Archives for September 2013

Ecosystems and Systems Models

When ecosystems in nature are working smoothly, things just flow – it seems simple, but there is much underlying complexity. Our mission is to catalyze a functioning ecosystem with many parties participating, using a diversity of business models based on open standards, with a core underlying tenet being that people have control over their data.   […]

The Sole Source

This article is part of the PDEC Field Guide to Internet Trust Models. A Sole Source is an organization that acts as identity provider (IdP) and relying party (RP) for itself. This organization issues all identities that it recognizes, and only trusts identities that it has issued. An organization like this does not federate identities at all. […]

Video: The Personal Data Locker

People often ask us to talk about how things will really work. I think one of the best video’s articulating this is from David Siegel. He created the Video as part of the content for his book Pull. It demonstrates what the opening of your day would be like with your personal data locker. Personal […]