PDEC Programs

Standards Engagement and Development Community Participation: To succeed, an effective personal data ecosystem needs to use open standards to allow many different services to interoperate.    Many of these already exist, or are under development however it is not possible for all companies to engage with all the various standards efforts or to track all the […]

Analysis of Department of Commerce Green Paper Responses

PDEC Analysis of the DOC Green Paper responses. Joseph Boyle completed an analysis of the 120 responses to the DOC Green Paper. Read our blog post, or skim the Google spreadsheet of types of responses.

1 Million People for Personal Data

Any new technology ecosystem has chicken-and-egg problems, and this one is no exception – which comes first, the people who want personal data stores or the companies that offer them? We know the people who want personal data stores and services – our job at PDEC is to help them gather together so it is […]

Personal Archiving Conference

February 24-25th, 2011 – San Francisco Kaliya Hamlin attended the Personal Archiving Conference convened by Jeff Ubois at the Internet Archive. She connected to several efforts that touched on Personal Data storage.