Open Data Round Up: 19/12/13

Hello and welcome to the final open data round up of 2013!

• The Horizon “My Life in Data” Centre for Doctoral Training is currently advertising for Funded studentships for interdisciplinary PhDs in digital identity & personal data.  The deadline for applications is the 10th  January 2014

• The Ordnance Survey have launched a new Geovation challenge focused on encouraging healthy lifestyles in the UK. The Geovation challenges look at ways in which open data can be used to tackle social problems. OS have also made materials from their latest round of open data masterclasses available online.

• Dan Blum of the Respect Network wrote a guest post for Ctrl_Shift looking at why big data needs “big privacy”. The post summarises the findings of a new paper written by Canadian organisation Privacy by Design entitled ‘Big Privacy: Bridging Big Data and the Personal Data Ecosystem Through Privacy by Design’

• Following the Open Government Partnership Summit in November The Guardian summarised the impact Open Data is having on health service delivery in Africa

• Radio 4‘s Data Data Everywhere programme discussed the challenges and opportunities created by the generation of ever-increasing amounts of data

• Horizon have been busy contributing articles to The Conversation: Director Derek McAuley wrote on the issue of giving consumers back control over their personal data whilst Anya Skatova and Richard Mortier wrote on Data Privacy and Perfect Forward Secrecy respectively.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Horizon!