digital age. The
The AJ Andrews Institute has published the framework for its founding research initiative: the Tightrope Trust Index. Trust is one of the most widely measured concepts in modern governance. Governments track it, international organisations benchmark it, and corporations treat it as a strategic asset. But the measurement runs almost exclusively in one direction. The question
The AJ Andrews Institute is an independent research organisation producing original analysis across governance, technology, science, and society. We are based in Oslo, Norway, and our work is international in scope. The Institute was established to investigate how the systems that shape modern life — political, technological, and scientific — are structured, how they function,
