MyData 2016 Blog

September 2, 2016 – MyData 2016 Conference, Helsinki Earlier this year, Siginicat reported that 40% of Brits had abandoned a banking on-boarding process. Interestingly, a significant portion of the same research participants cited length of time and the requirement to give up too much information as their primary reasons for... Read More

My Data has conceptually a strong link with data protection as many types of data concerning people, such as health data involve personal data. Data protection laws and regulations are intended to control how personal data is used and thus are about safeguarding our right to privacy, which is enshrined... Read More

Volunteers are the spine of any event, making sure all the preparations go smoothly, being there to run the actual event and making sure all the mess is cleaned up afterwards. Being first event in human centric data in Helsinki of such scale, we are looking for all the great... Read More

What is MyData? MyData refers to human-centric ways of organizing personal data. MyData is not a business or a product; it’s a conceptual framework. Data has become increasingly valued as a business resource. Meanwhile concern over privacy raises questions and the fragmentation of data poses challenges for its effective utilization.... Read More

MyData Ultrahack – let’s hack some human-centric, ethical MyData solutions based on our personal data! Say what….!? Personal Data is important to us all – NOW. It should be important for you – your angle might be for example privacy, efficiency, new business or just personal control. We’re sure the... Read More

The founder and president of Open Knowledge, Rufus Pollock, had an interview with Molly from Open Knowledge Finland.   “MyData is an initiative born from the Finnish chapter of Open Knowledge (OKFFI), how do you feel about that?” It’s inspirational and satisfying. Not just personally – it’s just wonderful to... Read More

For 5 years now, the MesInfos team (by Fing, a french NGO) has been exploring the Self Data scenario: the collection, use and sharing of personal data by and for individuals, under their complete control and designed to fulfill their own needs and aspirations. To improve one’s self-knowledge, evaluate past... Read More

Today, KaPA (National Architecture for Digital Services) takes the keyboard and challenges YOU to our hackathon!   One thing that public government knows how to do is collect data on its citizens. From your tax and health records to whether you are licensed to drive a car, national and local officials... Read More

“If I can use your data, you can too… however you please.” The MesInfos project on Self Data. Fing is a French non-profit organization, which focus on digital uses and digital transformations. We are both a think tank & a do-tank. We intend to produce new and actionable ideas, for public... Read More

The Ultrahack MyData Hackathon will start late afternoon Tuesday 30th August 2016 and run continuously through to early evening Thursday 1st September 2016. After 48 hours of adrenaline filled action, teams will present their MyData masterpieces late Thursday and celebrate the shared Hackathon achievement. It is free to enter the... Read More

The Data universe is expanding with an accelerating speed due to the vast amount of data that mobile devices and applications are creating. Often we are making a digital footprint in situations where  we don’t intuitively understand that our data is being saved. The competition for who gets to be... Read More

How data intertwines with life on basic level First you have the individual, John Smith, who lives; eats, exercises and sleeps. In order for John to organize his life and take better care of himself, he wants to track his activity level, his sleep habits and his finances. These are... Read More

MyData 2016 conference is held in Helsinki, capital of Finland. We encourage you to explore and experience the unique modern city with over half a million residents. These blog posts will be combined later into a Visitors Guide to be published on the website. Suomenlinna maritime fortress Picture by Jussi... Read More

Having a hard time to explain personal data, MyData or data trails to people? Yes, we do. That’s why we have made this infomercial about MyData and MyData 2016 conference. Enjoy!

MyData is both an alternative vision and guiding technical principles for how we, as individuals, can have more control over the data trails we leave behind us in our everyday actions. The core idea is that we, you and I, should have an easy way to see where data about... Read More

Paris, France — Representatives from over 10 countries and 20 organizations gathered in Paris on April 26th to the second Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) meetup hosted by the think- and do-tank FING. Topics covered ranged from use cases and business models for human centric personal data management to blockchain... Read More

“I think a personal data store where we only have control over the data we consciously share with others is not good enough.” Interview Transcript Molly Schwartz: Hi everybody, this is Molly Schwartz again, one of the researchers at MyData, talking right now to Peter Vander Auwera, one of the co-founders... Read More

Interview Transript Molly Schwartz: Hi, Molly Schwartz here. I’m one of the researchers on MyData at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and I’m here speaking with Irene, who’s the Principal Investigator of the Hub-of-all-Things project out of the University of Warwick. And we are very excited about the work... Read More

Hi, this is Molly here, the MyData 2016 Communications Lead. Last month I got the chance to catch up with one of our MyData 2016 speakers, Justin Richer, via Skype. He is a systems architect, software engineer, and standards editor who helped build many of the core technology standards at... Read More

Molly Schwartz interviews our speaker Doc Searls. Doc Searls is a journalist, columnist, and a widely read blogger. He is the author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (Basic Books, 2000,... Read More

Everyone knows that what makes a conference great is the people who are involved. In the months leading up to MyData 2016, we will be using this blog to post interviews with event organizers, speakers, and participants. Consider it a sneak preview of all the awesomeness that will be convening... Read More

You have been submitting ideas to the MyData 2016 event programme. And we have heard them! So far we have received 39 speaker suggestions and roughly the same number of other ideas ranging from content themes to intermission exercises. On Tuesday, January 26th we held a Talkoot* here in snowy... Read More

Last week the final version of the EU data protection legislation was finally agreed: “EU rules on data protection put the citizen back in the driving seat”. As we enter into the two-year implementation phase of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it is important to realize that the regulations... Read More