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How Will We Be Long?

Posted 1st March 20241st March 2024 GavinPosted in stuff

Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli is Lord Mayor of the City of London from 10 November 2023 until 10 November 2024. Michael’s working theme is ‘Connect To Prosper […]

Diome: definition

Posted 12th September 20238th December 2023 GavinPosted in data, Environment, research

Diome [noun] A data biome that represents a temporal cluster of data from which specific insights can be learned, analysed and/or derived. Discussion This is […]

Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable

Posted 23rd August 202323rd August 2023 GavinPosted in stuff

via https://donellameadows.org/archives/dancing-with-systems/ “8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that […]

How to get now playing album art from Spotify API

Posted 7th August 20231st July 2024 GavinPosted in stuff

In a previous post, I hacked this by getting the album artwork jpg from my amplifier. Unfortunately, upgrading to a new amp ‘improved’ its operating […]

Lessons from an Emergency: Achieving Data Readiness in Challenging Times

Posted 19th July 202320th July 2023 GavinPosted in business, data

This insightful report, from the Royal Societies DELVE initiative, “Data Readiness: Lessons from an Emergency” delves into the crucial role of data in emergency situations […]

Bringing album art back to life

Posted 5th July 202313th July 2023 Gavin1 CommentPosted in media, music, stuff

So, after asking Spotify to treat album art properly for over a decade I ended up giving up and fixing it myself (and let them […]

Testing out this AI thing

Posted 24th March 202324th March 2023 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, research, science, stuff

Here’s a basic algorithm for trading based on 1% value swings: Note: This is a basic algorithm, and there are many factors to consider when […]

A stereo or a soundstage?

Posted 22nd December 202223rd December 2022 GavinPosted in music, stuff

Is that a hi-fi or a soundstage?

D0 principles for Global Data Infrastructure

Posted 8th December 202217th July 2023 GavinPosted in business, data, Government

https://dgen.net/d0 Having spent quite a number of decades working on data at scale, we’ve worked to codify some of the baseline principles that could underpin […]

What three things? These three things.

Posted 1st November 20228th December 2022 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment, Finance

Three climate actions you can take today. One of the challenges we all face in addressing climate emergency is “what can I do that would […]

Open Life Data Framework

Posted 23rd November 202119th January 2024 GavinPosted in business, data, Government, publications

Report: https://dgen.net/1/OpenLifeDataFramework-2021-11-18.pdf Official site: https://appg-longevity.org/open-life-data-framework Vision: To enable consent-based, trust-enhancing and secure sharing of personal ‘health-relevant data’ from the private sector to improve and level […]

Open Finance — the FCA points to a future of Open Standards for Shared Data in the UK

Posted 26th March 202126th March 2021 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, Government

The FCA has put forward all the major recommendations we (Open Finance advisory) made in 2019… laying a path towards Open Standards for Shared Data […]

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Tracking – compare and contrast

Posted 1st March 20211st March 2021 GavinPosted in business, Culture

What is ‘good behaviour’ in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism? Follow the data: https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com/q/www.dailymail.co.uk%2Fushome%2Findex.html vs https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com/q/yoti.com Compare and contrast. I continue to believe that we need commercial companies to […]

Net Zero Data

Posted 1st January 202119th November 2021 GavinPosted in stuff

Net Zero Data ™ Data related to delivering Net Zero impact on our ecosystem.

Leadership Learnings — team alignment

Posted 8th October 20205th April 2023 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Startups

Given the number of times that people/startups ask me for insights about team-building (and the fact I’m building upon them with Icebreaker One under lockdown conditions) […]

Tipping points…

Posted 29th September 202029th September 2020 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, Finance

Our transition to net-zero is underway — how can we ensure it is provable, robust, secure and fair? via The FT we have The world’s largest oil […]

Designing the UK’s shared data infrastructure

Posted 15th August 20209th October 2020 GavinPosted in business, data, Government, publications, research

Smart Data: Research on Consent, Liability & Authentication The government has estimated that the impact of personal data mobility enabled productivity and efficiency is worth […]

Data. Ecosystem. Market design?

Posted 16th July 20207th September 2020 GavinPosted in business, Culture, data

Digital ≠ website design ; Digital = market design What is the whole-of-market design for data-sharing? Rather than giving a detailed narrative at this stage, […]

How Can We Stop Losing Our Minds?: Producing a Legacy From Development Projects, Not Just a Document

Posted 21st May 202021st May 2020 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Government, publications

Have you ever run, funded or been part of a development project? Have you ever gotten to the end of it and felt that, […]

Calling all dance & ‘digital collection’ enthusiasts

Posted 7th May 20207th May 2020 GavinPosted in Culture

We are launching a new two-year development program to help connect people with DCD’s digital collection. And of course, as usual, it’s not just about […]

Data governance — how to move fast and not break things

Posted 1st April 202010th April 2020 GavinPosted in Culture, data, Environment, Finance, Government, socialchange, stuff, work

I’ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to ‘help’. To help frame a potential response that isn’t […]

Tip of the data iceberg

Posted 20th January 202020th January 2020 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, Finance

In City AM [Re: Why Open Banking is the next finance revolution] As co-chair of the original Open Banking Standard, it’s great to see the […]

Open Finance — Designing for Cohesion and Interoperability

Posted 19th December 201919th July 2023 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, Finance, publications

The Financial Conduct Authority set up an Advisory Group on open finance to discuss the potential of extending open banking-like data-sharing to a wider range […]

