Midata: access and control your personal data

The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills demonstrate that they cannot spell ‘my’, don’t know to start proper nouns with a capital letter, or that parenthetic dashes come in pairs:

The midata project – part of the Consumer Empowerment Strategy will allow people to view, access and use their personal and transaction data in a way that is portable and safe.

The gist of this is that it would be nice if you could download your phone bill or gas bill in a format that is easy to process so that third parties can compete to come up with useful ways to optimise your life thereby. For example, you could have a web page displaying your carbon footprint, based on your energy bills.

This is one of the few cases where a brand name starting with the word ‘My’ actually makes sense: My Data.

Young Rewired State is a week-long event for 15–18-year-olds to build something new using government data. There’s one being held in Oxford: Oxfam HQ in Oxford will be hosting a Young Rewired State event focussing on development data - exploring what can be created to explore key issues of climate change, health, education and development. We’re recruiting young people now - so if you can get to Oxford during the first week of August and want to be working in the heart of a development NGO - showing both government and charities what young people can do with data and design - we want to hear from you. (yrs2010 [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Oxford) The main site has information on other locations.

Young Rewired State is a week-long event for 15–18-year-olds to build something new using government data. There’s one being held in Oxford:

Oxfam HQ in Oxford will be hosting a Young Rewired State event focussing on development data - exploring what can be created to explore key issues of climate change, health, education and development. We’re recruiting young people now - so if you can get to Oxford during the first week of August and want to be working in the heart of a development NGO - showing both government and charities what young people can do with data and design - we want to hear from you. (yrs2010 [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Oxford)

The main site has information on other locations.