Town Hall: Updating MyData for 2025 and beyond
2025-04-16 12:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Brussels)
Join our Town Hall to discuss MyData’s relevance and impact in times of dramatic technological and societal change.The Town Hall will begin by presenting the 4th Edition of the MyData White Paper, which poses provocative questions about MyData’s relevance and potential. We will then facilitate a community discussion about what this means for our mission and work in 2025 and beyond.This will be the kick off event for updating the MyData Declaration, starting a collaborative process that will culminate at the MyData 10 anniversary conference in September.Organisational and individual members of MyData Global are encouraged to share your expertise and insights to drive this process. Join us!

Time: 16 April 2025, at 10.00 UTC+0.

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MyData Global Annual General Meeting 2025
2025-05-09 14:00 - 16:00
The Annual General Meeting 2025 will take place online on 09 May 2025 at 12.00 UTC+0. The general meeting is open to all, but only MyData Global members are entitled to vote during the meeting.

Time: 09 May 2025, at 12.00 UTC+0.

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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.

Voting codes: All members in good standing as of 9 April 2025 will receive their voting code via email before the meeting.

The meeting is organised according to the association’s bylaws. 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.

Policy of meeting assistants (bots): A member who wants to use bots for note-taking must inform MyData Global before the meeting. See here for more detailed instructions.

The detailed agenda and all materials can be found here.

Agenda

1. Opening the general meeting2. Calling the meeting to order 2.1. Chair 2.2. Secretary, Tellers and Examiners of the minutes and other roles 2.3. Notice and attendees present in the meeting3. Approving the agenda for the meeting4. Bylaws amendments 4.1. Amendment to bylaws section 4.3 on Board Terms 4.2. Amendment to Section 10.5 Voting in General Meetings 4.3. Finnish translation of the bylaws5. Mandatory tasks of the annual general meeting 5.1. Appointment of auditors 5.2. Presentation and approval of financial reports and relief of responsibility 5.3. Compensation for Board members and auditors 5.4. Presentation of the 2024 annual report and performance evaluation 5.5. Presentation of 2025 work plan and budget 5.6. Membership fees6. Activity updates 2025: the MyData Awards, Declaration Update, and Conference7. Sustaining MyData Global 8. Any other business9. Closing the meeting

Practicalities

Online participation: The password to join the Zoom call and voting codes will be sent to all members in good standing as of 09 April 205 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.

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

Help Shape the Future of Skills - Cyanotypes framework pilot onboarding webinar
2025-05-27 09:30 - 10:30
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, creativity alone is no longer enough. Whether you’re a creative professional, business, training organisation, network, or policymaker, future success depends on our ability to adapt, innovate, and lead through change.

What is Cyanotypes?

Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, CYANOTYPES is a strategic skills initiative designed to empower professionals in the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) with the competences needed to thrive in a digital, sustainable, and ever-changing landscape.

Why participate?

Traditional training models often fall behind shifting skills demands. Inspired by the historical cyanotype photography process, known for its adaptability and creativity, CYANOTYPES responds by offering a cutting-edge, competence-based framework that aligns with European standards. It provides customisable learning pathways to foster adaptability, innovation, and resilience.

The CYANOTYPES project has developed a flexible and scalable competence Framework structured around five key thematic clusters, supported by a Train-the-Trainer Toolkit that helps educators, professionals, and organisations in delivering adaptable and high-impact learning experiences.

If this resonates with you, we invite you to join our onboarding webinar on 27 May to explore the opportunity to become a CYANOTYPES Pilot Runner—leading an innovative learning journey to embed future-proof competences into the creative sector.

CYANOTYPES can support you to:

✅ Bridge skills gaps in digital, green, and societal transitions

✅ Test pioneering approaches such as Triple-Loop Learning

✅ Empower professionals, trainers and learners with the skills that matter for tomorrow

By piloting CYANOTYPES, you will become part of a European-wide initiative, shaping creative education through cutting-edge methodologies and strategic foresight. Let’s work together to shape a more inclusive, adaptive, and future-ready creative sector.

