Broadside: write once, post many, keep everything
A self-hosted social posting tool, ensuring you own your own content In my ongoing experiments with ai-assisted dev of tools I’d like, I’ve create Broadside […]
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From discovery to collection to connection
Turning your Spotify playlist into a record collection, and why that could be really disruptive Quick summary I’ve long wanted to make it easy to […]
Data is everywhere, just not where we need it
We’ve never had more data. Some think it’s the new oil, the new gold, the new soil, something of a revolution. Is it? Or are […]
Fair weather, foul weather: navigating to positive impact in turbulent times
The National Data Library can deliver its vision,but it must pivot to build trust in the age of today’s web This post builds on observations […]
How can we find the Goldilocks Zone of our National Data Infrastructure?
(please note my disclosures at the end of this post) This post contains (as-always) personal opinions and thinking-in-progress (strong opinions, weakly held) as I navigate […]
Lessons from an Emergency: Achieving Data Readiness in Challenging Times
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 […]
“Too good to be true”
We are in the midst of two exponential changes: our environmental crises (e.g. climate change) and the web of data. I created Icebreaker One to […]
On data: where is it and what can we do with it?
From a discussion with a non-technical board which I was helping recently There was confusion around ‘where is the data?’, ‘who owns what?’ and ‘what […]
Testing out this AI thing
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 […]
What is a data infrastructure strategy?
I’m often asked to unpack ‘data’. There’s a lot of confusion and, often, people think it’s a function of ‘IT’ and just for the geeks. […]
D0 principles for Global Data Infrastructure
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 […]
Open Life Data Framework
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
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 […]
Tracking – compare and contrast
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
Net Zero Data ™ Data related to delivering Net Zero impact on our ecosystem.
Leadership Learnings — team alignment
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…
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
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?
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
Have you ever run, funded or been part of a development project? Have you ever gotten to the end of it and felt that, […]
Data governance — how to move fast and *not* break things
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
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
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
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 […]
An evolution in process
The above chart is an evolution of the work of Simon Wardley, which I’ve been following for many years. It feels like we’re in another […]
Icebreaker One announced at UN Climate Action Summit
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
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 […]
IcebreakerOne announced at the UN DRR Global Platform
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
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)
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 […]
OERS — an introduction
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 …
Interested in the future of open banking, open pensions, open insurance, open … finance? What do you think? Open Finance will … in your words: […]
An open environmental risk standard?
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 […]
Can government stop losing its mind?
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
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
We have completed our comprehensive International review & benchmarking of Open Banking for the Canadian government, covering: Australia Europe Hong Kong India Japan Mexico Malaysia […]
A Digital Commonwealth?
At the 2015 CHOGM in Malta I suggested it would be prescient to consider the future of the Commonwealth through a digital lens. At the […]
Report – Development of UK open banking
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 […]
Can government stop losing its mind?
On Wednesday 18 April, Nesta is hosting the launch of a new report prepared by Gavin Starks. The report entitled ‘Can government stop losing its […]
Data is infrastructure
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 […]
A blockchain for that…?
Continuing the theme of “do you need a blockchain for that?”, consider the following questions: I am often presented with “We use blockchain to solve […]
Are we about to do something useful?
“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose.” Larry Fink, CEO, Blackrock (who manage $1.7 trillion of active funds) “Not all […]
Open banking is now regulation in the UK — Open APIs matter
The Open Banking Standard, which I co-chaired the development of, started to roll out on 13 Jan 2018. Creating open APIs is part of the […]
DECODE – personal data & the public good
I’ve joined the Advisory Board of DECODE, which is exploring tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or […]
SDG Hackathon in Davos
I joined the judging panel at FutureHack, the first ever Hackathon to take place around Davos during the week of the World Economic Forum, as a […]
Provenance raises $800K for blockchain-based product tracking + appoints Starks as Chair
Provenance raises $800K to launch groundbreaking service for transparency in the food and drinks industry British tech startup Provenance, a digital platform enabling brands and […]
Data is not the new oil. Data > Oil
“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” says The Economist “Data is the new oil”, said Clive Humby and many others [*update: […]
The AMEE story (part one)
In 2005, I was working with climate change charity Global Cool and global hedge fund Man Group (in my spare time) to try and create a global […]
DMA – Data Protection 2017
Slides from Data Protection 2017, https://dma.org.uk/event/data-protection-2017 “Culture is always left to the end in technology revolutions. Make no mistake, the web of data is a revolution: […]
Ecocide
It’s almost as if “Destroying the Earth should be viewed as a crime.” The UN and Interpol report that environmental crime is a growing threat […]
The tweetable scientific method
Reposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]
some themes emerging
Thinking about the sea http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/sunday-review/protecting-the-untamed-seas.html and webcasting https://dgen.net/blog/ms-hans and music http://rinse.fm http://store.darkclover.ro/album/sabo http://tidal.lurk.org http://lysuc888.blogspot.co.uk http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/08/03/rhythmus-als-dna-der-musik and long playing things http://longplayer.org/about/ and cosmology/topology http://www.binarydust.org/2012/09/21/evolving-language http://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2014/simulations-reveal-unusual-death-for-ancient-stars and […]
Updated archives
Well, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some of the things my first […]
W3 conf logo, meet AMEE logo
Nice to see the similarity in thinking here (2008 AMEE logo vs 2013 W3 conf logo)
Maxipok Zero – a quadrillion lives are in your hands
A quadrillion lives are in your hands. We often hear people talk of “protecting future generations”. There is certainly a lot of value in thinking […]
The Guardian as damn-you-autocorrect?
I know it can be hard sometimes to grasp and translate ideas in a single-shot, over the phone, but this Guardian “article” recounting their interview […]
AMEE at Strata – talk slides
My slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation and distribution, accessibility, provenance, and […]
New role at the Open Data Institute
During the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around the world. Decades since their […]
Energy Identity
[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets of data needed for carbon […]
Occupy & Climate Change: Hansen, Buffet, Chomsky
Two pieces really struck me today. I think we can expect to see this form of direct action increasing. The issues (control of resource, environmental […]
Binary Dust …
Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.
RIP Dr David Fleming
A tragic and untimely loss. David is still a huge inspiration, his thinking, consideration and actions have touched so many people. I am glad we […]
Energy transformation is in the hands of the many
Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and “Hero for the Green Century” in One of His Final Interviews [emphasis mine] “HERMANN […]
Webcasting radio = innovation
A big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station I’ve helped with streaming that’s […]
Streaming the smart grid
While mixing up a number of metaphots here, I’m thinking that RTSP and multicast would be very good mechanisms to support smart grid/smart meter infrastructure. […]
Periodicity
Building on this two things: 1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation->decentralisation technology | politics | finance | energy | cosmology | […]
Data is not binary
Science, data, internet, ontology, work and non-work themes converging – my post on O’Reilly Radar, reposted below Why open data requires credibility and transparency. by […]
Obsfuscation as a method of closed data
Things wrong with Companies House Crown Copyright data disclosure (which allows free copying) Get the DVD rom of the data – SIGH £30 for a […]
A Climate of Polarisation
(copy of my post on the O’Reilly Radar) We’re all aware of the emotive language used to polarize the climate change debate. There are, however, […]
Tim O’Reilly: “Instrumenting the World” (archive)
Archive of http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/11/02/tim-oreilly-instrumenting-the-world/ (in case Tish’s site vanishes) Tim O’Reilly: “Instrumenting the World” Sun, Nov 2, 2008 Tim O’Reilly has outlined some of the world’s […]