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Leadership Learnings — team alignment

Posted 8th October 202020th October 2020 GavinLeave a commentPosted in business, Culture, Startups

Given the number of times that people/startups ask me for insights about team-building (and the fact I’m building upon them with Icebreaker One under lockdown conditions) […]

Tipping points…

Posted 29th September 202029th September 2020 GavinLeave a commentPosted in business, climate change, Environment, Finance

Our transition to net-zero is underway — how can we ensure it is provable, robust, secure and fair? via The FT we have The world’s largest oil […]

Designing the UK’s shared data infrastructure

Posted 15th August 20209th October 2020 GavinPosted in business, data, Government, publications, research

Smart Data: Research on Consent, Liability & Authentication The government has estimated that the impact of personal data mobility enabled productivity and efficiency is worth […]

Data. Ecosystem. Market design?

Posted 16th July 20207th September 2020 GavinPosted in business, Culture, data

Digital ≠ website design ; Digital = market design What is the whole-of-market design for data-sharing? Rather than giving a detailed narrative at this stage, […]

How Can We Stop Losing Our Minds?: Producing a Legacy From Development Projects, Not Just a Document

Posted 21st May 202021st May 2020 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Government, publications

Have you ever run, funded or been part of a development project? Have you ever gotten to the end of it and felt that, […]

Calling all dance & ‘digital collection’ enthusiasts

Posted 7th May 20207th May 2020 GavinPosted in Culture

We are launching a new two-year development program to help connect people with DCD’s digital collection. And of course, as usual, it’s not just about […]

Data governance — how to move fast and not break things

Posted 1st April 202010th April 2020 GavinPosted in Culture, data, Environment, Finance, Government, socialchange, stuff, work

I’ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to ‘help’. To help frame a potential response that isn’t […]

Tip of the data iceberg

Posted 20th January 202020th January 2020 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, Finance

In City AM [Re: Why Open Banking is the next finance revolution] As co-chair of the original Open Banking Standard, it’s great to see the […]

Open Finance — Designing for Cohesion and Interoperability

Posted 19th December 201919th December 2019 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, Finance, publications

The Financial Conduct Authority set up an Advisory Group on open finance to discuss the potential of extending open banking-like data-sharing to a wider range […]

Open Banking, its evolution into Open Finance and beyond

Posted 11th October 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, energy, Environment, Finance, work

Open Banking—is a regulated standard that addresses data sharing across the banking sector. It addresses: Rights Liability models Dispute resolution and redress Consent Security Legal […]

Icebreaker One announced at UN Climate Action Summit

Posted 24th September 201929th November 2019 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Finance, Startups

After an 18-month industry consultation, we opened Icebreaker One at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. –> More information here on the new IcebreakerOne.org […]

Designing for people not things — a digital archive in the age of the web

Posted 2nd August 2019 GavinPosted in arts, business, Culture, data

Working with Dance Collection Danse (DCD) we have created a vision for their new national digital archive: a shared history that could be a co-created and co-managed […]

Longplayer Day 2019

Posted 21st June 201923rd June 2019 GavinPosted in arts

I opened the second edition of Longplayer Day, a peripatetic festival that takes inspiration from the themes and philosophies that underpin Jem Finer’s one-thousand-year-long musical […]

IcebreakerOne announced at the UN DRR Global Platform

Posted 13th May 201919th June 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Environment, Finance

We announced of our first open consultation for IcebreakerOne at the UN DRR Global Platform on 13 May 2019.

The Data Spectrum: defining Shared & Closed

Posted 6th May 20196th May 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture

One of the things I’m most proud of creating at the ODI is the Data Spectrum, to us help understand the language of data. When […]

Codename: Icebreaker One (IB1)

Posted 16th March 201919th December 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Culture, Environment, stuff

Development of the Open Environmental Risk Standard continues: this week, we’ve been working on a one-pager to translate what we’re doing in to more simple […]

Some thoughts on the ‘long-shot’

Posted 8th March 201914th March 2019 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment, Finance

I recently re-watched The Big Short. … and have, in many conversations, been testing out the idea that we are approaching a potential ‘market collapse’ […]

OERS — an introduction

Posted 22nd February 201917th March 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Environment, Finance

Yesterday, we hosted the kick-off meeting for the Open Environmental Risk Standard start up team. This is our summary of that conversation. Over 50% of […]

Your voice: on the future of financial services …

Posted 14th February 201914th February 2019 GavinPosted in business, Finance, Government

Interested in the future of open banking, open pensions, open insurance, open … finance? What do you think? Open Finance will … in your words: […]

OERS briefing note 2019-02-04

Posted 4th February 201917th March 2019 GavinPosted in Culture, Environment, Finance, Government

Based on six months of consultation we are developing an Environmental Risk Constellation (a federated partnership programme) to: develop an open standard for sharing environmental […]

Global Open Banking Summit — announcement & notes

Posted 6th December 20185th May 2020 GavinPosted in Culture, data, Finance, Government

“A full view of your financial world” From my perspective, Open Banking is one of the most interesting things happening right now. It’s like going […]

An open environmental risk standard?

Posted 18th November 20187th February 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, science

UPDATE 2019-02: briefing note here Working with Europe’s leading climate innovation fund, Climate KIC, we are initiating the creation of an Open Environmental Risk Standard for […]

Air quality data – ripe for disruption?

