When ecosystems in nature are working smoothly, things just flow – it seems simple, but there is much underlying complexity. Our mission is to catalyze a functioning ecosystem with many parties participating, using a diversity of business models based on open standards, with a core underlying tenet being that people have control over their data. […]
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What is the Personal Data Ecosystem?
The Startup Circle
1 June 2011 by
These companies are part of the first class of the PDEC Startup Circle. They are developing the tools and systems for personal control over personal data. Architecting user-managed systems to track and manage a new asset class with value in the billions: personal data. Privacy protections are just the tip of the iceberg; the industry […]
PDEC Programs
28 February 2011 by
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 […]
Industry Collaborative
1 January 2011 by
PDEC was founded in 2010 to educate industry, facilitate cooperation, and inspire the development of an ecosystem where individuals are empowered to collect, manage, and obtain value from their own personal data. An advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data Project, PDEC collects, filters, and analyzes trends and ideas within and outside this […]