My Digital FootPrint

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

peeling back the layers — thanks to  James Abell  for the minecraft illustration. We love the model or analogy about peeling an onion. We peel back one layer to reveal a new similar layer, each layer enabling us to offer a new idea or thinking and adding complexity. Often we use this model for ourselves to get to our inner core and what values drive us. C onsent:  in digital context is being explored in many places by many people.  Kantara  and MEF are two good examples. However, I am finding that as I peel, explore and uncover the “onion” of layered consent, I find that the next layer is not more onion [ with deeper inner meaning driving me to a core philosophy ] but rather I find something totally new, indeed I don;t start with an onion but a coconut. Inside my coconut I find an orange, then a Kiwi, then a grapefruit, passing a passion fruit and then a dragon fruit. Peeling this inner core, I hope to find inner meaning but it only reveals a two spouted teapot! Why use di

The start of this was a directed ideation from  Ian Oppermann  NSW Chief Data Scientist and CEO of NSW Data Analytics Centre. The Challenge: How do you design a privacy preserving data sharing framework based on these papers. They are well written and provide a very good framework for the question. Privacy in Data Sharing — A Guide for Business and Government (Nov 2018) Data Sharing Frameworks — Technical White paper (Sept 2017) A write up from the original work is here.  https://medium.com/@tonyfish/black-swans-and-the-value-of-sharing-data-portability-mobility-900cf12d0c7c Focus Safe People, Safe Projects Within this context, what is a safe project and safe people for a privacy perserviing data sharing idea? Where “safe” means in this context — privacy preserving. Ignoring other factors such as sensitivity, importance, ethics and outcomes. Assumption 1. The reconstruction/ re-identification problem PII (personally identifiable information) can be created from

Trust is not a destination! The purpose of this thought piece is to bring together strategic thinking on data, governance and trust values into one argument. The recommendation is that boards need to wake up There are two existing models of trust that are relevant to business. Let’s call them “experience trust” and “emotional trust.” We are going to explore two new models of trust, explain why they are so disruptive and create a strawman as a way of thinking about the way forward. Experience trust  is simple to grasp. Think about using your bank card, pushing the brake pedal in a car, getting on a plane, charging your phone, posting a picture on Facebook, using a vape pipe, drinking water, taking a taxi, texting, etc. Every time you do something the ‘experience’ functions, within reason, as you expect it to. Expected feedback loops reinforce a message that whatever you use can be trusted. Society depends on experience trust. It makes life simple and convenient. As the old

I wrote the original post in March 2010, about the screens of life and the competition to get in your data from the server to the brighly lit screen. The Six screens of life become 7 #mdfp Dark Screen  When writing my digital footprint I updated the Six screen’s of life work originally developed for mobile web 2.0 (extract on read/write web) However, I have now realised that I missed one out.  What is said in summary is that for the most part, we are consumers of content. In our daily lives we consume professionally created, produced and edited content from traditional and new media providers on our ‘six screens of life’. These screens are divided into two broad categories, big screens and small screens, each with three subgroups as per figure 2.   6 screens of life Both for big and small screens, the user has traditionally been a passive receiver of content (content has been broadcast to the user) or the user has been seen as a member of a carefully controlled and managed a