Forrester points to immense potential of personal information management sector

In new research report that mentions Mydex among other startups in the emerging personal data services sector, Forrester Research’s Fatemeh Khatibloo says “it’s impossible to ignore how attractive these firms become for acquisition”. Our counte…

Design and the new personal data ecosystem

The scale of the design challenge in creating a new personal data ecosystem started to emerge at a first Mydex-Design Council workshop in London earlier this month. Designers, officials, and experts from business and NGOs met at the UK Design Council i…

Which current UK government initiatives would be affected by services such as Mydex?

Which current UK Coalition government initiatives would be fundamentally affected by a new, different and better personal data ecosystem such as Mydex and others are trying to bring about? See some thoughts below (crossposted from idealgovernment.com, …

Open, pseudonymised and personal data: what Government should do next

For some weeks we’ve been hearing further around the Public Data Corporation idea: for commercial partnerships to monetise new categories of government data sets, and a possible expo to sell public data this autumn. Sir Bonar even dictated some Tweet…