data

Fair weather, foul weather: navigating to positive impact in turbulent times

6th April 20256th April 2025 Gavinbusiness, Culture, data, Government

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?

13th October 20246th April 2025 Gavinbusiness, Culture, data, Government

(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 […]

Diome: definition

12th September 20238th December 2023 Gavindata, 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

19th July 202320th July 2023 Gavinbusiness, 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 […]

On data: where is it and what can we do with it?

5th May 20236th April 2025 Gavinbusiness, data, Government, stuff

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

24th March 202324th March 2023 Gavinbusiness, 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 […]

What is a data infrastructure strategy?

6th January 20236th April 2025 Gavinbusiness, Culture, data

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

8th December 202217th July 2023 Gavinbusiness, 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

23rd November 202119th January 2024 Gavinbusiness, 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

26th March 202126th March 2021 Gavinbusiness, 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 […]

Designing the UK’s shared data infrastructure

15th August 20209th October 2020 Gavinbusiness, 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?

16th July 20207th September 2020 Gavinbusiness, 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, […]

Data governance — how to move fast and not break things

1st April 202010th April 2020 GavinCulture, 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

2nd August 2019 Gavinarts, 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 […]

Global Open Banking Summit — announcement & notes

6th December 20185th May 2020 GavinCulture, 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

29th October 201822nd February 2019 Gavinarts, 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 […]

Can government stop losing its mind?

28th October 201831st March 2023 Gavinbusiness, 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

30th September 20187th November 2018 Gavinbusiness, 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

1st July 201825th October 2019 Gavinarts, 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

4th April 201825th March 2021 Gavinbusiness, 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

1st March 20181st March 2018 Gavin1 Commentbusiness, 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

3rd February 20188th December 2018 Gavinbusiness, 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 […]

GAFA — the extractive industries of the mind

16th August 201731st January 2018 GavinCulture, 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

12th July 20172nd November 2018 Gavinbusiness, 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

3rd July 20178th November 2018 Gavinarts, 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

10th May 201711th March 2023 Gavin4 Commentsbusiness, 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: […]

The AMEE story (part one)

10th March 20177th October 2021 Gavinbusiness, 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

24th February 201724th February 2017 Gavinbusiness, 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

2nd August 201517th November 2016 Gavinarts, 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 […]

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