Open Finance — the FCA points to a future of Open Standards for Shared Data in the UK
The FCA has put forward all the major recommendations we (Open Finance advisory) made in 2019… laying a path towards Open Standards for Shared Data […]
Author: Gavin
Tracking – compare and contrast
What is ‘good behaviour’ in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism? Follow the data: https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com/q/www.dailymail.co.uk%2Fushome%2Findex.html vs https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com/q/yoti.com Compare and contrast. I continue to believe that we need commercial companies to […]
Leadership Learnings — team alignment
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…
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
An evolution in process
The above chart is an evolution of the work of Simon Wardley, which I’ve been following for many years. It feels like we’re in another […]
Icebreaker One announced at UN Climate Action Summit
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
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
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
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
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)
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’
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
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 …
Interested in the future of open banking, open pensions, open insurance, open … finance? What do you think? Open Finance will … in your words: […]
“Extreme sharing is a political act”
What Alex has created in the Algorave movement is quite remarkable. He’s ‘cracked the code’ [literally] of how to transform coding into a live creative […]
OERS briefing note 2019-02-04
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
“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?
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 […]
A quantum city?
Light pipes for photons, in triangles and loops (in the photo, the oblongs are loops of fibre to create delays and the lines all fibre […]
A Digital Commonwealth?
At the 2015 CHOGM in Malta I suggested it would be prescient to consider the future of the Commonwealth through a digital lens. At the […]
Report – Development of UK open banking
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 […]
Can government stop losing its mind?
On Wednesday 18 April, Nesta is hosting the launch of a new report prepared by Gavin Starks. The report entitled ‘Can government stop losing its […]
Data is infrastructure
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…?
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 […]
Are we about to do something useful?
“Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose.” Larry Fink, CEO, Blackrock (who manage $1.7 trillion of active funds) “Not all […]
Open banking is now regulation in the UK — Open APIs matter
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 […]
DECODE – personal data & the public good
I’ve joined the Advisory Board of DECODE, which is exploring tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or […]
SDG Hackathon in Davos
I joined the judging panel at FutureHack, the first ever Hackathon to take place around Davos during the week of the World Economic Forum, as a […]
Difference trains
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
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
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
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
“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
“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)
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
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: […]
Data as culture – summary
In October 2012, as CEO of the newly-created Open Data Institute, the first work I commissioned was … art. Why art? For me, artists help […]
Looking ahead: designing for open
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
Background Please see http://www.jocoxfoundation.org and follow https://twitter.com/JoCoxFoundation
Arctic continues to lose oldest and thickest ice
[via NSIDC] After a quick initial freeze-up during the second half of September, ice growth slowed substantially during early October. On October 20, 2016, Arctic […]
Ecocide
It’s almost as if “Destroying the Earth should be viewed as a crime.” The UN and Interpol report that environmental crime is a growing threat […]
The tweetable scientific method
Reposting from my tweet: ■ Observe→Question→Hypothesise→Create tests →Test→Adapt→More tests→Generalise→Repeat↺ [The Tweetable Scientific Method]
The porous city
This is not a thought piece, it’s a call to action. We have failed to create smart cities. We have failed to create truly […]
some themes emerging
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 […]
Welcome back Philae!
To celebrate the news: Click the green flag and press S to start …. then press space bar to launch Philae. Arrow keys for left […]
When/where did you first see Bladerunner?
I first saw Bladerunner in 1984, at the Albacon science fiction convention at the Central Hotel in Glasgow. I was 13, on my first solo […]
Updated archives
Well, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some of the things my first […]
W3 conf logo, meet AMEE logo
Nice to see the similarity in thinking here (2008 AMEE logo vs 2013 W3 conf logo)
Maxipok Zero – a quadrillion lives are in your hands
A quadrillion lives are in your hands. We often hear people talk of “protecting future generations”. There is certainly a lot of value in thinking […]
The Guardian as damn-you-autocorrect?
I know it can be hard sometimes to grasp and translate ideas in a single-shot, over the phone, but this Guardian “article” recounting their interview […]
RIP Patrick Moore
Very few public figures have influenced me over the years – Patrick Moore was an exception. As a friend of my aunt, he wrote to […]
AMEE at Strata – talk slides
My slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation and distribution, accessibility, provenance, and […]
New role at the Open Data Institute
During the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around the world. Decades since their […]
New record low for Arctic sea ice melt
I’ve been tracking Arctic sea ice melt for over 5 years – we now seem to have broken the 2007 record. There are a few week […]