The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has finalized two long-awaited sets of rules that will govern how providers, payers and technology vendors must design their systems to give patients safe and secure access to their digital health data.

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.

It is of limited value to discuss building blocks and reference models of operators in an abstract way. As a way forward, we would like to focus on a number of design questions that touch upon technical, legal, business and societal perspectives. the discussion should clarify how operators can and should adhere to the MyData principles.

In this paper, we propose the creation of a system of personal data licenses that will help individuals determine conditions for granting access to their personal data.

Some thoughts here about how bottom up, human-centric 'MyData' would vastly improve how global pandemics can be managed for all parties. Clearly we won't get to build much for this time around, albeit my prototype only took 20 minutes; but one has to assume there will be a Covid 20 and beyond.

A recent extensive whitepaper from the Norwegian Consumer Council that demonstrates the need for alternative ecosystems to connect merchants with consumers.

The MyData webinar about Interoperability of Health Data (presented by Paul Knowles and Erwan Médy) moderated bei Ansku Tuomainen is now up at https://mydata.org/webinars and in MyData Global’s Youtube channel.

The recent economic climate has forced the Sovrin Foundation to make some changes to our operations.

Smartphone tracking of the pandemic - a help or a threat to privacy?