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H3C Workshop on Rulebook for personal health data

May252022
Online event | Workshop

MyData Global & 1001 Lakes invite you to the second workshop of the Rulebook for data sharing between organisations. This time, we focus on the personal health data. 
We’ll introduce the Fair Data Economy Rulebook model, and apply it to the use case of managing and sharing personal health and well-being data. Participants will learn how the rulebook model can be used in a real MyData setting.

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The OmaData rulebook defines the legal, business, technical and administrative rules that organisations need to comply with when sharing data in a data network. In 2021, the version for the cities was developed with the participation of Helsinki, Espoo, Turku and Oulu. Now, we invite the representatives of the companies to learn more about the framework for new data sharing networks in which data can be shared more freely, transparently and safely, and help us translate it into practice through practical use cases.

The workshop is organised by MyData Global and 1001 Lakes in the framework of the H3C project.

MyData 2022

Jun212022
Jun222022
Conference | Main events

MyData 2022 brings together stakeholders representing Business, Legal, Tech and Social perspectives, because they are all equally important for accelerating the human-centric policies and approaches to personal data.

MyData Global – Spring General Meeting 2022

Jun302022
General Meeting | Online event

Agenda and materials: https://mydata-global.org/general-meeting-spring2022

The agenda of the meeting consists of the points mandated by bylaws Section 10.4 “Agenda for General Meetings”, possible proposed amendments to bylaws and other issues that members want to raise to be discussed.

The detailed agenda and all materials was sent to members 7 days before the meeting.

Time: 30 June 2022, at 13.00 UTC+0.

  • See your local time here
  • Add to your calendar here

Online meeting: The general meetings are held ‘online first’ in Zoom.

No registration: No prior registration is needed. The link and password to join the Zoom call will be sent to all members before the meeting.

Bylaws and voting and elections regulations: The meeting is organised according to the association bylaws.

Agenda and materials: https://mydata-global.org/general-meeting-spring2022

The agenda of the meeting consists of the points mandated by bylaws Section 10.4 “Agenda for General Meetings”, possible proposed amendments to bylaws and other issues that members want to raise to be discussed.

The detailed agenda and all materials was sent to members 7 days before the meeting.

Agenda

  1. Opening the general meeting
  2. Calling the meeting to order
    1. Chair
    2. Secretary, Tellers and Examiners of the minutes and other roles
    3. Notice and attendees present in the meeting
  3. Approving the agenda for the meeting
  4. Bylaws amendments
    1. Amendment to Section 10.5 Voting in General Meetings
  5. Mandatory tasks of the spring general meeting
    1. Presentation of the annual report by the Board
    2. Presentation of the performance report by the Steering Committee
    3. Presentation and approval of financial reports and relief of responsibility
  6. Any other business
    1. Update on the membership fees for organisations
    2. Update to the MyData visual identity
    3. Update to the work on taking the stance on personal data monetisation
    4. MyData 2022 conference
  7. Closing the meeting

Practicalities

Online participation: The password to join the Zoom call and voting codes will be sent to all members before the meeting.

General best practices:

  • Please keep your microphone muted by default to avoid potential sound issues.
  • The meeting is moderated by the Chair.
  • If you’d like to make a comment or proposal, please indicate this by raising your hand in Zoom
  • NB. If you are dialled into the meeting using a phone number, you will not be able to raise your hand or participate in indicative voting. 

Any questions? If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Board Chair Viivi Lähteenoja (viivi[at]mydata.org) or Vice-Chair Antti ‘Jogi’ Poikola (antti.poikola[at]mydata.org). 

More discussions on the agenda take place in our Slack (join here), at the #general-meeting channel. Welcome!

Learning Circle on MIM4 Standard

Oct42022
Nov222022
Main events | Online event | Workshop
2022-08 Learning Circle MIM4

Welcome to the online Learning Circle on the Minimal Interoperability Standard 4 (MIM-4): Towards Interoperable Personal Data Management within Smart Cities

4 October – 22 November 2022, online, free

Provided by Vastuu Group & H3C project

The learning circle is part of the H3C: Human-centric companies and cities project, co-funded by the Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council from the sum allocated for the purpose of buttressing sustainable growth and vitality in the regions.

REGISTER NOW

What is it all about

This learning circle consists of four workshops held biweekly (homework realisation could be given three weeks to conclude) from 4 October to 22 November. It’s all online and with free participation. 

