Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium Rethinking personal data | World Economic Forum-Rethinking personal data Report: Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage, February 2013 Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage, prepared in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, examines the need for new approaches in the policies which enable the managing of personal data in ways that are flexible, adaptive and contextually driven. The report highlights outcomes from a nine month, multistakeholder, global dialogue on how the principles for using personal data may need to be refreshed to ensure they protect the rights of individuals, unlock socio-economic value and are fit for the complexities of a hyperconnected world. A key insight from the report notes that the age of Big Data creates both new opportunities and risks, particularly as they relate to the privacy of individuals. The report calls for the importance of establishing an updated set of principles and the means to uphold them in a hyperconnected world. Who owns personal data?
The new personal data landscape At our recent event ‘To hoard or to share: midata and the personal data-sharing revolution’ Alan Mitchell discussed the Government’s midata programme in the broader context of changes to the personal data landscape. We’ve now published a report on the New Personal Data Landscape that identifies these transformational trends, highlights the emerging market for new personal data management services and analyses the opportunities and threats for organisations. For the last fifty years organisations have had a monopoly on the collection and use of customer data. But this is changing. Individuals are starting to collect and manage their own data and, as a result of this, there is an emerging market for personal data management services to capitalise on this opportunity. As individuals become managers of their own information they are becoming the natural point of integration of data about them and this is creating new sets of aggregated data of enormous value.
EVRYTHNG The growth opportunity of Personal Information Management Services Playing down good news isn’t something one expects from politicians these days, but there’s at least one real driver for growth buried in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement. In it he announced new Open Data measures, and this signals a battery of initiatives that will present new and exciting opportunities to outperform our decreased growth forecast. According to the Cabinet Office the measures will, ‘open up public sector data to make travel easier and healthcare better, and create significant growth for industry and jobs in the UK.’ Ctrl-Shift is right behind Open Data measures, but we’re also convinced that the greatest opportunities to innovate and drive value creation lie when you add personal data to the mix. Up to now the potential of the PIMS market has been rendered invisible by organisation-centric assumptions about data gathering and management but these assumptions are being challenged. Secondly the market for life management services.
LAPA - social lost & found | iOS & Android | key finder , pet locator , object tracker | Facebook integrated - Cisco Firefox Intent Data, the Key to Internet Marketing Detailing how first-party digital intent data can be used by marketers and advertisers, and why intent data is not the same as social data. Startup idea enclosed. Good to see Techcrunch write this weekend about data and its potential impact on ecommerce. But not only did they miss the point about personalization, they missed the biggest opportunity in the space. The biggest opportunity isn’t from retail sites building better personalization engines or mining social data, but in the social clipping and curation sites (i.e. intent engines) leveraging their curation and inspiration features to build ecommerce and affiliate platforms to power their built-in business models. Data, data, everywhere. And in each clip, store, share, pin, re-pin, tumble, re-blog is a tremendous amount of data. Granted, the data isn’t clean, and the intent behind each action may not be clear, but it’s a signal of intent and desire just like a search and a click. Why? Now, this isn’t a trivial task. Selling Intent Data
5 Best Open Source Tools to Create Scalable Online Social Networking Platforms | Tech Drive-in - Cisco Firefox While Facebook and Twitter is the core of the Internet’s social networking world, some companies and organizations may have reasons to set up their own social networking applications. For some companies, setting up their own social network is a good option because the public Internet may not be secure enough for certain conversations concerning sensitive proprietary information or customer contact information. Top 5 Open Source Social Networking Software Deploying your own uniquely branded social media tool with open source software could be a good choice especially if you plan to differentiate your product through custom development built on top of the open source tools. There are many open source social networking toolsets available and it can sometimes become quite overwhelming and cumbersome even to find out which one best suits your organization's requirements. Dolphin: Built on the PHP platform, Dolphin is a fully scalable and customizable social media application.
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