MyData 2016 Blog

Customers help to solve banks on-boarding challenges

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...
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New legal framework – towards My Data?

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...
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Shout out from volunteer team!

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...
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MyData: The Basics

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....
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A Future Layer

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...
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Partners Highlighted

“It sound’s familiar, I must have heard about it somewhere.” Familiar typeface, cool colors or something that makes you think “I think I know them”, but then you actually can’t tell what they do. Who are the companies behind the logos? Here are all our sponsors highlighted. See Supporters highlighted...
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Ultrahack MyData Hackathon – 48hr Challenge!

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...
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Sponsors highlighted

“It sound’s familiar, I must have heard about it somewhere.” Familiar typeface, cool colors or something that makes you think “I think I know them”, but then you actually can’t tell what they do. Who are the companies behind the logos? Here are all our sponsors highlighted. See the supporters...
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A human in the data space

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...
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Supporters highlighted

“It sound’s familiar, I must have heard about it somewhere.” Familiar typeface, cool colors or something that makes you think “I think I know them”, but then you actually can’t tell what they do. Who are the companies behind the logos? Here are all our supportes. Re:Know (Revolution of Knowledge...
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MyData use case: Health

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...
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Helsinki tips, part one

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...
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MyData infomercial

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 operators

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...
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Isn’t PIMS a drink?

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...
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MyData 2016 Speaker Interview: Irene Ng

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...
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MyData 2016 speaker interview: Doc Searls

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,...
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Interview with Emilia Hjelm

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...
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Participatory programme planning

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...
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Personal Data Value

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...
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