EU Health Data Space must be individual-centric to benefit all stakeholders
To benefit all stakeholders and ensure green digital innovation, implementation of the European Health Data Space must focus on individual health records. As a citizen and a patient, would you agree to...
View ArticleWallets, Data Safes, and Key Safes: Formidable Competitors or Good Partners?
With the announcement of the European Digital Identity (EUDI), digital wallets appear to be the moral winner in the debate over which solution is best for taking more control over one’s data. But is...
View ArticleThe road ahead for MyData Global
MyData Global celebrated its fifth anniversary in November 2023, while the continuous efforts of MyData community members to empower individuals started already a decade ago. There have been...
View Article2023 in review: setting the stage, aiming for impact
2023 was a dynamic year filled with regulatory milestones, technical innovation, and novel challenges. MyData Global spent the year investing in its capacity to serve the community and deliver impact....
View ArticleHow to build a human-centric data space: introducing the Blueprint for the...
The DS4Skills project, funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme and led by DIGITALEUROPE, has launched its Blueprint for a European Data Space for Skills & Employment...
View ArticleOpen Position: Finance and admin officer (50% FTE)
Job title: Finance and admin officerEmployment type: 50% employment contractContract duration: Permanent with a 6-month trial periodSalary range: 1,100 € – 1,250 € (2,200 € – 2,500 € FTE)Location:...
View ArticleMyData4Children ZINE 2024: A challenge for MyData Community – Design a Robot...
Introducing MyData4Children Zine 2024 Numerous studies and real-life events have shown us that emergent technologies affect children, for good and bad. However, the dominant narrative is framed with an...
View ArticleOpen position: Legal and policy specialist/ ecosystems specialist
Job title: Legal and policy specialist / ecosystems specialistEmployment type: Fixed contractContract duration: March 2024 through 31 March 2026, with opportunity for renewal.Location: Remote,...
View ArticleA Recorded Delivery Network… for Data
In the MyData Matters blog series, MyData members introduce innovative solutions and practical use cases that leverage personal data in line with MyData values. Since the 1980s, personal data has been...
View ArticleData Spaces Alliance Finland: United to move faster and stronger
The Alliance brings together Finnish pioneers in data technology and offers its members a unified view to develop solutions that cross their organizational boundaries. The Alliance is a collaborative...
View ArticleCalling on the European Commission to Enforce Data Portability
Today, MyData Global has partnered with the Coalition for Online Data Empowerment (CODE) and the Ethical Commerce Alliance (ECA) to send an open letter to the European Commission’s Executive...
View ArticleInternational consortium set to advance AI & Multimodal data integration in...
The NextGen project kicked off at the beginning of 2024. MyData Global teamed up with clinical research centres, universities, professional associations, SMEs and non-profits in this EU Horizon Europe...
View ArticleAs a patient, the main reason to be in charge of my health data is to ensure...
Patients – and citizens – should be in charge of their data to ensure correctness, completeness and accuracy, optimizing continuity of care from their providers and effective generation of datasets for...
View ArticleMyData goes to Brussels! Finishing our member consultation with OECD on the...
A group of MyData staff, members and friends co-hosted a workshop with OECD on the role of Trusted Data Intermediaries at this year’s CPDP conference in Brussels. We were happy to be able to take our...
View ArticleLessons from the City of Helsinki: Three Paradigm Shifts in Smart Cities
Author: Mikko Rusama, Managing Partner at Nexus Transform. Finland is now the happiest country in the world for seven years in a row, according to the United Nations’ World Happiness Report 2024....
View ArticleThe MyData Awards 2024 – 2025 are now open for nominations!
Nominate any individuals or organisations now at https://go.mydata.org/nominate ! Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged.You may make as many nominations as you like. Hello to all members,...
View ArticleCall to action for data portability
The EU’s Digital Markets Act requires six big tech “gatekeepers” (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft) to provide continuous and real-time data portability mechanisms to users. We’re...
View Articlefairsfair: Data governance and privacy pop up in mobility
In the MyData Matters blog series, MyData members introduce innovative solutions and practical use cases that leverage personal data in line with MyData values. What is fairsfair? Coming fresh into the...
View ArticleEffective Data Solidarity requires symmetry in human digital agency and a...
We believe that 3 pillars are required in Healthcare to support a FAIR data economy: Data Quality, Data Interoperability and Data Solidarity. Two previous blogs describe the first 2 pillars. This blog...
View ArticleWelcome to the new board of MyData Global!
Author: Christopher Wilson, Executive Director at MyData Global. I am very happy to welcome the new members of the board of MyData Global. Their appointment marks a new era for MyData Global,...
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