Open Banking, its evolution into Open Finance and beyond

Posted 11th October 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, energy, Environment, Finance, work

Open Banking—is a regulated standard that addresses data sharing across the banking sector. It addresses: Rights Liability models Dispute resolution and redress Consent Security Legal […]

Icebreaker One announced at UN Climate Action Summit

Posted 24th September 201929th November 2019 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Finance, Startups

After an 18-month industry consultation, we opened Icebreaker One at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. –> More information here on the new IcebreakerOne.org […]

Designing for people not things — a digital archive in the age of the web

Posted 2nd August 2019 GavinPosted in arts, business, Culture, data

Working with Dance Collection Danse (DCD) we have created a vision for their new national digital archive: a shared history that could be a co-created and co-managed […]

Longplayer Day 2019

Posted 21st June 201923rd June 2019 GavinPosted in arts

I opened the second edition of Longplayer Day, a peripatetic festival that takes inspiration from the themes and philosophies that underpin Jem Finer’s one-thousand-year-long musical […]

IcebreakerOne announced at the UN DRR Global Platform

Posted 13th May 201919th June 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Environment, Finance

We announced of our first open consultation for IcebreakerOne at the UN DRR Global Platform on 13 May 2019.

The Data Spectrum: defining Shared & Closed

Posted 6th May 20195th April 2023 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Government, research

One of the things I’m most proud of creating at the ODI is the Data Spectrum, to us help understand the language of data. When […]

Codename: Icebreaker One (IB1)

Posted 16th March 201919th December 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Culture, Environment, stuff

Development of the Open Environmental Risk Standard continues: this week, we’ve been working on a one-pager to translate what we’re doing in to more simple […]

Some thoughts on the ‘long-shot’

Posted 8th March 201914th March 2019 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment, Finance

I recently re-watched The Big Short. … and have, in many conversations, been testing out the idea that we are approaching a potential ‘market collapse’ […]

OERS — an introduction

Posted 22nd February 201917th March 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Environment, Finance

Yesterday, we hosted the kick-off meeting for the Open Environmental Risk Standard start up team. This is our summary of that conversation. Over 50% of […]

Your voice: on the future of financial services …

Posted 14th February 201914th February 2019 GavinPosted in business, Finance, Government

Interested in the future of open banking, open pensions, open insurance, open … finance? What do you think? Open Finance will … in your words: […]

OERS briefing note 2019-02-04

Posted 4th February 201917th March 2019 GavinPosted in Culture, Environment, Finance, Government

Based on six months of consultation we are developing an Environmental Risk Constellation (a federated partnership programme) to: develop an open standard for sharing environmental […]

Global Open Banking Summit — announcement & notes

Posted 6th December 20185th May 2020 GavinPosted in Culture, data, Finance, Government

“A full view of your financial world” From my perspective, Open Banking is one of the most interesting things happening right now. It’s like going […]

An open environmental risk standard?

Posted 18th November 20187th February 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, science

UPDATE 2019-02: briefing note here Working with Europe’s leading climate innovation fund, Climate KIC, we are initiating the creation of an Open Environmental Risk Standard for […]

Air quality data – ripe for disruption?

Posted 17th November 201818th November 2018 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment

Friends in the area tell me that this is the site that everyone is using to monitor air quality in the CA wildfire region. A […]

A national archive fit for the 21st century

Posted 29th October 201822nd February 2019 GavinPosted in arts, Culture, data, media, web

Working with Dance Collection Danse (DCD) we are initiating a project to create a new national archive: a shared history that will be a co-created and co-managed […]

BBookproject launches

Posted 28th October 20188th January 2019 GavinPosted in Culture, life, projects, science

Constellator Anna Versteeg has launched her new project: https://bbookproject.com “a collaboration between medics, scientists, researchers, writers, artists, designers and the general public, exploring science and […]

Can government stop losing its mind?

Posted 28th October 201831st March 2023 GavinPosted in business, data, Government, internet, publications, work

Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many reasons why anything new is […]

John Lewis to trial CupClub

Posted 7th October 20183rd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Startups

John Lewis Partnership has announced a collaboration with London startup CupClub, (disclosure: I’m a non-exec director), which will see the subscription service trialled within the […]

Report – International review & benchmarking of Open Banking

Posted 30th September 20187th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, Government, publications

We have completed our comprehensive International review & benchmarking of Open Banking for the Canadian government, covering: Australia Europe Hong Kong India Japan Mexico Malaysia […]

Exploring refugee financing

Posted 19th September 20187th November 2018 GavinPosted in Finance, Government

Working with DFID, UKaid, International Rescue and the Centre for Global Disaster Protection, we helped lead a day-long innovation lab that convened over 40 experts […]

Quantum Quipu

Posted 1st July 201825th October 2019 GavinPosted in arts, Culture, data, Finance, Government, science

How the visual language of technology comes around every 1,000 years or so… “talking knots were recording devices fashioned from strings. The Inca people used […]

Report – Development of UK open banking

Posted 4th April 201825th March 2021 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, Government, publications

We have completed our review of the development of UK open banking for the Canadian government, tracing its history back to the 2007-2008 financial crisis […]

Data is infrastructure

Posted 1st March 20181st March 2018 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, Culture, data, work

Great to see Data Infrastructure gaining traction with the National Infrastructure Commission: 1. https://www.nic.org.uk/publications/data-infrastructure-paper-national-infrastructure-commission/ 2. https://proftomcrick.com/2018/02/03/data-as-infrastructure Background In 2015, while at the ODI, I helped […]