📅 Interested? Let’s discuss how a pilot could support your goals. Sign up for the onboarding webinar to learn more and take your first step toward piloting.

Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register early to secure your place.

MyData Global is a project partner of Cyanotypes. The onboarding webinar will be hosted by Cyanotypes.

MyData Principles- open collaboration meeting- Aug 11
2025-08-11 14:00 - 15:00
THIS IS A TWICE-MONTHLY OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS UPDATES TO THE MYDATA PRINCIPLES, IN PREPARATION FOR THE MYDATA CONFERENCE

Dear MyData Members.

We live in complex and changing times. In such situations, having guiding principles that are clear enough to point us to where we want to go, while flexible enough to allow us to navigate the unpredictable challenges that may arise, is paramount.

The Principles in the MyData Principles Declaration are our guide. With this, we coordinate our efforts and initiatives to develop a more human-centric future. However, our Declaration has had a few years and while it served us well, we have already started to work on it’s update.

The MyData Conference will be the perfect setting to discuss in person. But we also need time to read, think and discuss it, each by itself, and together. This can be done in real time and also asynchronously.

While each person decides when and where to take that it’s individual and async time, we are inviting you all to a fortnight meeting to do it in real time: the proposal is to get to know each other, understand our individual and collective needs and thoughts, discuss and define our next MyData Principles.

Because this is not another formal document: it will be our collective guide for the next 5 years. This is why we ask you to read it, leave out the implementation details (the how), and let’s meet online to define, together, the fundamentals (the what).

The invitation is each 2nd and 4th Monday, at 12:00 UTC, for 55 minutes, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85014794466.

The rules are simple. A MyData facilitator will help us during the meeting, and we will:

record the sessions for other members to follow.

have a check-in where we very briefly present ourselves.

create and consent our agenda based on everyone’s proposals.

work on the agenda points, together or in parallel, as we define.

take notes of the work done.

close with a synthesis and a check-out to see what went well and what we want to change for the next meeting.

Between sessions, we have the Slack channel to keep thinking and working together, and all notes will be shared on a document.

Any questions and/or proposals, please write me at eduardo@mercovich.net and I will be very happy to help.

I hope to see you then and there.

Warm regards,Eduardo Mercovich, member of the MyData Global Board

PS: as with any videoconference, the 1st time you log in you will have to give your browser permissions to access the camera and microphone.

MyData Principles- open collaboration meeting-Aug25
2025-08-25 14:00 - 15:00
THIS IS A TWICE-MONTHLY OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS UPDATES TO THE MYDATA PRINCIPLES

Dear MyData Members.

We live in complex and changing times. In such situations, having guiding principles that are clear enough to point us to where we want to go, while flexible enough to allow us to navigate the unpredictable challenges that may arise, is paramount.

The Principles in the MyData Principles Declaration are our guide. With this, we coordinate our efforts and initiatives to develop a more human-centric future. However, our Declaration has had a few years and while it served us well, we have already started to work on it’s update.

The MyData Conference will be the perfect setting to discuss in person. But we also need time to read, think and discuss it, each by itself, and together. This can be done in real time and also asynchronously.

While each person decides when and where to take that it’s individual and async time, we are inviting you all to a fortnight meeting to do it in real time: the proposal is to get to know each other, understand our individual and collective needs and thoughts, discuss and define our next MyData Principles.

Because this is not another formal document: it will be our collective guide for the next 5 years. This is why we ask you to read it, leave out the implementation details (the how), and let’s meet online to define, together, the fundamentals (the what).

The invitation is each 2nd and 4rth Monday, at 12:00 UTC, for 55 minutes, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85014794466.

The rules are simple. A MyData facilitator will help us during the meeting, and we will:

record the sessions for other members to follow.

have a check-in where we very briefly present ourselves.

create and consent our agenda based on everyone’s proposals.

work on the agenda points, together or in parallel, as we define.

take notes of the work done.

close with a synthesis and a check-out to see what went well and what we want to change for the next meeting.

Between sessions, we have the Slack channel to keep thinking and working together, and all notes will be shared on a document.

