Announcing the 2012 Launch of PDEC’s Premier Publication!
The Essential Guide for Personal Data Pioneers
Personal Data Frontier is the essential monthly guide written by and for personal data ecosystem pioneers. Our subscribers are the ground-breaking technologists, product development enterprises, data entrepreneurs, and policymakers who are shaping and leading this rapidly-evolving sector. In each monthly issue, our experienced reporting team and respected guest contributors track, distill, and make sense of the 100+ emerging standards, rapidly growing number of listservs and companies, analyst reports, social media buzz, news, and insider talk.
Stay Apprised of this Emerging Territory
A small group of technology visionaries has toiled in the shadows for years to illuminate and shape an important, emergent market niche: The personal data ecosystem. As disastrous privacy breaches become the norm, there’s growing pressure from many quarters to shift the locus of control over personal data from institutions to individuals. This profound change — like the revolutions initiated by automobiles, television, personal computers, and the web — promises to transform every aspect of our day-to-day lives, including how we buy and vote, how our children navigate in cyberspace, and how business and governments across the globe engage with people and their data.
Personal data has recently been described by the as a “new asset class.” There are huge stakes — intellectual, financial, professional, and personal — for us all. How will you track the explosive growth of this entirely new landscape and gather the intelligence you need to make key decisions about your business and technology in a timely way?
Get Access to the Most Credible Resource Available Without Overload
Published by PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, Personal Data Frontier is the comprehensive source for information in the emerging personal data services space, offering in-depth analysis and news no other publication does, or can. The Frontier provides invaluable leverage to those in the vanguard of developing and delivering solutions and services in the personal data ecosystem. The Internet Society () is funding PDEC’s research on the industry practices and trends the Frontier will regularly examine and interpret. Each monthly issue boosts your sector intelligence with insightful, broad-based, and knowledgeable reporting. We do the legwork so you can focus on making the most profitable use of what we reveal in your sphere.
Subscribe Now and Keep Your Edge
As someone who is already at the forefront of this brave new territory, elect to be among the Personal Data Frontier’s charter subscribers.
The annual subscription rate for the Personal Data Frontier, the key to personal data sector intelligence, is $3000. We’re so intent on getting this into your hands as soon as possible, however, that we’re offering you a special rate of $2750 —..but only if we receive your paid subscription by 10 January 2012.
The premier issue, filled with critical information you and your company can’t afford to miss, will be in your email inbox on 15 January 2012!
Published 12 times/year on the 15th of each month, the Personal Data Frontier may be shared freely within a subscribing company.
When you become a charter subscriber you will get a special bonus too. A thirty minute conversation with Kaliya Hamllin, Executive Director of PDEC and the Publisher of the Personal Data Frontier.
Direct any questions you may have about Personal Data Frontier subscriptions to ( or Skype:evanwolf).
Personal Data Frontier’s Design
Personal Data Frontier informs your thinking, product/business development, and decisions month after month. In each issue, you’ll get fresh and actionable news in a soon-to-be-familiar format, as follows:
| From the Startup Circle | News from members of the PDEC Startup Circle. Typical topics might be the implementation of a new standard, the deployment of a new API, and the opening of a beta testing program. |
| Standards, Protocols, and Open Source | News focusing on expert communities leading development of the technologies for online identity, personal data, and similar topics within PDEC’s scope. For example, progress in the creation of a standard, the formation of a new working group, or significant deployment of specific technologies might be covered. This section will include reports from PDEC’s ongoing research, funded by ISOC, to document technologies being used throughout the personal data ecosystem. |
| Feature Article |
Each issue’s feature article will focus on a topic relevant to stakeholders across the personal data ecosystem. Broad topics we anticipate covering with feature-length articles in coming months include:
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| Events | Notices of events coming up in the next three months or recently past, with relevant links to registration, reviews, slides, and other key information. |
| Sound Off | A short opinion piece on a topic of community interest written by an invited personal data thought leader. |
| Director’s Commentary | Latest insights on the sector from Kaliya Hamlin, Executive Director of PDEC |
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Personal Data Frontier Staff
Kelly Mackin, Editor
Kelly has held many positions in both journalism and technology. She co-invented the computer personality market and drove industry adoption of comprehensive systems management. Kelly has a degree in economics and physics from Hampshire College and a Certificate in Science Writing from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Markus Sabadello, Researcher
Based in Vienna, Markus has been active in the user-centric identity community since 2007 and has worked as a consultant and developer for several companies that are now members of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium. With an educational background in computer science as well as peace and conflict studies, Markus is deeply interested in both technology itself and the potential for positive political/social change it engenders.
Joseph Boyle, Analyst
Joseph led PDEC’s 2011 analysis of of industry, advocacy group, and community responses to the 2010 U.S. Federal Trade Commission White Paper revamping its consumer privacy framework and the U. S. Department of Commerce Green Paper on Privacy and Innovation. He represented PDEC at several conferences in 2011, from Enterprise Data World to Indie Web Camp. A member of the OASIS technical committee drafting the XDI data modeling and sharing protocol, Joseph has been tracking and participating in a range of other standards related to the emerging ecosystem at OASIS, W3C, ITEF, Kantara, and independent efforts.
Kaliya Hamlin, Publisher
Kaliya Hamlin, known as Identity Woman, is the founder and Executive Director of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium. In 2005 she co-founded the world’s leading industry forum focused on user-centric digital identity, the Internet Identity Workshop. Seeing the emerging possibility of individuals collecting, managing, and gaining value from their personal data generated as they interact with all kinds of digital systems, Kaliya founded the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium in 2010 to catalyze industry development and collaboration. She is advising the World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data project and presented at the U.S. National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Privacy Workshop in 2011. Kaliya sits on the OASIS IDTrust member steering committee and is active in the Federated Social Web, now part of W3C.
Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium
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 emerging ecosystem. In June 2011, PDEC launched the Startup Circle to support the new companies innovating into the ecosystem. In 2012, PDEC will convene an Industry Collaborative for larger enterprises seeking to be more engaged in this space. The Personal Data Frontier, a monthly publication, is being launched in January 2012 as the key intelligence resource for the rapidly evolving personal data sector.
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