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Designing the UK’s shared data infrastructure

Posted 15th August 20209th October 2020 GavinLeave a commentPosted 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Maxipok Zero – a quadrillion lives are in your hands

Posted 15th February 201331st May 2016 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, internet, politics, science, socialchange, stuff, work

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

AMEE at Strata – talk slides

Posted 2nd October 20129th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, Environment, politics, presentations, science, socialchange, work

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

Posted 11th September 201219th November 2018 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, Culture, data, Government, internet, life, socialchange, Startups, work

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 […]