Posted 17th November 201818th November 2018 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment

Friends in the area tell me that this is the site that everyone is using to monitor air quality in the CA wildfire region. A […]

A national archive fit for the 21st century

Posted 29th October 201822nd February 2019 GavinPosted in arts, Culture, data, media, web

Working with Dance Collection Danse (DCD) we are initiating a project to create a new national archive: a shared history that will be a co-created and co-managed […]

BBookproject launches

Posted 28th October 20188th January 2019 GavinPosted in Culture, life, projects, science

Constellator Anna Versteeg has launched her new project: https://bbookproject.com “a collaboration between medics, scientists, researchers, writers, artists, designers and the general public, exploring science and […]

Can government stop losing its mind?

Posted 28th October 201831st January 2020 GavinPosted in business, data, Government, internet, publications, work

Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many reasons why anything new is […]

John Lewis to trial CupClub

Posted 7th October 20183rd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Startups

John Lewis Partnership has announced a collaboration with London startup CupClub, (disclosure: I’m a non-exec director), which will see the subscription service trialled within the […]

Report – International review & benchmarking of Open Banking

Posted 30th September 20187th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, Government, publications

We have completed our comprehensive International review & benchmarking of Open Banking for the Canadian government, covering: Australia Europe Hong Kong India Japan Mexico Malaysia […]

Exploring refugee financing

Posted 19th September 20187th November 2018 GavinPosted in Finance, Government

Working with DFID, UKaid, International Rescue and the Centre for Global Disaster Protection, we helped lead a day-long innovation lab that convened over 40 experts […]

Quantum Quipu

Posted 1st July 201825th October 2019 GavinPosted in arts, Culture, data, Finance, Government, science

How the visual language of technology comes around every 1,000 years or so… “talking knots were recording devices fashioned from strings. The Inca people used […]

Report – Development of UK open banking

Posted 4th April 20182nd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, Government, publications

We have completed our review of the development of UK open banking for the Canadian government, tracing its history back to the 2007-2008 financial crisis […]

Data is infrastructure

Posted 1st March 20181st March 2018 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, Culture, data, work

Great 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 at the ODI, I helped […]

A blockchain for that…?

Posted 7th February 20189th September 2020 GavinPosted in business

Continuing the theme of “do you need a blockchain for that?”, consider the following questions: I am often presented with “We use blockchain to solve […]

Open banking is now regulation in the UK — Open APIs matter

Posted 3rd February 20188th December 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Finance, work

The Open Banking Standard, which I co-chaired the development of, started to roll out on 13 Jan 2018. Creating open APIs is part of the […]

Difference trains

Posted 9th January 20181st February 2018 GavinPosted in media, music

An experiment with an old track (2002) and more recent video (2018)… [best watched full-screen & if you like repeating patterns with tiny variations] Music […]

GAFA — the extractive industries of the mind

Posted 16th August 201731st January 2018 GavinPosted in Culture, data, stuff

In the 20th century ‘globalisation’ was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is that this was only if […]

Provenance raises $800K for blockchain-based product tracking + appoints Starks as Chair

Posted 12th July 20172nd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Startups

Provenance raises $800K to launch groundbreaking service for transparency in the food and drinks industry British tech startup Provenance, a digital platform enabling brands and […]

Adventures in acoustic cosmology

Posted 3rd July 20178th November 2018 GavinPosted in arts, astronomy, Culture, data, media, music, performances, presentations, projects, publications, science

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A project that explores whether there is a musical equivalent to the […]

Data is not the new oil. Data > Oil

Posted 10th May 201719th October 2020 Gavin4 CommentsPosted in business, climate change, data, internet, science, socialchange, stuff, work

“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” says The Economist “Data is the new oil”, said Clive Humby and many others Some […]

TALK — Forms of Knowledge: Calculations and Creativity

Posted 10th March 201731st January 2018 Gavin1 CommentPosted in arts, presentations

“In celebration of a new installation of work by glass artist Dr Shelley James, The Hospital Club presents a panel discussion about the science […]

The AMEE story (part one)

Posted 10th March 20178th December 2020 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, Environment, science, Startups, work

In 2005, I was working with climate change charity Global Cool and global hedge fund Man Group (in my spare time) to try and create a global […]

DMA – Data Protection 2017

Posted 24th February 201724th February 2017 GavinPosted in business, Culture, data, work

Slides 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 of data is a revolution: […]

Looking ahead: designing for open

Posted 31st December 20162nd March 2019 GavinPosted in stuff

The dataverse We are in an anthropogenic age in which the digital and physical blur. Where there are more sensors than people.Where everything, whether physical or […]

#MoreInCommon

Posted 17th November 20162nd March 2019 GavinPosted in life

Background Please see http://www.jocoxfoundation.org and follow https://twitter.com/JoCoxFoundation

some themes emerging

Posted 2nd August 201517th November 2016 GavinPosted in arts, astronomy, climate change, data, media, music, projects, publications, science, socialchange, webcasting, work

Thinking 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/ and cosmology/topology http://www.binarydust.org/2012/09/21/evolving-language http://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2014/simulations-reveal-unusual-death-for-ancient-stars and […]