Any questions and/or proposals, please write me at eduardo@mercovich.net and I will be very happy to help.

I hope to see you then and there.

Warm regards,Eduardo Mercovich, member of the MyData Global Board

PS: as with any videoconference, the 1st time you log in

MyData Principles- open collaboration meeting - Sept 8
2025-09-08 14:00 - 15:00
THIS IS A TWICE-MONTHLY OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS UPDATES TO THE MY DATA PRINCIPLES

Dear MyData Members.

We live in complex and changing times. In such situations, having guiding principles that are clear enough to point us to where we want to go, while flexible enough to allow us to navigate the unpredictable challenges that may arise, is paramount.

The Principles in the MyData Principles Declaration are our guide. With this, we coordinate our efforts and initiatives to develop a more human-centric future. However, our Declaration has had a few years and while it served us well, we have already started to work on it’s update.

The MyData Conference will be the perfect setting to discuss in person. But we also need time to read, think and discuss it, each by itself, and together. This can be done in real time and also asynchronously.

While each person decides when and where to take that it’s individual and async time, we are inviting you all to a fortnight meeting to do it in real time: the proposal is to get to know each other, understand our individual and collective needs and thoughts, discuss and define our next MyData Principles.

Because this is not another formal document: it will be our collective guide for the next 5 years. This is why we ask you to read it, leave out the implementation details (the how), and let’s meet online to define, together, the fundamentals (the what).

The invitation is each 2nd and 4rth Monday, at 12:00 UTC, for 55 minutes, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85014794466.

The rules are simple. A MyData facilitator will help us during the meeting, and we will:

record the sessions for other members to follow.

have a check-in where we very briefly present ourselves.

create and consent our agenda based on everyone’s proposals.

work on the agenda points, together or in parallel, as we define.

take notes of the work done.

close with a synthesis and a check-out to see what went well and what we want to change for the next meeting.

Between sessions, we have the Slack channel to keep thinking and working together, and all notes will be shared on a document.

Any questions and/or proposals, please write me at eduardo@mercovich.net and I will be very happy to help.

I hope to see you then and there.

Warm regards,Eduardo Mercovich, member of the MyData Global Board

PS: as with any videoconference, the 1st time you log in you will have to give your browser permissions to access the camera and microphone.

CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK 2025
2025-09-22 09:00 - 2025-09-26 17:00
CSW2025 invites the cultural and creative sector to gather in Prague (23–25 September) to collaborate across boundaries, co-create learning pathways, and build the skills we need for a resilient, future-ready sector.

This year’s theme — Create. Transform. Regenerate. — reflects our shared commitment to shaping adaptive, inclusive, and sustainable creative ecosystems.

Join us in Prague for:

CYANOTYPES Training | 23–24 Sept

A hands-on, future-forward training for educators, strategists, and cultural intermediaries. (Onboarding required)

Creative Skills Conference | 24–25 Sept

A gathering of leaders and learners from across the CCI to explore what’s next.

The online programme (22 & 26 Sept) will open for registration later this summer.

Creative Skills Week 2025 Website

Creative Skills Week 2025 is co-organised with EIT CUlture & Creativity, the Creative Pact for Skills, SACCORD (Erasmus+ Forward-Looking Project Scheme co-funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme), and CYANOTYPES (Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills co-funded by the European Commission Erasmus+ Programme).

CSW2025 is led by ELIA and Creative Prague.

MyData Principles- open collaboration meeting-Sept 22
2025-09-22 14:00 - 15:00
THIS IS A TWICE-MONTHLY OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS UPDATES TO THE MY DATA PRINCIPLES, IN PREPARATION FOR THE MYDATA CONFERENCE

Dear MyData Members.

We live in complex and changing times. In such situations, having guiding principles that are clear enough to point us to where we want to go, while flexible enough to allow us to navigate the unpredictable challenges that may arise, is paramount.

The Principles in the MyData Principles Declaration are our guide. With this, we coordinate our efforts and initiatives to develop a more human-centric future. However, our Declaration has had a few years and while it served us well, we have already started to work on it’s update.

