If order-of-magnitude reductions in the cost of key resources transform societies and economies, where do these cost reductions come from?
A new resource with transformational potential; an order-of-magnitude reduction in the cost of making this resource available. What happens when these two things come together? Answer: the ways economies and societies work are reconfigured. And peoples’ daily lives are…
What’s the biggest obstacle to our society’s ability to unleash the full personal, social and economic potential of personal data?
In our experience, one of the prime candidates has to be the quest for ‘monetisation’. This isn’t just about the greed of…
Over the last 15 years, Governments around the world including the UK, along with many private sector firms, have poured huge amounts of time and money into attempts to solve the problem of online identity assurance (that is, making sure…
What is the one, single thing the UK Government could do to boost the operation and performance of the digital economy? In this blog, we explore the massive untapped potential of Verified Attributes.
The BBC reports today that web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee is working on a technology and start-up to give people control over their data.
The BBC quotes Sir Tim as saying:
Implemented the right way, data portability could help address a structural flaw that’s constraining and distorting the workings of our current data economy. If the only entities able to collect and use personal data are large organisations, then…
