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Interested in the future of open banking, open pensions, open insurance, open … finance? What do you think? Open Finance
Read moreInterested in the future of open banking, open pensions, open insurance, open … finance? What do you think? Open Finance
Read moreWhat Alex has created in the Algorave movement is quite remarkable. He’s ‘cracked the code’ [literally] of how to transform
Read more“A full view of your financial world” From my perspective, Open Banking is one of the most interesting things happening
Read moreUPDATE 2019-02: briefing note here Working with Europe’s leading climate innovation fund, Climate KIC, we are initiating the creation of an
Read moreFriends in the area tell me that this is the site that everyone is using to monitor air quality in
Read moreWorking with Dance Collection Danse (DCD) we are initiating a project to create a new national archive: a shared history that will
Read moreConstellator Anna Versteeg has launched her new project: https://bbookproject.com “a collaboration between medics, scientists, researchers, writers, artists, designers and the
Read moreCan government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many
Read moreJohn Lewis Partnership has announced a collaboration with London startup CupClub, (disclosure: I’m a non-exec director), which will see the
Read moreWe have completed our comprehensive International review & benchmarking of Open Banking for the Canadian government, covering: Australia Europe Hong
Read moreWorking with DFID, UKaid, International Rescue and the Centre for Global Disaster Protection, we helped lead a day-long innovation lab
Read moreHow the visual language of technology comes around every 1,000 years or so… “talking knots were recording devices fashioned from
Read moreLight pipes for photons, in triangles and loops (in the photo, the oblongs are loops of fibre to create delays
Read moreAt the 2015 CHOGM in Malta I suggested it would be prescient to consider the future of the Commonwealth through
Read moreWe have completed our review of the development of UK open banking for the Canadian government, tracing its history back
Read moreOn Wednesday 18 April, Nesta is hosting the launch of a new report prepared by Gavin Starks. The report entitled
Read moreGreat to see Data Infrastructure gaining traction with the National Infrastructure Commission: 1. https://www.nic.org.uk/publications/data-infrastructure-paper-national-infrastructure-commission/ 2. https://proftomcrick.com/2018/02/03/data-as-infrastructure Background In 2015, while
Read moreContinuing the theme of “do you need a blockchain for that?”, consider the following questions: I am often presented with
Read more“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose.” Larry Fink, CEO, Blackrock “Not all of
Read moreThe Open Banking Standard, which I co-chaired the development of, started to roll out on 13 Jan 2018. Creating open
Read moreI’ve joined the Advisory Board of DECODE, which is exploring tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep
Read moreI joined the judging panel at FutureHack, the first ever Hackathon to take place around Davos during the week of the
Read moreAn experiment with an old track (2002) and more recent video (2018)… [best watched full-screen & if you like repeating
Read moreIn the 20th century ‘globalisation’ was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is
Read moreProvenance raises $800K to launch groundbreaking service for transparency in the food and drinks industry British tech startup Provenance, a
Read moreROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A project that explores whether there is
Read more“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” says The Economist “Data is the new oil”, said
Read more“In celebration of a new installation of work by glass artist Dr Shelley James, The Hospital Club presents a
Read moreIn 2005, I was working with climate change charity Global Cool, and global hedge fund Man Group (in my spare time)
Read moreSlides from Data Protection 2017, https://dma.org.uk/event/data-protection-2017 “Culture is always left to the end in technology revolutions. Make no mistake, the web
Read moreIn October 2012, as CEO of the newly-created Open Data Institute, the first work I commissioned was … art. Why
Read morehttp://www.jocoxfoundation.org/ https://twitter.com/JoCoxFoundation
Read more[via NSIDC] After a quick initial freeze-up during the second half of September, ice growth slowed substantially during early October.
Read moreReposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]
Read moreThis is not a thought piece, it’s a call to action. We have failed to create smart cities. We
Read moreThinking about the sea http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/sunday-review/protecting-the-untamed-seas.html and webcasting http://www.dgen.net/blog/ms-hans and music http://rinse.fm http://store.darkclover.ro/album/sabo http://tidal.lurk.org http://lysuc888.blogspot.co.uk http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/08/03/rhythmus-als-dna-der-musik and long playing things http://longplayer.org/about/
Read moreTo celebrate the news: Click the green flag and press S to start …. then press space bar to launch
Read moreI first saw Bladerunner in 1984, at the Albacon science fiction convention at the Central Hotel in Glasgow. I was
Read moreWell, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some
Read moreNice to see the similarity in thinking here (2008 AMEE logo vs 2013 W3 conf logo)
Read moreA quadrillion lives are in your hands. We often hear people talk of “protecting future generations”,and there is certainly a
Read moreI know it can be hard sometimes to grasp and translate ideas in a single-shot, over the phone, but this
Read moreVery few public figures have influenced me over the years – Patrick Moore was an exception. As a friend of
Read moreMy slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation
Read moreDuring the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around
Read moreI’ve been tracking Arctic sea ice melt for over 5 years – we now seem to have broken the 2007
Read moreThis is good news: “Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework
Read more[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets
Read moreTwo pieces really struck me today. I think we can expect to see this form of direct action increasing. The
Read moreA sneak preview of some of the work I’ll be presenting on Sunday. Below is a radio-image taken by ALMA
Read more“On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
Read moreCalling Virgin Galactic: “if we could get our political leaders to have a summit meeting in space, life on Earth
Read moreI’ve got some thoughts about a different way to create a distributed education. One I think could break through silo’s
Read moreWell, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.
Read moreA tragic and untimely loss. David is still a huge inspiration, his thinking, consideration and actions have touched so many
Read moreHermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and “Hero for the Green Century” in One of His
Read moreA big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station
Read moreWhile mixing up a number of metaphots here, I’m thinking that RTSP and multicast would be very good mechanisms to
Read moreBuilding on this two things: 1) add the cyclic patterns for every form of centralisation->decentralisation technology | politics | finance
Read moreScience, data, internet, ontology, work and non-work themes converging – my post on O’Reilly Radar, reposted below Why open data
Read moreKeywords: WordPress, HostPapa, managed hosting, image upload, fix, migration I recently moved a friend’s blog to a managed (virtual) hosting
Read moreThings wrong with Companies House Crown Copyright data disclosure (which allows free copying) Get the DVD rom of the data
Read more<not for the squemish…> I consider myself to have a high tolerance (albeit a low threshold) for pain: I can
Read moreMany late night discussions over the last year from FOWA, IT@Cork, eTech, Green:net to Geekyoto, and with the AMEE team
Read morePick a future?
Read moreOfficial website: http://www.spannerfilms.net/films/ageofstupid Watch it here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/screening/pp/london_vue_acton
Read more(copy of my post on the O’Reilly Radar) We’re all aware of the emotive language used to polarize the climate
Read moreBelow are some highlights from a great summary on the 2degrees site (which requires registration and I’d recommend if you
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