Jane Frost, CEO MRS F Open all hours - the best research content on the web or those of you lucky enough to attend Impact 2020, youll know we spoke a lot about how uncertainty is affecting business and society. The internet is both the enabler and the disrupter. Information disseminates in often unpredictable patterns and at lightning speed. The word viral is seen as an opportunity to influence, as well as having more sinister realworld associations. Managing and using the internet and information for good are among the key challenges of our age, and the meta theme behind many of the conversations at conference. Committing anything to print weeks before publication is often a risk, but Im confident there will be a lot more home-based working by the time you read this, and Im anticipating that online materials will be all the more welcome. As a result, MRS is making great efforts to share our wonderful archive of videos from Impact conferences, member evenings and training events, and topical industry interviews. Add to that podcasts and special reports, professional webinars, daily news, opinion and features from across our family of websites. All of this content is free to members, and we are making extra efforts to curate and highlight themes to help you decide whats of particular interest to you. Now, more than ever, we need to be looking around for as broad a set of perspectives as possible, and youll get that from our content archive from Booker prize winners and politicians to cybersecurity experts and environmental visionaries, as well as deep dives into the latest methods in behavioural economics, semiotics and machine learning. Our joint report with Savanta Intelligence Capital 2020: A practitioners guide provides a framework for clients and agencies to build capacity, and make the connection between insight and business growth. Intelligence Capital can meet the demands we all face from increasing uncertainty and market fragmentation. Read this report at mrs.org.uk/ic2020 and let me know what you think, especially if there are areas within the framework where MRS can do more to support you. As researchers, we learn and develop skills and perspectives at every opportunity. I urge the entire sector to consider this moment as just such an opportunity, and to use these materials in a collective effort of professional development, in spite of the difficult circumstances in which we find ourselves. Sector and MRS news Standards webinars MRS has launched a new webinar series for 2020 to provide updates on professional policy and standards. Compiled and presented by the MRS standards and policy team, these quarterly webinars bring you closer to the experts behind Codeline, MRS email advice service for information on the Code of Conduct, GDPR, regulations and guidelines. Youll also have the chance to submit questions to the MRS experts during the webinar, about any of the topics covered, or any other burning issues you may have. The next webinar is in May. Visit mrs.org.uk/events EFAMRO Monitoring Report The regular EFAMRO Monitoring Report covers selected legal and regulatory developments and events in data protection of particular interest to the research sector. Visit mrs.org.uk/EFAMRO 75