What is the Personal Data Ecosystem?
The Startup Circle
These companies are part of the first class of the PDEC Startup Circle. They are developing the tools and systems for personal control over personal data. Architecting user-managed systems to track and manage a new asset class with value in the billions: personal data. Privacy protections are just the tip of the iceberg; the industry [...]
PDEC Programs
Standards Engagement and Development Community Participation: To succeed, an effective personal data ecosystem needs to use open standards to allow many different services to interoperate. Many of these already exist, or are under development however it is not possible for all companies to engage with all the various standards efforts or to track all the [...]
Industry Collaborative
PDEC was founded in 2010 to educate industry, facilitate cooperation, and inspire the development of an ecosystem where individuals are empowered to collect, manage, and obtain value from their own personal data. An advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data Project, PDEC collects, filters, and analyzes trends and ideas within and outside this [...]
Leadership and Advisors
Kaliya Hamlin, Founder and Executive Director Kaliya Hamlin is an expert in user-centric identity and data sharing and is sought out to brief executives in industry, government, and academia, most recently including SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. She was dubbed Identity Woman [...]