Mydata Movement – Looking at Identity from the Perspective of Human Centric Personal Data Management.

My Data Movement

Thursday 3A

Convener: Antti 'Jogi' Poikola

Notes-taker(s): Antti 'Jogi' Poikola

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Notes are here: bit.ly/IIW-mydata

Tags: #mydata #interoperability #human-centric #mydata2018 conference #community-building

Key points from the discussion:

We would need “IIW business” to develop the new business models in the personal data domain with the same innovativeness and spirit what we have on the technical side.

People should be equals in the interactions with organisations, it is not needed to turn the whole thing around so that people would be mandating everything and organisations under them… key is in balance, symmetry and equality. (see Eve’s slide below)

The word consumer is terrible, but also “user centric” and “customer centric” are putting the organisation in the driver's seat (our customer, the user of our service).

Let’s not speak about “data ownership”, but rather about data rights (ref. Sandy Pentland from MIT). Ownership is exclusive but usually different parties have some legitimate rights over  the same data.

Eve Maler’s slide exactly 10 years ago, presenting the idea of people being equals with organisations.

Below links and images that Jogi showed during the session:

Slides: bit.ly/IIW-mydata-slides

White paper: http://okffi.github.io/mydata

“MyData – A Nordic Model for human-centered personal data management and processing.” Text and all original images (Creative Commons licensed) can be found from Github.

Locally the white paper influenced so that “MyData” idea is mentioned in the Finnish government agenda (highest level political paper). The english version of the paper lead the Finnish MyData people to learn to know about numerous initiatives, companies and organisations around the world who share the same vision. → birth of the global community.

Conference (yearly end of August Helsinki): https://mydata2018.org/call-for-proposals

Organised now for third time in Helsinki Finland (videos and content from 2017). Approx. 800 participants, 3 days, programme proposals trough “open call”, also open space on the second day. Call for proposals officially open until Apr 5th, but there is secret two week extension (until Apr 19th) provided for the IIW folks ;)

Topic tracks in the 2018 conference:

Community (local hubs and smaller meetings): http://mydata.org/slack

19 local hubs around the world, most of them are still very new (only couple of months old), organising informal meetups and contain just few people, but some are already more robust with local company involvement and joint projects bubbling up. If you want to set up a local hub: https://mydata.org/hubs

Declaration: https://mydata.org/declaration

Written by the community on 2017 (to be revised later), can be signed online, three key shifts:

1. From formal to actionable right (gdpr is not enough, we need tools to make it easy),

2. From data protection to data empowerment (people can decide what to do with their data), 3. From closed to open ecosystem (interoperability → competition)