ODI Fridays: How personal data portability could grow the UK economy

This talk highlights the findings in a foundational piece of analysis by Ctrl-Shift of the economic opportunities for the UK economy of personal data mobility, the market challenges and a framework to design for trust. Personal data mobility is a significant economic and policy issue. Enabling personal data to flow between entities in a trusted and lawful manner, that protects and respects the data protection rights of individuals, is widely recognised as critical to the growth of digital economies and the unlocking of significant public and social value. Data portability as laid out in GDPR lays out an important new right, however it opens up new risks and yet unproven impact on value creation or human behaviour change towards their data sharing. Data mobility provides the rails to make this market safe, easy and valuable, the key elements needed for market success. About the speaker Liz Brandt, CEO, Ctrl-Shift Liz has over 20 years experience in consulting and has spent the last 16 building and running innovative businesses that focus primarily on the digital interaction between business and consumers. Throughout here career Liz has worked both in and for large corporates and has developed deep skills and strong networks across private, public and the 3rd sectors. Since the beginning of her career Liz has worked at the disruptive edge, where business and technology meet. She brings deep and strong experience in the impact on business models and operating environments of the shifting landscape of consumers, digital, trust and value. Liz combines vision married with evidence and market knowledge, business strategy and operational implementation and the ability to bring together strong teams to deliver extraordinary results. Ctrl-Shift The opportunities for organisations arising from a new personal information economy are game changing. Ctrl-Shift is the world’s leading market analyst and consulting business helping organisations to capitalise on these opportunities. As trusted personal information sharing becomes central to the creation of digital value, we work with market leading organisations providing evidence, insight and advice to make sense of market trends, identify and size market opportunities, and lead innovation and change programmes for efficiency and growth.