The MyData Conference will be the perfect setting to discuss in person. But we also need time to read, think and discuss it, each by itself, and together. This can be done in real time and also asynchronously.

While each person decides when and where to take that it’s individual and async time, we are inviting you all to a fortnight meeting to do it in real time: the proposal is to get to know each other, understand our individual and collective needs and thoughts, discuss and define our next MyData Principles.

Because this is not another formal document: it will be our collective guide for the next 5 years. This is why we ask you to read it, leave out the implementation details (the how), and let’s meet online to define, together, the fundamentals (the what).

The invitation is each 2nd and 4rth Monday, at 12:00 UTC, for 55 minutes, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85014794466.

The rules are simple. A MyData facilitator will help us during the meeting, and we will:

record the sessions for other members to follow.

have a check-in where we very briefly present ourselves.

create and consent our agenda based on everyone’s proposals.

work on the agenda points, together or in parallel, as we define.

take notes of the work done.

close with a synthesis and a check-out to see what went well and what we want to change for the next meeting.

Between sessions, we have the Slack channel to keep thinking and working together, and all notes will be shared on a document.

Any questions and/or proposals, please write me at eduardo@mercovich.net and I will be very happy to help.

I hope to see you then and there.

Warm regards,Eduardo Mercovich, member of the MyData Global Board

PS: as with any videoconference, the 1st time you log in you will have to give your browser permissions to access the camera and microphone.

MyData 2025 Conference
2025-09-24 08:00 - 2025-09-26 17:00
A decade in, lightyears ahead!

Celebrating 10 years of MyData

Who?

One thousand human-centric data …

Doers, thinkers, and promoters

Where?

Espoo, Finland

Dipoli, Aalto University

The birthplace of MyData

When?

24-26 September 2025

Three days of festivities

Pre-events by partners

By whom?

Under the auspices of MyData Global

Organised by The MyData Company

Check out MyDAta Conference 2025

Final Open Collaboration Workshop: Updating the MyData Declaration
2025-10-13 14:00 - 15:00
Join the final open workshop in the MyData Declaration update process!

This session builds on the earlier Monday workshops in August and September, the half-day collaborative workshop held at the MyData 2025 conference, and the ongoing discussions in Slack. Please see the draft and leave your feedback here.

During this workshop, we’ll consolidate the community’s input and refine the remaining sections together. Afterwards, a small editorial group will polish the text and prepare it for a one-week open comment period before the end of the month.The updated MyData Declaration will be finalised by the end of the month and presented for approval by the General Meeting.Join the workshop:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82614427066?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 826 1442 7066Passcode: [REDACTED]

Seminar Series: Digital Rules, Human Values
2025-11-20 14:00 - 15:00
The Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), MyData Global, and the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI), is launching Digital Rules, Human Values, a 2025–2026 global seminar series on human-centred digital governance.

This series brings together global leaders and practitioners working to develop digital governance that serves human welfare. It explores practical ways to make digital systems and markets more accountable, inclusive, and aligned with human values.

The seminar series begins on November 20, 2025, and continues on the first and third Thursdays of each month through 2026. Every even-numbered session will feature MyData Awardees.

Sessions begin November 20, 2025 | Online | 1 PM UTCSpots are limited. Register now.

Register Here

Invited speakers include world-leading policymakers, companies and practitioners, rights advocates, regulators, NGOs and multilateral organisations.

The overarching theme is building a digital economy that serves human welfare. Speakers will share practical ideas to make the rules of online markets more responsive to the broad interests of humans, not just businesses and governments.

The series builds on GIDE’s Innovation in the Digital Economy Architecture (IDEA) framework.

Key themes include:

Data Governance and individual agency

Emerging models and regional perspectives

Global cooperation and geopolitics

Digital economy and labour governance

Format and timing

60–75 minutes per seminar: presentation, discussion, and live Q&A

Standard session time: 1 PM UTC

Online, first and third Thursday each month, starting on November 20th 2025

Occasional additional sessions may be announced

Who should attendPolicy makers, researchers, business leaders, and civil society professionals engaged in the design of fair and accountable digital systems.

Contact: ceo@thegide.org