Each consecutive workshop drills deeper on implementing human-centric personal data use cases hands-on. The actual hands-on phase and team homework require the attendees to form teams of 3 to 4 persons, ultimately such teams should come from the same organisation and represent its core stakeholders what comes to realising new personal data-driven services. By the end of the circle the participants undergo a process of defining and implementing a working prototype of their own MyData service. 

The provided sandbox based on our MyDataShare operator platform contains tools, simulated data sources and active credentials for the teams to configure their use cases within the MyData operator. Homework may include the team’s own software development around a rough MyData service prototype.

If some learning circle participants are either using a different MyData Operator already in their services, or represent another operator, the team homework can also be arranged around multi-operator interoperability. This would focus on data source interoperability across operators, and an approach is sought by using a suggested MIM4 Connector element. Access to the Connector source code and documentation is provided for the teams, and the simulated data sources for the generic MyData use cases can be used also in this cross-operator interoperability homework track.

Schedule

The start time of the learning solution is at beginning of October (calendar week #40, tentatively Tuesday October 4, 2022). Solution would run 8-9 weeks onwards from the start date, meeting on Tuesday afternoons.

Session 1: Core design concepts with MyData services

4 October, 13:00-16:00 EET

In the first workshop, participants get introduced to core design concepts around MyData services and necessary elements such as identifiers, permissions and management of services in the context of the MyData Operator used in these workshops. (3h)

Session 2: Ideate and decide the
MyData service for each team

18 October, 13:00-16:00 EET

Participants are arranged an interactive workshop to invent and nail down their hypothetical MyData use case/service for each team to prototype on given MyData operator sandbox & its documentation. (3h)There’s homework for the teams to progress their prototype on their own.

Session 3: Coaching workshop

1 November 10:00-13:00 EET

In the third workshop, the homework progress is checked and coached by the organising team experts. (3-4h)

Session 4: Final workshop

22 November 13:00-16:30 EET

The final, fourth workshop is a longer event to review the results.
Teams will demonstrate their use case realisations and invoke feedback from the trainers. (3-4h)

How to participate:

The participation is free. To guarantee your place, register now!

REGISTER HERE

MyData Online 2022 Conference

Oct272022
Conference | Main events
2022-10 Online Conference Airmeet Landing

Organised by MyData Events and Services with support by MyData Global and Partners.

Schedule
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MyData Online 2022 conference takes place on October 27! Building on the MyData 2022 conference in June in Helsinki, this event presents global perspectives on personal data. The programme features two 4-hour blocks to suit various time zones. Topics include smart cities, data governance, data spaces, children’s data rights, and more. In addition to inspiring keynotes and interactive sessions focusing on use cases and thought leadership, there are also networking and pitch sessions. Welcome!

MyData Online 2022 brings together stakeholders representing Business, Legal, Tech and Social perspectives, because they are all equally important for accelerating human-centric policies and their practical implementation.

If you are a business leader, CDO, CIO, CTO, CPO, policy maker or a policy shaper, DPO or legal expert, digital transformation expert, business development professional, privacy or data protection advocate, cloud architect, or/and data enthusiast – this is the event for you!

Book your ticket

The conference is free to attend so we can reach a wide audience. However, we would appreciate your support, and thus provide alternatives (0€, 49€, or 99€) to support our global event production.

Schedule

*Program schedule is subject to change.

Programme

The First block: Asica-Pacifec & Europe Focus

Time UTC+0
06:00-06:50 UTC+0
Session
Opening plenary
Welcome + Introduction
Keynote by Kohei Kurihara, Privacy by Design Lab
What does business need to consider designing privacy Into practices?
07:00-07:50 UTC+0
Use cases in smart cities
– Host: Michael Mulquin, Open & Agile Smart Cities
– Digitalization and smart cities in Japan. Takehiko Nagumo, Smart City Institute Japan
– Ecolyo, a tool to manage your energy consumption. Myriam Jégat, Métropole de Lyon

*This session is hosted by the H3C: Human-centric companies and cities project (H3C). H3C is co-funded by the Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council from the sum allocated for the purpose of buttressing sustainable growth and vitality in the regions.
EU Data Act, Data Governance Act & personal data intermediaries
– Host: Viivi Lähteenoja, MyData Global
– The best data innovation board for Europe. Antti ‘Jogi’ Poikola, Sitra
– What opportunities and threats those new acts bring. Tobias Bräutigam, Bird & Bird Attorneys Ltd.
08:00-08:50 UTC+0
Where is business in data spaces?Data, indigenous people &
sustainability
– Host: Esther Huyer, Capgemini Invent
– Economics and business in the data economy. Richard Stevens, IDC
– Swiss Tourism Dataspace, André Golliez, Swiss Data Alliance
– Data spaces and market adoption, Christoph Mertens, IDSA
– Host: Pyrou Chung, East West Management Institute
– Indigenous knowledge and data sovereignty, Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
– Data governance and sustainability : learning from indigenous community. Juliana Harsianti, Global Voices Indonesia
– Children online safety for indigenous peoples, Dixon Siu, Fujitsu Limited
09:00-10:00 UTC+0
Pitch track 1:
use cases and practices
Pitch track 2: infrastructure and enablers
–Digital capsules for life. Pam Moorhouse, My Life Capsule

