the Smart Data Group has published a proposal for what the 'Future Entity' for Open Banking + all Smart Data Schemes should look like. Special Purpose Vehicles for each Scheme.. www.linkedin.com/posts/smart-...

'Cooperative data utilities' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8Z...

good article on the battle to define AI that's taking place within the IETF AI Preferences Working Group: www.businessinsider.com/google-micro...

some good stuff from HF on the limitations of individual consent. however, rather than 'fiduciaries' as new intermediaries for data, I think the target should be assigning stronger accountability to existing actors. I don't have an intermediary between me and my doctor huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...

at parliament for the launch of the ESRC Digital Good Network’s Public Voices in AI findings: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...

the UK Government Digital Service's focus areas for 2025/26:

a perfectly normal sentence on.ft.com/3DfGDzB

I like PRISM's work to evaluate the risk of different AI models being misused - it gives developers actionable metrics to improve on www.prism-eval.ai/bet-leaderbo...

making some progress with @dgen.net on existing research data infrastructures the National Data Library should use as inspiration (and avoid duplicating..) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

pics from the Data Empowerment Fund event earlier (including some v serious looking people in the green ‘room’) dataempowerment.fund

thanks a lot, there's bits I'll pick out there! I'm focusing on data for research rather than operational data sharing, as a) the design space then becomes too wide and b) there's a big risk of missing the significant research data infra we already have

I'm writing something on the National Data Library and what it could/should be...

Are there other roles or examples of data infrastructure it should be inspired by?

'European Alternatives is a project by Constantin Graf, which collects and analyzes European alternatives to digital services and products, such as cloud services and SaaS products' european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

I'm trying to keep track of the different tools springing up to enable web users to control use of their data/content. Dark Visitors is a new one to me: darkvisitors.com

I find the disconnect between discourses like 'data can't/shouldn't be financially valued' vs the very real, ongoing practice of pricing and charging for data access quite confusing.

eg circular discussions on NHS data vs CPRD charging up to £360k pa, right now, for access to primary care data

I like the way Open Future's new report describes the different policy issues + discourses around 'digital public infrastructure' openfuture.eu/blog/mapping...