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The Theory of Personal Data Mobility has become real hard evidence

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The thinking that data mobility will create new economic value is 10 to 15 years old. I explored the growth potential in my Book “ My Digital Footprint ” in 2008 and I was building on existing economic ideas.  Fast forward 10 years and lots more thinking about the potential upsides and why sharing data creates value. An excellent 2018 report for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Data Mobility: The data portability growth opportunity for the UK economy is such as report. To save some time; my summary of this report is here . Ctrl-Shift who wrote the report have gone on and created a Sandbox to showcase examples and bring the theory to life. The Sandbox is a cross-sector collaboration with Barclays, the BBC, BT, Centrica, Facebook and digi.me Independent observers ( check that outcomes are not made up of biased on one solution) to the Sandbox include the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), Consumers International, the DCMS, t