– Decentralised human-centric health data space infrastructure for diabetes care. Lal Chandran, iGrant.io (Sweden)

–Liberate the neighborhood data with Superhood. Markku Mehtälä, Superhood.

– GDPR: Problem or opportunity.
Vihtori Lehtonen, Missing-Link Oy

–Secure data sharing with confidential cloud. Nicolae Paladi, CanaryBit

– Age verification to preserve privacy. Colin Brown, Capability Brown / Yoti

– Medical mandates & inheriting made easy by SSI Trust Framework & The development of a certificate of inheritance in SSI format. Leon Roseleur & Roeland Euwens, Davinci Consulting

– MyData Operator interoperability with consent receipts. Mikael Rinnetmäki, Sensotrend Oy & Crt Ahlin, Datafund.
– Data protection tool for SMEs. Veera Seaman, TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre

– Recover, understand & leverage your data. Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Hestia.ai

–Flipping the concept of who owns the digital therapy room. Geoff Revill, Safe Space One

– Collaboration is the future of data sharing. Ruben Lasuy, Datavillage.

– Introduction to the DCDR Framework. Jean F. Queralt, The IO Foundation

– Decentralized storage for personal data: goals and requirements. Alexander Kuprin, MidHub & Alexander Partin, Private Practice

–Virtual Finland – a first cross-border data space built on MyData.
Pirkka Frosti, CEO, IOXIO / Virtual Finland













*More pitch teams to be announced later

Networking sessions

10:10-10:50 UTC+0
Smart cities enablers The Netherlands Hub Meetup
Host: Karolina Mackiewicz
H3C project manager, MyData Global
Host: Marlies Rikken
Productmanager Trust & Identity, SURF
*This session is held in Dutch.
11:00-11:50 UTC+0
Data Spaces ad Personal Data
Host: Paul Theyskens
Co-founder, MyData Brussels Hub,
Business Archiect, Datamixer
10:10-11:50 UTC+0
Casual Networking1-1 speed networking (10min)
In the fluid space, start a conversation with someone near you.Pair randomly, participants can extend 10 min

The second block: Americas & Europe Focus

12:00-12:50 UTC+0
First block highlights + Keynote
Privacy 2.0: A Post-Compliance Era of Profitable Privacy Practices
Joe Toscano, Mach 9
13:00-13:50 UTC+0
Human friendly privacy policiesGlobal regulations on data governance
Designing privacy policies that people actually read and understand.

– Host: Tarmo Toikkanen, Forum Virium Helsinki
– Piia Hanhirova, Forum Virium Helsinki
– Paula Bello, MyData Global
– Arianna Rossi, University of Luxemburg
– Mika Leivo, Helsinki
– Eva Leppänen, Arctic Machine (Infotripla)
– Jarno Ritari, Arctic Machine (Infotripla)

*This session is hosted by Forum Virium Helsinki.
Data Governance form the Global South

– Host: Dr Luca Belli, FGV Law School
– Dr Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa
– Mishi Choudhary, Software Freedom Law Center India, SFLC.in
– Wei Wang, FGV Law School (CyberBRICS Project)
14:00-14:50 UTC+0
Children’s data rights and designCollective governance of data
MyData4Children: A deep-dive into mIKs-it, the first MyData Operator for Children

Hosts:
– Paula Bello, MyData4Children Lead
– Gülsen Guller, MyData Literacy Lead
– Steven Vosloo, UNICEF representative

SPEAKERS:
– Katryna Dow, Meeco CEO & Founder (MyData Operator)
– Erik Van Acker, Heder
– Gaby Pereira Martins, Heder and “Mother of mIKs-it”
Host: Sille Sepp, MyData Global

– Shared governance of data and PETs
Matthew Prewitt & Jack Henderson, RadicalxChange Foundation

– Building shared momentum on personal data empowerment.
Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Hestia.ai




15:00-16:00 UTC+0
Keynote + conference highlights
Host: Sille Sepp, MyData Global
The data delusion: protecting individual data isn’t enough when the harm is collective.
Martin Tisné, Luminate
Jeni Tennison, Connected by Data

Presenters

Support our community works

MyData Global ry is collecting donations to advance our community works and core operations. Our mission is to empower individuals by improving their right to self-determination regarding their personal data.

