This is the fifth in a series of blogs which provide edited extracts of key points made by…
Should countries develop national strategies for data in order to release its full potential…
It’s over 13 years since we at Mydex Community Interest Company set up shop.
It is election time in the UK. What should the political parties be putting in their manifestos? We think it would go something like this:
“The way our society currently collects and uses personal data is deeply unfair, often harmful, economically…
Often when we talk to organisations about a new personal data infrastructure we discover they’re labouring under a number of misapprehensions. The most common misapprehension is that if data is stored in an individual’s personal data store the organisation can no longer…
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We ask this question because the UK’s Treasury is asking it, to inform the development of a National Strategy for Data. If we get the answers wrong, we could spend many years in the doldrums. But if we get them right, huge new opportunities could be opened up.
Over the last year or so a buzz has grown up around the concept of ‘data trusts’. The OECD has begun work on designing and building data trusts. And in its recent paper on the economic value of data, the Treasury says the UK Government is “exploring data…
