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Today, Scottish Power becomes the first company to start releasing data back to customers as part of the midata programme. Midata is a UK Government-backed initiative to encourage companies to release data back to customers in a portable electronic format so they can use this data for their own purposes. Ctrl-Shift is advising the Department of Business on midata.
We spoke to Andrew Ward, Operations Director at Scottish Power, about its involvement in midata.
What are you doing?
We are releasing customer consumption histories in an electronic format, so they can take their own information to find the…
Today, Scottish Power becomes the first company to start releasing data back to customers as part of the midata programme. Midata is a UK Government-backed initiative to encourage companies to release data back to customers in a portable electronic format so they can use this data for their own purposes. Ctrl-Shift is advising the Department of Business on midata.
We spoke to Andrew Ward, Operations Director at Scottish Power, about its involvement in midata.
What are you doing?
We are releasing customer consumption histories in an electronic format, so they can take their own information to find the…
About a year ago, the World Economic Forum produced a report talking about personal data as 'a new asset class'. Some said it is 'the new oil' energising and greasing the wheels of the information age. But personal data isn't a traditional asset like oil in two critical respects.
First, when we collect, refine, process and use oil it has no feelings about that matter. But personal data - which is about persons - is different. Persons care about how their data is collected, refined and used and by whom. They want to have a say in the matter.
Second, the 'asset'…
Last week Ctrl-Shift hosted an intensive and fascinating two day event for the participants of the French MesInfos programme. MesInfos is run by the French think tank Fing and has similar aims to the UK Government’s midata initiative to release customer data back to customers so they can use it for their own purposes. The delegation included representatives from Société Générale, Le Groupe La Poste, Monoprix and Orange-France Telecom Group.
To help them get a flavor of midata and the changing personal data landscape we lined up an impressive array of briefings from the likes of: Visa Europe; Callcredit;…
Last week Ctrl-Shift hosted an intensive and fascinating two day event for the participants of the French MesInfos programme. MesInfos is run by the French think tank Fing and has similar aims to the UK Government’s midata initiative to release customer data back to customers so they can use it for their own purposes. The delegation included representatives from Société Générale, Le Groupe La Poste, Monoprix and Orange-France Telecom Group.
To help them get a flavor of midata and the changing personal data landscape we lined up an impressive array of briefings from the likes of: Visa Europe; Callcredit;…
It has been a busy month where we have attended and hosted several events. They highlight the way that public opinion, technology, regulatory and commercial pressures are all lining up to unleash a sea change in the personal data landscape. What’s also becoming clear is that the UK is leading the world in giving individuals control over their data. In this issue we’ll tell you about these events, our new research and a smattering of market news.
A £1bn opportunity?
Our latest research (to be published on Monday April 30) is a comprehensive review of all the players in the…
It has been a busy month where we have attended and hosted several events. They highlight the way that public opinion, technology, regulatory and commercial pressures are all lining up to unleash a sea change in the personal data landscape. What’s also becoming clear is that the UK is leading the world in giving individuals control over their data. In this issue we’ll tell you about these events, our new research and a smattering of market news.
A £1bn opportunity?
Our latest research (to be published on Monday April 30) is a comprehensive review of all the players in the…
In our newsletter this month we have new research to tell you about. We also highlight our project looking at the Internet of Things market and round off with some key news, including some international developments.
Decisions Decisions
We’ve published our briefing paper about the development of a revolutionary and disruptive industry for consumer decision-support services. These services empower consumers by helping them to make better decisions and change their own behaviours. The report explains why this revolution is happening now, what forms it’s taking, and what its impacts are: this is a new market that changes…
The US Government’s planned new Privacy Bill of Rights marks a decisive moment in the control shift. The first clause and sentence effectively makes the first half of the control shift ‘official’. They read:
1 INDIVIDUAL CONTROL: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data companies collect from them and how they use it.
The only question now, is how far and how fast the control shift moves (the second, decisive, half being empowering individuals as managers of their own data).
One step forward …
Highly symbolic as it is however, the US Administration’s initiative is…
Following the recent London Green Hackathon, the winning hacks have now been announced. It’s inspiring to see what a few ingenious minds can create over a weekend using only data that’s freely available. When organisations start releasing customer data in a portable, reusable way (for example, as part of the Government's midata programme), innovative applications will offer much, much more. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills, which is running the midata programme, supported the Hackathon to get a flavour of just what kind of innovations the future could hold.
The data used in the hackathon…
Following the recent London Green Hackathon, the winning hacks have now been announced. It’s inspiring to see what a few ingenious minds can create over a weekend using only data that’s freely available. When organisations start releasing customer data in a portable, reusable way (for example, as part of the Government's midata programme), innovative applications will offer much, much more. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills, which is running the midata programme, supported the Hackathon to get a flavour of just what kind of innovations the future could hold.