Your donations will be used to support:
– MyData Global’s membership activities (coordination and development activities of working groups and communication)

– Organization of online and face-to-face events

– MyData Global ry’s normal fixed costs (such as office rent, software costs)

Disclaimer: MyData Global ry is a registered non-profit association. Business ID: 2971224-7. Small-scale money collection number is RA/2022/1443.

Donate

Open call for pitches at MyData Online 2022

We welcome the global MyData community to present a 5-min pitch that focuses on practical examples of ethical use of personal data, such as business practices, use cases, initiatives, or new projects.

Who can apply: any team, organisation, or individual
When is the pitch session: Oct 27, 2022 / 09:00-10:00 UTC+0

Open call ended on Oct 12. Sixteen teams will pitch at the conference.


Call for partnership

We are looking for a few more partners to contribute to making the event successful.

Partnerships contact:
Teemu Ropponen
email: teemu at mydata.org!


We’d like to thank The IO Foundation, Forum Virium Helsinki / smashHit project, the H3C project / Helsinki Uusimaa Regional Council, and Hestia.ai for their dedicated support to make the MyData 2022 Online happen!

Conference contact person:
Events Manager
Julia H. Liao
email: julia at mydata.org

Autumn General Meeting 2022

Nov12022
Nov42022
General Meeting
2022-08-Elections-2022-Board-Steering-1024×1024

The Autumn General Meeting 2022 will take place online on 1 November 2022 at 13.00 UTC+0.

As part of the meeting, the elections for the MyData Global board and steering committee take place. All MyData Global individual members are eligible to run for the elections. Find more information at https://mydata.org/elections


Time: 1 November 2022, at 13.00 UTC+0.

  • See your local time here
  • Add to your calendar here

Online meeting: The general meetings are held ‘online first’ in Zoom.

No registration: No prior registration is needed. The link and password to join the Zoom call will be sent to all members before the meeting.

The meeting is organised according to the association bylaws and the voting and elections regulations. The voting codes will be sent no later than 24 hours before the general meeting to those members who are in good standing 30 days before the general meeting.

The meeting agenda consists of the points mandated by bylaws Section 10.4 “Agenda for General Meetings”, possible proposed amendments to bylaws and other issues that members want to raise to be discussed. The detailed agenda and all materials will be sent to members no later than 7 days before the meeting.


Agenda

Detailed meeting agenda with all materials can be found at https://mydata-global.org/general-meeting-autumn2022

  1. Opening the general meeting
  2. Calling the meeting to order
    1. Chair
    2. Secretary, Tellers and Examiners of the minutes and other roles
    3. Notice and attendees present in the meeting
  3. Approving the agenda for the meeting
  4. Bylaws amendments
    1. Amendment to bylaw sections 2.1, 3.1, 4.6, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 11.2
    2. Finnish translation of the bylaws
  5. Internal regulations
    1. Amendments to the Association’s Voting and Elections Regulations
  6. Strategy for the new period
  7. Mandatory tasks of the autumn general meeting
    1. Appointment of auditors
    2. Compensation for Board members and auditors
    3. Business plan
    4. Membership fees
    5. Budget
    6. Board and steering committee elections
      1. Size of the board
      2. Opening the board and Steering committee elections
      3. Resuming the meeting election results (on 4 Nov)
  8. Any other business
    1. Update on the MyData Events and Services Ltd
  9. Closing the meeting

Practicalities

Online participation: The password to join the Zoom call and voting codes will be sent to all members before the meeting.

General best practices:

  • Please keep your microphone muted by default to avoid potential sound issues.
  • The meeting is moderated by the Chair.
  • If you’d like to make a comment or proposal, please indicate this by raising your hand in Zoom
  • NB. If you are dialled into the meeting using a phone number, you will not be able to raise your hand or participate in indicative voting. 

Any questions? If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Board Chair Viivi Lähteenoja (viivi[at]mydata.org) or Vice-Chair Antti ‘Jogi’ Poikola (antti.poikola[at]mydata.org). 

More discussions on the agenda take place in our Slack (join here), at the #general-meeting channel. Welcome!

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