“A full view of your financial world” From my perspective, Open Banking is one of the most interesting things happening

An open environmental risk standard?

18th November 201818th November 2018 Gavin 0 Comment

Working with Europe’s leading climate innovation fund, Climate KIC, we are initiating the creation of an Open Environmental Risk Standard for

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Air quality data – ripe for disruption?

17th November 201818th November 2018 Gavin 0 Comment

Friends in the area tell me that this is the site that everyone is using to monitor air quality in

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A national archive fit for the 21st century

29th October 20182nd November 2018 Gavin 0 Comment

Working with Dance Collection Danse (DCD) we are initiating a project to create a new national archive: a shared history that will

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BBookproject launches

28th October 20188th January 2019 Gavin 0 Comment

Constellator Anna Versteeg has launched her new project: https://bbookproject.com “a collaboration between medics, scientists, researchers, writers, artists, designers and the

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Can government stop losing its mind?

28th October 20182nd November 2018 Gavin 0 Comment

Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many

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John Lewis to trial CupClub

7th October 20183rd November 2018 Gavin 0 Comment

John Lewis Partnership has announced a collaboration with London startup CupClub, (disclosure: I’m a non-exec director), which will see the

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Report – International review & benchmarking of Open Banking

30th September 20187th November 2018 Gavin 0 Comment

We have completed our comprehensive International review & benchmarking of Open Banking for the Canadian government, covering: Australia Europe Hong

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Exploring refugee financing

19th September 20187th November 2018 Gavin

Working with DFID, UKaid, International Rescue and the Centre for Global Disaster Protection, we helped lead a day-long innovation lab

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Quantum Quipu

1st July 20185th December 2018 Gavin

How the visual language of technology comes around every 1,000 years or so… “talking knots were recording devices fashioned from

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Report – Development of UK open banking

4th April 20182nd November 2018 Gavin

We have completed our review of the development of UK open banking for the Canadian government, tracing its history back

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Data is infrastructure

1st March 20181st March 2018 Gavin

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

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

3rd February 20188th December 2018 Gavin

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

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Difference trains

9th January 20181st February 2018 Gavin

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

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GAFA — the extractive industries of the mind

16th August 201731st January 2018 Gavin

In the 20th century ‘globalisation’ was heralded as the future, but a subtlety that is lost in the ether is

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

12th July 20172nd November 2018 Gavin

Provenance raises $800K to launch groundbreaking service for transparency in the food and drinks industry British tech startup Provenance, a

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Adventures in acoustic cosmology

3rd July 20178th November 2018 Gavin

ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A project that explores whether there is

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Data is not the new oil. Data > Oil

10th May 20174th October 2017 Gavin

“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” says The Economist “Data is the new oil”, said

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TALK — Forms of Knowledge: Calculations and Creativity

10th March 201731st January 2018 Gavin

“In celebration of a new installation of work by glass artist Dr Shelley James, The Hospital Club presents a

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The AMEE story (part one)

10th March 20178th November 2018 Gavin

In 2005, I was working with climate change charity Global Cool, and global hedge fund Man Group (in my spare time)

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DMA – Data Protection 2017

24th February 201724th February 2017 Gavin

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

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#MoreInCommon

17th November 201631st January 2018 Gavin

http://www.jocoxfoundation.org/ https://twitter.com/JoCoxFoundation

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some themes emerging

2nd August 201517th November 2016 Gavin

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/

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Welcome back Philae!

14th June 20154th October 2016 Gavin

To celebrate the news: Click the green flag and press S to start …. then press space bar to launch

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When/where did you first see Bladerunner?

11th May 201419th November 2018 Gavin

I first saw Bladerunner in 1984, at the Albacon science fiction convention at the Central Hotel in Glasgow. I was

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Updated archives

8th May 201419th November 2018 Gavin

Well, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some

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W3 conf logo, meet AMEE logo

22nd February 201331st May 2016 Gavin

Nice to see the similarity in thinking here (2008 AMEE logo vs 2013 W3 conf logo)

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Maxipok Zero – a quadrillion lives are in your hands

15th February 201331st May 2016 Gavin

A quadrillion lives are in your hands. We often hear people talk of “protecting future generations”,and there is certainly a

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The Guardian as damn-you-autocorrect?

2nd February 20133rd June 2016 Gavin

I know it can be hard sometimes to grasp and translate ideas in a single-shot, over the phone, but this

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RIP Patrick Moore

9th December 20128th November 2018 Gavin

Very few public figures have influenced me over the years – Patrick Moore was an exception. As a friend of

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AMEE at Strata – talk slides

2nd October 20129th November 2018 Gavin

My slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation

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New role at the Open Data Institute

11th September 201219th November 2018 Gavin open data

During the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around

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NPG expands Linked Data Platform to over a quarter billion triples

20th July 201216th September 2016 Gavin

This is good news: “Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework

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Energy Identity

19th July 20121st June 2016 Gavin

[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets

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ISEA 2012

29th May 20123rd June 2016 Gavin

I’ll be speaking at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque. Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series

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Listen to the colliding “Antennae Galaxies”

11th October 201131st January 2018 Gavin

A sneak preview of some of the work I’ll be presenting on Sunday. Below is a radio-image taken by ALMA

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The utterance of a cosmological model?

9th October 201119th November 2018 Gavin

“On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.

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Binary Dust …

10th December 201016th September 2016 Gavin

Well, it’s taken a little while to pull together, but Binary Dust is now live. Hope you enjoy.

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Energy transformation is in the hands of the many

19th October 201011th April 2011 Gavin

Hermann Scheer (1944-2010): German Lawmaker, Leading Advocate for Solar Energy and “Hero for the Green Century” in One of His

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Webcasting radio = innovation

16th October 201018th November 2018 Gavin

A big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station

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Streaming the smart grid

1st October 20107th January 2012 Gavin

While mixing up a number of metaphots here, I’m thinking that RTSP and multicast would be very good mechanisms to

stuff

Fixing paths when moving wordpress

24th June 20107th January 2012 Gavin

Keywords: WordPress, HostPapa, managed hosting, image upload, fix, migration I recently moved a friend’s blog to a managed (virtual) hosting

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a bit more than toothache

17th December 200918th November 2018 Gavin

<not for the squemish…> I consider myself to have a high tolerance (albeit a low threshold) for pain: I can

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A Climate of Polarisation

28th January 20099th November 2018 Gavin

(copy of my post on the O’Reilly Radar) We’re all aware of the emotive language used to polarize the climate

Environment

The Climate Change Act

28th November 20089th November 2018 Gavin

Below are some highlights from a great summary on the 2degrees site (which requires registration and I’d recommend if you

Soundcloud Terms – more rights fuzziness

21st November 2008 Gavin

I’ve been a SoundCloud member since Feb 2008. My most recent login threw up a “we have new T+Cs” message

Virtual conferencing at HEAD conference

26th October 200826th October 2008 Gavin

I presented at <head> at the London Hub (in person) on Friday, and today online (from home). I wanted to

Cape Farewell

25th September 2008 Gavin

Cape Farewell sets off today with a slightly different crew to norml; including Jarvis Cocker, KT Tunstall, Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi

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