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From the Blog on data portability
Exploration
Exploration projects are hard. They are about trying to find a way through a challenge. Failing more than succeeding.
The Keeper of the Keys
Carrying a perscription around was a basic form of data portability. I was the courier and the keeper of the keys.
Deduplication and Scavenger Hunts
Our kids like scavenger hunts. The cards are ‘centrally’ controlled while where the child finds the ‘treasure’ is mostly up to them.
Helping the Emperor Put Some Clothes On
Is a list of unique individuals affected by a crisis more of a ’emperor has no clothes’ moment than the holy grail we think it is?
The Same Coin
Societies work well when we have both federated and portable data systems. Not one or the other, but both. It is two sides of the same coin.
I wish you would have asked me first
Our contact details are shared without our knowledge by organisations and companies often with profit (for them) intention. Perhaps we should ask first?
Data Portability won’t work on its own
I remain an advocate for data portability, but it is not the magic bullet. It risks the ‘Six of one, half a dozen of another’ trap.
Decentralisation needs Centralisation
When we decentralise we can’t ‘prove’ uniqueness across a population group. There appears to need a some sort of centralisation ability for this.