Tag Archive: government

The midata Innovation Lab joins the innovators of the future

The midata Innovation Lab (mIL) exhibited at the recent Campus Party Europe event in London. It was fantastic to see it being showcased alongside so many other exciting emerging technologies and services, proving how important the personal data market is becoming. The Digital Confidence Panel, which...

The evolving data sharing economy

On September 1 some important changes to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) came into force – users that are entitled to a public sector dataset can now receive it in a useful form and can re-use it for commercial...

Rethinking Personal Data: an interview with William Hoffman from WEF

The World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data Initiative has reached its third stage. The programme has already defined the value of personal data as an asset class and reinforced the value of trusted data flow. The third stage will bring...

BIS announce the launch of the midata Innovation Lab

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has officially announced the opening of the midata Innovation Lab (mIL) today. Consumer Affairs Minister Jo Swinson said: “Today’s most successful businesses are the ones that are creative about building customer relationships. The new...

midata: where next?

We have published a short, informative paper, ‘midata where next’, following the Government’s midata announcement that it is going ahead with its plans to give consumers a statutory right to request an electronic copy of data companies hold about them....

MesInfos UK visit

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...

April newsletter: UK leading the global market

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....

Spring 2012 research schedule

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...

Mydex and Callcredit showcase their personal data services at midata event

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...

Commons Select Committee review the future of personal data

With cost savings firmly in their sights, the UK Government are paving the way for a wave of new services built around the individual and their data. There is a recognition by the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee...

Launch of public consultation on open data

Francis Maude has today launched a public consultation on open data. The online consultation asks the public, businesses and other interested parties for their views on: how we might enhance a ‘right to data’, establishing stronger rights for individuals, businesses and other...

July newsletter – mydata, ID Assurance briefing and the cookie law

In this month’s issue we highlight our new briefing paper on the government’s Identity Assurance programme, give an update on progress with mydata, and cover the knotty issue of informed consent. This is all followed by a quick round-up of...

mydata: a progress update

The government’s mydata programme is gaining good momentum. This week members of the mydata Working Group, including large corporations from both energy and finance sectors and representatives from consumer groups and regulatory organisations, met for a workshop. Organisations from the...

The UK Government Identity Assurance Programme

Instead of establishing a huge, centralised National Identity Scheme, the Government wants to establish a decentralised market of competing private sector identity providers. Each will provide an identity assurance service, so that public sector and other providers can be confident...

May newsletter

The May newsletter covers the Government’s mydata, a Europe wide assessment of consumer empowerment, a market round-up and to plug your chance to meet the Control Shift team next week. The Government’s mydata initiative – covered in our last newsletter...

UK in Division 2 for consumer empowerment

A new EU-wide research survey published in April 2011, has shown that the UK lags behind many other countries according to a consumer empowerment index. The research revealed that less than 50% of the 56,000 respondents (in 29 countries answering...

Hidden Radicalism behind Government’s mydata strategy

The Government’s new programme ‘Better Choices: Better Deals’ represents a significant acceleration in the trend towards consumer empowerment. They even call it a ‘Consumer Empowerment Strategy’. We’ve prepared a mydata briefing on what this means for organisations. It’s free! ...

Budgeting for service redesign

Well, the nervously awaited emergency budget has arrived, and a collective sigh of relief is almost audible across the country ‘not as bad as I’d expected’ seems to be the general feel. But I’m afraid the worst is yet to...

Skunkworks and Asborometers

Today’s announcement that the government is looking to get public input (a sort of crowdsourcing, perhaps?) into the upcoming cuts to public service is further confirmation that there is a seismic shift in the world of public services. The previous...

How do we help UK government shift control of personal data to the individual?

Fundamental, radical shift of control over personal data back to the individual is on the agenda whichever main party wins the next election. From the Labour manifesto yesterday: We will explore how to give citizens direct access to the data...

CIOs and the control shift

HMG’s Chief Information Officer John Suffolk has posted on the role of the CIO in the light of the control shift I think there is a move towards the CIO title being taken over by a very important person indeed...