Archives for October 2010

Let’s rethink the logistics of personal data in government #3: Census

More or less the first post on IdealGov over six years ago was on Finland’s register-based census. But now, thanks to all sorts of developments not least this week’s Mydex launch, we can see how the UK in 2012 2011 could do better than the Finns a …

The Personal Data Story

Yesterday MyDex launched its Community Prototype at IIW. Coverage —

Big long list of #mydex tweets
NewMediaAge: DMA and government departments trial data privacy platform
Civil Society: Consumers can control their data in new data store

The whole r…

UMA meeting co-located with IIW and other news

Thanks to Phil and Kaliya and the gang, I’m happy to say we’re holding an UMA face-to-face meeting at the Computer History Museum on the Monday just prior to IIW XI (pronounced “yewksie”?).
This follows close on the heels of a face-to-face in P…

UMA is Cool

People know I’m an XDI nut and Eve Maler is an UMA nut. And some people wonder if there isn’t a whole lot of overlap between UMA and XDI (and why Eve and I are not fighting a protocol jihad).
Well, the truth is, Eve and I are good friends (especial…