Top stories published by Mydex in 2019

What is the economic value of data?

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.

Mydex CIC in Mydex

Apr 10, 2019

Microsoft HealthVault

Microsoft Health Vault

After nearly 12 years in operation, Microsoft has announced it is closing its HealthVault — a service that was originally touted as empowering…

Alan Mitchell in Mydex

Feb 18, 2019

Data Trusts and other shaggy dog shortcuts

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…

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Alan Mitchell in Mydex

Feb 4, 2019

A National Strategy for Personal Data

In its discussion paper on the Economic Value of Data the Treasury makes three observations about today’s data status quo:

innovative uses of data can generate powerful positive externalities that may not always accrue to the data creator…

Alan Mitchell in Mydex

Apr 23, 2019

How data sharing really works

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…

Alan Mitchell in Mydex

Feb 11, 2019

Killing many birds with one stone

Sometimes, no matter how difficult it might seem, you just have to go back to basics. To solve a problem you have to go back to the root cause and deal with this root cause. And if you don’t, no matter what sticking plaster solutions you apply, the same old problems…

Alan Mitchell in Mydex

Jan 29, 2019

The Treasury on the Economic Value of Data

Late in 2018 the UK’s Treasury published a discussion paper on the Economic Value of Data. The Paper commits the UK Government to holding “a wider set of conversations that government … over the coming year, as we develop a new National Data Strategy”.