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 emerging proposals that could affect the ecosystem. PDEC is already proactively engaged in a number of standards technical committees and presenting at workshops of ISO’s that touch on this area including:
- Information Sharing Working Group, Kantara
- Activity Streams, Independent (under the Open Web Foundation Agreements)
- Federated Social Web, W3C
- XRI/XDI, OASIS
- User Managed Access, Kantara
- IDTrust Member section, OASIS
- Do Not Track, W3C Workshop
- Identity in the Browser, W3C Workshop
Other areas of technical community engagement include Augmented Reality, Geolocation and Privacy, the Internet of Subjects in Europe, InCommon the Higher Education Federation in the US, ePortfolio standards, Open Identity Exchange for Trust Frameworks, Data Portability Project, and Quantified Self Movement.
Industry Outreach
Technologies don’t develop in isolation; they have neighboring technology and business communities who need to know about and understand emerging efforts and trends. The Leaders of PDEC leadership leverage relationships with other communities, fostering open communication with them including attending and speaking at their events. Communities include:
The Privacy Community, Security Industry, Children Online, Nonprofit Technology, Big Data, Semantic Web, Green and Sustainable Business, Open Source Communities, Online Communities, Federated Social Web, Finance and Banking, Health, Public Engagement, Web 2.0 Startups, Cloud, Geolocation, Cloud Services, Advertising Industry and Publishing Industry.
Development of the Ecosystem Vision & Evangelism
Our vision for the ecosystem is inclusive of a wide range of potential services and business models, while holding true to the core non-negotiable that people are ultimately in control of the sum of their data. We envision a future where people proactively control the integration, analysis, value extraction, and social collaborative opportunities arising from the digital exhaust from their own lives. We believe its possible to re-wire the existing data ecosystem where individuals are tracked without their consent or awareness is possible, and that there is the potential for more money to be made. To build the vision, PDEC will iterate a cycle of collaborating, producing, and sharing.
Observation Activities:
- PDEC catalogs all books, articles, videos, podcasts, and events touching on the industry on our wiki.
- PDEC follows blogs and social media streams of the individual thought leaders developing the ecosystem, to share in an aggregated form on our blog, and for summarizing the latest developments.
- PDEC tracks mainstream media coverage of the ecosystem.
Production:
- PDEC facilitates the emergence of a common vocabulary and developing a glossary of terms for the ecosystem.
- Educational materials including diagrams, network maps, videos and podcasts reflective of the vision and emerging industry.
Sharing the Vision
- PDEC is a resource for technology and business analysts.
- PDEC Responds to requests to share the vision, with institutions including the US Department of Commerce, the US Federal Trade Commission, the G8 e-Forum, the World Economic Forum Rethinking Personal Data Project, W3C workshops, and from representatives from the Brookings Institute, and the Ashoka Foundation.
- PDEC cultivates relationships with press covering personal data, and is available to comment.