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How does Citizenme empower you? By keeping it simple.
How does Citizenme empower you? By keeping it simple. 640 480 StJohn Deakins

Firstly, a big thank you to those of you who’ve come along to a focus group session recently!  We’re getting ready to release the next stage of the platform and all of…

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The Shift To Digital: Your Missed Opportunity? (JWT Huddle Interview)
The Shift To Digital: Your Missed Opportunity? (JWT Huddle Interview) 508 280 StJohn Deakins

Once a year MindShare open up their office and run Huddle. It’s an eclectic and cosy digital media fair focusing on interaction with the latest interactive gadgets, issues and thinking.…

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Becoming Aware
Becoming Aware 640 353 StJohn Deakins

Last week I was asked why we should be wary about sharing our data (the article appears in today’s CityAM). This jarred with me, not because personal data is scary but because…

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Our Digital Freedom: From Lockdown to Liberty
Our Digital Freedom: From Lockdown to Liberty 1024 565 StJohn Deakins

Cross-post from the HuffingtonPost, 20th April 2016 “Give me liberty or give me death” was the rallying cry of the US revolution. Penned by Thomas Paine at the dawn of the Industrial…

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3 ways to benefit from EU’s new data regulation (GDPR)
3 ways to benefit from EU’s new data regulation (GDPR) 1024 565 Ryan Garner

citizenme recently took part in The Drum’s panel discussion regarding the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). citizenme’s perspective is summarised in the video and post below: Here are 3 big…

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Free cookie for your personal health data. Would you?
Free cookie for your personal health data. Would you? 1024 565 Ryan Garner

Would you exchange your personal information for a free cookie? This is the experiment citizenme ran at the Big Bang Data exhibition in Somerset House. The exhibition explored the issues…

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A small data approach to big insights (IIeX Talk)
A small data approach to big insights (IIeX Talk) 150 150 StJohn Deakins

The video is a talk given by our Director of Insights, Ryan Garner, at the Insight Innovation Exchange (IIeX) in Amsterdam recently. Here is his slide deck: Inside out insights: a…

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Personal data services will re-invent the marketing wheel
Personal data services will re-invent the marketing wheel 1024 566 Ryan Garner

In this post-Snowden world, citizens are increasingly distrustful of businesses handling their personal data. Concerns of government surveillance have filtered down into corporate surveillance. Digital citizens are increasingly questioning the…

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Retro-fitting for the web
Retro-fitting for the web 1024 565 Cedric Ferretti

We are launching the new version of citizenme in April. The development of citizenme has been solely focused on a mobile based user experience. Part of what users will be able…

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A vision for Market Research in an Information Age
A vision for Market Research in an Information Age 1024 565 Ryan Garner

This is the second part an adapted version of my talk at the Greenbook Insights and Innovation Exchange (IIeX) event in Amsterdam. In my previous post I talked about the…

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Why the data economy needs to be centred around people not products
Why the data economy needs to be centred around people not products 1024 565 Ryan Garner

We are currently living through a major tectonic shift; from an old economy to a new economy. It’s on the scale of the transition from an agrarian based economy to…

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Google AI versus the Go grandmaster – who is the real winner?
Google AI versus the Go grandmaster – who is the real winner? 640 353 Neil Lawrence

My latest post on The Guardian: The achievement has been hailed as a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, but computers are much less efficient than us Today we were greeted by…

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