Trustworthiness is a moral value considered to be a virtue. A trustworthy person is someone in whom we can place our trust and rest assured that the trust will not be betrayed. [Source: Wikipedia]

In the ICT context, trustworthisness refers to ICT "that is secure, reliable and resilient to attacks and operational failures; guarantees quality of service; protects user data; ensures privacy and provides usable and trusted tools to support the user in his security management.
[Source: Workshop on measurability of trustworthiness, Brussels 03/09]

Trustworthy ICT is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p.19) under the following challenges/objectives:

> Challenge 1:Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures

Objective ICT-2011.1.4 Trustworthy ICT

The envisaged target outcomes are:

a) Heterogeneous networked, service and computing environments. 
b) Trust, eIdentity and Privacy management infrastructures.
c) Data policy, governance and socio-economic ecosystems.
d) Networking and Coordination activities