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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Open banking is now regulation in the UK — Open APIs matter

Posted 3rd February 20188th December 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, work

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 […]

Difference trains

Posted 9th January 20181st February 2018 GavinPosted in media, music

An experiment with an old track (2002) and more recent video (2018)… [best watched full-screen & if you like repeating patterns with tiny variations] Music […]

GAFA — the extractive industries of the mind

Posted 16th August 201731st January 2018 GavinPosted in Culture, data, stuff

In the 20th century ‘globalisation’ was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is that this was only if […]

Provenance raises $800K for blockchain-based product tracking + appoints Starks as Chair

Posted 12th July 20172nd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Startups

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 […]

Adventures in acoustic cosmology

Posted 3rd July 20178th November 2018 GavinPosted in arts, astronomy, Culture, data, media, music, performances, presentations, projects, publications, science

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A project that explores whether there is a musical equivalent to the […]

Data is not the new oil. Data > Oil

Posted 10th May 201711th March 2023 Gavin4 CommentsPosted in business, climate change, data, internet, science, socialchange, stuff, work

“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: […]

TALK — Forms of Knowledge: Calculations and Creativity

Posted 10th March 201731st January 2018 Gavin1 CommentPosted in arts, presentations

“In celebration of a new installation of work by glass artist Dr Shelley James, The Hospital Club presents a panel discussion about the science […]

The AMEE story (part one)

Posted 10th March 20177th October 2021 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, Environment, science, Startups, work

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

Posted 24th February 201724th February 2017 GavinPosted in business, Culture, data, work

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: […]

some themes emerging

Posted 2nd August 201517th November 2016 GavinPosted in arts, astronomy, climate change, data, media, music, projects, publications, science, socialchange, webcasting, work

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 […]