H.A.T as your digital data vault

The H.A.T is unique as it gives an opportunity for individuals to create a repository of our own data, generated by us and owned by us i.e. primary data and not Continue reading →

H.A.T for discovery of contextual archetypes

The H.A.T enables the project to discover contextual archetypes – activity sets that create meaning to us as individuals. Contextual archetypes, as an example, could be ‘making tea’, ‘after dinner family Continue reading →

H.A.T as a Multi-sided Market Platform & Trust Broker

The H.A.T creates the Multi-sided Market Platform in two stages. With the H.A.T algorithms and business models created from the contextual data, we generate requirements for new products or services that Continue reading →

H.A.T as empowering the individual

We conceived the H.A.T project and assembled the best team we can think of to deliver on it because: (1) we believe there is another way for technology to work Continue reading →

HAT goes to Brussels

I’m in Brussels for a discussion on ‘Smarter data for Europe’ a meeting hosted by the British Ambassador to the EU. Personally, I think its just another round of oohs Continue reading →

Personal data warehouse for the HAT

Many of you will understand the motivation for the HAT is to create personal empowerment through ownership and control of our own data. We take this as akin to transforming Continue reading →

Be part of the HAT revolution!

Hello Hatters, Mad Hatters and Hat fans! We are hitting the ground running on 1 June 2013 with the start of the HAT project by having a HAT event on Continue reading →

HAT in a newsletter

I recently wrote a piece for an executive recruitment company’s news letter and thought I would also put it here as it seems to engage people in this idea: Written By Dr Continue reading →

Media Coverage on the HAT: Birmingham post

The HAT was featured in the Birmingham post on the 5 April 2013 ‘All seeing eye’ to record household data developed in Midlands It could be an ever-present eye monitoring Continue reading →

Context and use

As we begin our project on the Hub of All Things I am becoming increasingly aware of other people talking about context. The questions that come up are “What does ‘what you Continue reading →

We won it!

So I got the news only on Monday afternoon – for some reason the EPSRC JES system showed ‘with council – approved’ last Friday but I never received an email. Continue reading →

How are we different from the rest

I was asked this question about how different are we from other ‘hubs’ or ‘platforms’ out there. First – this is not about being another hub in your home. We Continue reading →