The data used in the hackathon…
I have to say, I’m puzzled by the reaction so far to the EU proposed new regulations for data protection.
There’s been a lot of debate about a proposed new ‘right to be forgotten’. However, from what I read of the actual draft legislation, the ifs and buts of this new right mean its real impact could be pretty limited. There’s considerable corporate hand-wringing about the penalties for breaking the new law, but the proposed maximum fines would only apply to the most flagrant violations and be tested in the courts.
Hand-ringing about the cost of implementation is more interesting:…
I have to say, I’m puzzled by the reaction so far to the EU proposed new regulations for data protection.
There’s been a lot of debate about a proposed new ‘right to be forgotten’. However, from what I read of the actual draft legislation, the ifs and buts of this new right mean its real impact could be pretty limited. There’s considerable corporate hand-wringing about the penalties for breaking the new law, but the proposed maximum fines would only apply to the most flagrant violations and be tested in the courts.
Hand-ringing about the cost of implementation is more interesting:…
Phew! It has taken us six months but we got there in the end. Today (27 January), in the lead up to Data Protection Day (28th January) we’ve published new research assessing the privacy policies of the UK’s top 100 online retailers – the sector where many consumers most commonly experience the benefits and pitfalls of e-commerce.
We don’t think anyone has ever done this before and now we’ve got to the end, we’re not surprised. The project kicked off in the summer of 2011 when we started to think through an objective assessment of the state of the nation…
So much has happened and changed in 2011 and the control shift is well underway. We've captured below some of the significant milestones that have unfolded this year with links to the relevant news items taken from our Market Watch.
Consumer empowerment
Consumer habits are rapidly changing driven by technology and use of social media. Consumers are becoming hyper connected and active participants in markets and they are recognising the power of acting collectively (think Occupy London). They are changing their shopping habits: according to Reevoo’s research nearly 90% of respondents would not purchase a product before reading others’…
So much has happened and changed in 2011 and the control shift is well underway. We've captured below some of the significant milestones that have unfolded this year with links to the relevant news items taken from our Market Watch.
Consumer empowerment
Consumer habits are rapidly changing driven by technology and use of social media. Consumers are becoming hyper connected and active participants in markets and they are recognising the power of acting collectively (think Occupy London). They are changing their shopping habits: according to Reevoo’s research nearly 90% of respondents would not purchase a product before reading others’…
We're now planning our next research reports and we'd like your input.
We're already committed to two reports (see below) and would like to choose two more from the options list. Feedback very welcome.
Privacy comparisons. Which of the top 100 e-commerce e-tailers has the best privacy policy and which has the worst?
Decision-making market. As a follow-on from our work on personal information management services (PIMS), we look at the broad scope of suppliers in this market and chart what benefits consumers get from making better decisions.
Options for early 2012 -
The Personal Data Store (PDS) market.…
Playing down good news isn’t something one expects from politicians these days, but there’s at least one real driver for growth buried in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement. In it he announced new Open Data measures, and this signals a battery of initiatives that will present new and exciting opportunities to outperform our decreased growth forecast. According to the Cabinet Office the measures will, ‘open up public sector data to make travel easier and healthcare better, and create significant growth for industry and jobs in the UK.’ More Open Data will ‘allow entrepreneurs to develop useful applications for business and consumers’.…
Playing down good news isn’t something one expects from politicians these days, but there’s at least one real driver for growth buried in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement. In it he announced new Open Data measures, and this signals a battery of initiatives that will present new and exciting opportunities to outperform our decreased growth forecast. According to the Cabinet Office the measures will, ‘open up public sector data to make travel easier and healthcare better, and create significant growth for industry and jobs in the UK.’ More Open Data will ‘allow entrepreneurs to develop useful applications for business and consumers’.…
At our recent event ‘To hoard or to share: midata and the personal data-sharing revolution’ Alan Mitchell discussed the Government’s midata programme in the broader context of changes to the personal data landscape. We’ve now published a report on the New Personal Data Landscape that identifies these transformational trends, highlights the emerging market for new personal data management services and analyses the opportunities and threats for organisations.
For the last fifty years organisations have had a monopoly on the collection and use of customer data. But this is changing. Individuals are starting to collect and manage their…
At our recent event ‘To hoard or to share: midata and the personal data-sharing revolution’ Alan Mitchell discussed the Government’s midata programme in the broader context of changes to the personal data landscape. We’ve now published a report on the New Personal Data Landscape that identifies these transformational trends, highlights the emerging market for new personal data management services and analyses the opportunities and threats for organisations.
