Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.

Do we still think this defines personal data ecosystem?

Did you see this whiteboard? The definition showed up at the 14th IIW unconference in May 2012.  “PDEC Consensus Definition. Interoperability is not about swapping massive amounts of data semantically unchanged from one provider to another, but to easily get authorized by a user to grab specific pieces of information on their behalf from lots […]

Hi, I’m Phil and this is PDEC

Phil introduces PDEC to the Federated Social Web Summit.

Can big data myths inform personal cloud design?

Big data is challenging personal cloud users as much as enterprise IT professionals. New attitudes, ideas, and behavior are as important as new tools.

Personal Data Journal 6: The Affect Economy

We have a new issue of the Personal Data Journal for you.