What’s Up at the Information Sharing Working Group? Toward Voluntary Sharing of Information: A Legal Framework

By Judi Clark and Joe Andrieu The Information Sharing Work Group, a working group at Kantara, has been working for several years on translating VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) principles into a legal framework for user-driven information sharing. The basic idea is simple: before actually sharing information, people should be able to establish appropriate terms of […]

Robert Cringley on Personal Data

Cringley writes here in The Decline and Fall of Facebook My interest is in what follows Facebook, which I think must be its disintermediation by all of us reclaiming our personal data, possibly through our embracing the very HTML5 that Roger loves so much. The trend is clear from “the computer is the computer” through […]

PDEC Startup Circle Launched concurrent with World Economic Forum meeting

Who: Kaliya Hamlin, Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium (PDEC) executive director What: Ms. Hamlin announces PDEC’s first class of members in its Startup Circle When: Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at 1300 Vienna, Noon London, 5:00 AM New York and 3:00 AM San Francisco Where: Vienna, Austria Why: The first thirteen Startup Circle companies are building tools […]

WEF: Rethinking Personal Data

Kaliya Hamlin will be attending this World Economic Forum event in Vienna, Austria. June 7, 2011.