Tag Archive: Innovation

Executive summary: Personal Information Management Services: An analysis of an emerging market

A new market is emerging for Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) – services that help individuals gather, manage and use information (including personal information) to make better decisions and manage their lives better. Ctrl-Shift finds that a mature market for...

Flourishing in a Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) environment

In a world of Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) individuals (consumers, customers, citizens) are empowered with sources of data, analytics, tools and technologies that were once the sole preserve of large, incumbent product or service providers. As PIMS change the...

Guest post: ‘Rebuilding the Internet around you’ by Graham Hill

In this blog post Ctrl-Shift associate Graham Hill explains the vision behind the HAT project and what it is trying to do. We live in an increasingly connected world, where much of our lives is being captured digitally as data:...

The economics of identity

Every day individuals have to undertake a range of information tasks such as ‘fill in a form’ or ‘prove you are who you say you are’ when dealing with organisations. This second task of identity assurance is critically important for...

A landmark report will transform the debate on personal data

Two reports to the US President on Big Data and Privacy are likely to transform the debate about the future of personal data. The first report on the broad issues is quite anodyne. But the second one on the technology...

Out of the compliance ghetto – into the fire?

Slowly but surely, personal data – how organisations collect it and use it – is becoming a brand issue. Whether its press articles highlighting practices which surprise and dismay consumers and citizens, or the pressure of forthcoming EU data protection...

A year of transition for personal data

It’s really simple: personal data is valuable and useful to the people whose data it is. Yes it’s valuable to organisations, but it’s also valuable to individuals who can use it to do the things that organisations do with data:...

Alan Mitchell discusses ‘why now?’ for the Personal Information Economy 2014 event

In this 3 minute video, Ctrl-Shift’s strategy director Alan Mitchell explains why now is the ideal moment for Ctrl-Shift to bring together organisations, professionals and leading thinkers in a unique conference dedicated to the new and rapidly transforming personal information...

midata: from talking to doing

In late 2014, Jo Swinson, Minister for Consumer Affairs, wrote to the CEOs of companies in the regulated industries (banking, energy, mobile phones) asking them to report on progress made in implementing midata. midata is an initiative to encourage the...

The evolving personal information economy

At Ctrl-Shift we constantly monitor the market for personal data and personal data services via weekly newsletters like Market Watch. We’ve summed up the key developments of the last year in our new Personal Information Economy Round-Up. Most of us...

midata learnings

The midata Innovation Lab (mIL) wound up Phase One yesterday with the publication of a report highlighting the key learnings, and a speech by Consumer Affairs Minister Jo Swinson at a showcase event where she predicted “in a few years time,...

midata Innovation Lab launches new apps

The midata Innovation Lab (mIL) today published five ground-breaking new apps focused on key issues and tasks in consumers’ lives. The apps, the product of intensive collaboration between the mIL’s 26 Founding Partners, are designed to demonstrate to companies, individuals and policy makers the...

An interview with personal data service Handshake

Handshake is a new app and web service (in beta) that aims to help consumers to negotiate a price for their personal data and sell it directly to companies. Consumers create profiles choosing how much data they want to share....

One step forward …

Just back from the Digital Enlightenment Forum in Brussels where Ctrl-Shift were one of the plenary speakers. A number of impressive people were there including Tim Berners Lee, Kim Cameron (of ‘laws of identity’ fame), Robert Madeline (Director General of...

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...

Empowering consumers with applications & services from the midata Innovation Lab

The midata Innovation Lab (mIL) is the world’s fastest-built data innovation lab, bringing together the most interesting and varied datasets (integrated around individuals) for brands, developers and consumer bodies to innovate with. The mIL is made up of nine ‘learning...

Internet of Things ‘cluster’ for smart transport

Ctrl-Shift is working on a ground breaking Technology Strategy Board funded project called Stride which, over the last few months, has created, and aims to sustain, a thriving Internet of Things ‘cluster’ for smart transport. Initially focused on the East of...

An interview with DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is search engine with a unique selling point that it puts users’ privacy first. The Prism scandal created concern among web users as to what information companies like Google collect about them and how this data is used. In...

midata Innovation Lab launches

Seeing is believing. Many people can’t see the opportunity of something really new until they can see a working example. At Ctrl-Shift we can say that one day there will be as many services based on the permission based sharing...

Smart Transport Internet of Things Ecosystem (Stride)

We have created a short, nifty video which explains the Stride (Smart Transport Internet of Things Data Ecosystem) project that Ctrl-Shift has started working on with Cambridge University, Dartt, Aimes Grid Services and project lead BT. The video covers Stride’s aims,...

Driving the value of the UK Internet of Things market

Ctrl-Shift is kicking off a groundbreaking year long project helping to shape and develop the UK Internet of Things market. It will be a voyage of discovery where we will apply our expertise in how to catalyse data led value...