Board and Steering Group

• No updates due to Summer vacations
  

Community

• Alessandro shared an app - COVID19 Map Explorer (from UNOCHA)
  A COVID19 map explorer that brings together dozens of datasets from over 20 sources.
  
• Alessandro shared useful information on MyData Design Toolkit. Google doc available here
  
  • Personas canvas for COVID-19. A tool that helps teams to empathise with the end users and to identify solutions.
    
  • MyData Design Canvas. A tool that guides teams to define a service proposition based on MyData.
    
• John Wunderlich introduced several desgin related articles in #design channel.
  
  • People-Centered (Not Tech-Driven) Design
    
  • Affordances and Design
  • Affordance, Conventions and Design (Part 2)
    
• Paul Jurcys shared four posts about different data sources by Markus Lampinen.
  
  • Major data intermediary QuantCast
    
  • Spotify
    
  • Netflix
    
  • MISC
• Jogi continued to share insightful point of views on data ownership.
• Iain referenced to one of his previous work (My Data Visualisation) in the debate of personal data ownership.
  
• Ansku summarized the frequnently asked questions (FAQs) concerning the MyData Online 2020 Conference Call for Proposals. FAQs available here.
  
• Juan Caballero shared an interesting article (How Taiwan's Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic) on how Taiwan's COVID19 solutions might even work in the US.
  
• Kaliya recommended a resourceful website with a collections of Models for Platform Governanace.
  
• Jogi pointed out the similarities between smart mobility services and MyData Operator. Article available here
  
• Jogi & Ito are working on sharing certificate model for EU Commission's governance, MyData Operator and Japanese Data Bank (ITrenmei).

Startups & Partnerships

• Kira from Undatify is looking for partners to tackle challenges of individuals trying to exercise GDPR rights.
  
• Quentin introduced Datavillage, a Belgian startup working on unlocking the value of personal data for both individuals and organizations. A beta PDS is available to developers, data scientists, etc.
  
  • Developer portal
    
  • Signup page
    
  • General info
    
  • Platform presentation (YouTube)