Why current data brokering is simply not sustainable

Why current data brokering is simply not sustainable

Business
By Jose Luis Agundez Dominguez (@ciberjos), Big Data Innovation, Telefonica  3 November 2014: Changes must be made to the way businesses and individuals understand and more critically, manage personal data. This was the idea behind a talk I delivered (as part of the Policy and Advocacy session) at Mozilla’s recent, annual MozFest. The festival is dedicated to forging the future of the open web, discussing solutions to the web’s most pressing issues. For Telefónica, the transparency of personal data definitely falls into this category and we’ve powered research in...
Base societal decisions on data, not politics!

Base societal decisions on data, not politics!

Business
An interview with Big Data industry pro Jose Luis Agúndez (@ciberjos) on the trends and advances in this space.  What big data applications can we expect to see in the short term? “In the short term we are working to produce “outwards facing” insight (for other companies) monetizing data by allowing other companies making better decisions based on market knowledge that can be provided from sources external to them.  This is a new perspective in the application of data insights, as opposed to the more traditional application to...
Why you need to know about e-Estonia and the X-Road

Why you need to know about e-Estonia and the X-Road

Future Trends
By Jose Luis Agundez Domínguez (@ciberjos), Big Data Innovation, Telefónica  Last week in Tallinn I had an epiphany in my understanding of how the future of the Data Trading Economy may affect individuals depending on what part of the world they were born in. In fact, it may be irrelevant if you happen to be a citizen of Estonia, a small country that is in pole position in the race to realize a Data Transparency vision that would then enable Data Trading, as I introduced in my previous...
Here’s what we need to create a Data Trading economy

Here’s what we need to create a Data Trading economy

Business
By Jose Luis Agundez Dominguez (@ciberjos), Big Data Innovation, Telefonica  16 April, 2014: The commercial shipping industry only really flourished when precise navigation equipment brought certainty and a degree of automation into an adventurous and craftsmanship-based trading practice, where merchants had no assurance that the goods loaded into a ship would ever make it to the destination port. Nowadays, navigating the oceans of Big Data around us, some skilled explorers are succeeding in ad-hoc trading, but for the rest of the merchants wanting to ship data to far away...
Big Data transparency and the Data Sharing Economy

Big Data transparency and the Data Sharing Economy

Business
By Jose Luis Agúndez (@CiberJos), Big Data Innovation Program 20 March 2014: In the current context of economic downturn, the promise of Big Data to fuel growth by creating new value out of existing data is still to be realized. This is despite efforts to foster it with new regulatory frameworks by policy makers, such as EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, as described in her talk around “The Economic and social benefits of big data”. One course of action for Big Data to gain traction is proposed by Alex “Sandy” Pentland,...