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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AI-enabled Hi-Fi adventures
AI-generated image of an amplifier being controlled via a web interface.
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 […]
Diome: definition
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
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?
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Extreme sharing is a political act”
What Alex has created in the Algorave movement is quite remarkable. He’s ‘cracked the code’ [literally] of how to transform coding into a live creative […]
Global Open Banking Summit — announcement & notes
“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
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?
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
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
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 […]
A quantum city?
Light pipes for photons, in triangles and loops (in the photo, the oblongs are loops of fibre to create delays and the lines all fibre […]
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 […]
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 […]
GAFA — the extractive industries of the mind
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
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
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
“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: […]
Data as culture – summary
In October 2012, as CEO of the newly-created Open Data Institute, the first work I commissioned was … art. Why art? For me, artists help […]
Arctic continues to lose oldest and thickest ice
[via NSIDC] After a quick initial freeze-up during the second half of September, ice growth slowed substantially during early October. On October 20, 2016, Arctic […]
The tweetable scientific method
Reposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]
The porous city
This is not a thought piece, it’s a call to action. We have failed to create smart cities. We have failed to create truly […]
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 […]
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 […]
NPG expands Linked Data Platform to over a quarter billion triples
This is good news: “Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements….The data is now […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cloudcast :: a next step in the evolution of broadcast
At last, I think the nature of [AV] transmission is beginning to reveal itself. Do we need a new term? Probably – many other terms […]
Sea ice – how well is it recovering?
We’re losing 44,000 square kilometers (17,000 square miles) of ice per year in winter (March-to-March). Last year, we watched the lowest ever sea ice measurement […]
Project Sigma
© 2003 Precis Sigma aims to demonstrate the human scale of infinity. Its aim is to make human infinity a tangible concept and to allow its […]