For the last fifty years organisations have had a monopoly on the collection and use of customer data. But this is changing. Individuals are starting to collect and manage their…
Our midata event takes place tomorrow and we wanted to say thank you to our sponsors Mydex and Callcredit for supporting us. Both organisations provide revolutionary services embracing and underpinning the new personal data landscape.
Tom Ilube from Callcredit will be giving an update at the event on Noddle a ‘poster child’ of midata. The service simply turns the existing personal credit rating on its head. Usual practice for credit reports is that they are requested by the credit provider at the end of a sales process. But when it is launched later this year, Noddle will allow any…
Our midata event takes place tomorrow and we wanted to say thank you to our sponsors Mydex and Callcredit for supporting us. Both organisations provide revolutionary services embracing and underpinning the new personal data landscape.
Tom Ilube from Callcredit will be giving an update at the event on Noddle a ‘poster child’ of midata. The service simply turns the existing personal credit rating on its head. Usual practice for credit reports is that they are requested by the credit provider at the end of a sales process. But when it is launched later this year, Noddle will allow any…
There's been quite a lot of news coverage of the midata launch - which is about time given its potential long term significance.
The BBC has a vox pop from midata chair Prof Nigel Shadbolt.
The Wall Street Journal asks some pertinent questions about how these ideas need to be packaged and presented.
The FT reports on Ctrl-Shift's estimate that the first round of midata could involve 20 million individuals.
Ctrl-Shift's press release about midata identified three new and very large growth markets made possible by midata. The very existence of these markets has been rendered invisible…
Today the following businesses announced their commitment to the midata principle of releasing customers’ data back to them in a portable electronic form: Avoco Secure; billmonitor; British Gas; Callcredit; EDF Energy; E.ON; Garlik; Google; Lloyds Banking Group; MasterCard; Moneysupermarket.com; Mydex; npower; RBS; Scottish Power; Scottish Southern Energy; The UK Cards Association; Three; and Visa.
At Ctrl-Shift we’ve been talking about midata for a while now, partly because we’ve been advising the Government on the programme, but mainly because we genuinely believe it marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in the way companies and customers manage their relationships…
The countdown to Ctrl-Shift’s midata event, 'to hoard or to share: midata and the personal data sharing revolution’, which takes place a week tomorrow, has started. We’re delighted that Richard Anson, Founder and CEO of Reevoo, will be taking the stage.
Reevoo is a great example of the new wave of decision support services using personal data. It’s taken an ad hoc consumer activity - posting the odd review here and there - and turned it into a disciplined, structured process: carefully collecting reviews from only known buyers of products and slicing and dicing the resulting information in multiple…
Theo Bertram, UK Policy Manager for Google, will talk about data openness and transparency at Ctrl-Shift’s forthcoming event ‘to hoard or to share: midata and the personal data sharing revolution’ on 9th November.
Theo will showcase Google Dashboard as a great example of a ‘midata-enabled’ service – a service which releases back to customers the data held on them in an electronic, reusable format. All the data generated by people when they are signed in to their Google Account is transparent on the Dashboard, users have options to update and delete their data, change settings, and control their experience, and…
We’ve a number of leading businesses attending our event on 9th November – ‘to hoard or to share: midata and the personal data revolution’. Attendees include representatives from Aimia, Barclays, billmonitor, British Computer Society, the Cabinet Office, CACI, Consumer Focus, Experian, Google, iRed, Mydex, Noddle, O2, Post Office, Reevoo, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Southern, Visa and Which?.
We’ve planned a mix of presentations and practical, interactive round tables to give plenty of time for delegates to meet and network with each other and to discuss opportunities and ideas.
The day will kick off with the context setting from the…
This month’s issue includes an update on our midata event and the great speakers who are lining up to make this unmissable and a request for your input on a new project we are working on for Consumer Focus. This is followed by some good examples of consumer empowerment in Market news.
To hoard or to share: midata and the personal data sharing revolution
On Monday 17 October, we saw the first significant announcement of the Government's midata programme. The big six energy companies announced their intention to give consumers their energy usage data to help them to…
In case you were wondering if we’ve made a spelling mistake, the Government programme formerly called ‘mydata’ now has the nomenclature and branding ‘midata’. The background to this is that Department for Business Innovation and Skills has been in discussion with a company based in Sweden called ‘Mydata automation AB’ which develops and manufactures technology products for the electronics industry. This company has now asked BIS not to use the ‘mydata’ name for fear of confusion as the programme ramps up and the Charter is launched later this month. Although there is no conflict of interest, BIS has respected their…