My Digital FootPrint

So here is an observation…. If you are unique and your data is unique and I can prove you are you from your data, does that equal success? What more will social verification give, validation that your image and your name have a relationship? Will success be when the only person who can be you is you?

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Who hasn’t sent a text message saying “I’m on my way” when it wasn’t true or fudged the truth a touch in their online dating profile? But Jeff Hancock doesn’t believe that the anonymity of the internet encourages dishonesty. In fact, he says the searchability and permanence of information online may even keep us honest. Jeff Hancock studies how we interact by email, text message and social media blips, seeking to understand how technology mediates communication.

Boston consulting group the value-of-our-digital-identity from Fred Zimny

The BBC has a long term program called the moral maze hosted with Michael Buerk.  This was a good one exploring the issues of social media. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ntgw5/Moral_Maze_The_Moral_Code_of_Social_Media/ However, as we begin to employ more computer-controlled objects, cars, robots, and machines that need to operate autonomously in our real-time chaotic environment, situations will inevitably arise in which the software has to choose between a set of tragic, unpleasant, bad, even horrible, alternatives. Example 1. You’re driving along in your car which has an insurance protection system on and can see that a n uninsured poor driver is about to break a red light in front of you that will lead to a crash.  The automatic system takes over and you come to a sudden halt, however the person behind you now takes evasive action, swerves to avoid you and hits the same uninsured driver killing the person instead of you. Example 2. Your self-driving car crosses a bridge as

What can we do to make data more human in 2013? Executives need to understand and experience data ownership.   We generate data but we cannot visualise it.  Why not provide tools to visualize and explore data, and show the worth and utility of the information that you can derive.  Could make for an interesting board meeting. Executive lead transparent, open and balanced conversations about data and ethics.   I start with asking questions that help form models for thinking about data and how leadership teams come to their own opinions on data, based on personal experience and therefore have different perspectives about data.  Differences and gaps in thinking leads to friction about how to treat their own personal data, how to treat customer data and gaps between company branding messaging and expectations.  These gaps can lead to frictions which mean teams cannot move forward with a common approach on how to treat customer data. Here are previous blog that bring these models together. H