Two good blog posts outlining the BBC’s ambitions were posted to various BBC blogs on this week.
First Matthew Postgate (CTPO of the BBC) looks at the BBC’s future role in a data-led landscape. He mentions the BBC box which then links to work we’ve been researching in BBC R&D around the databox project.
Gizmodo started to unpick this a little, The BBC is Doing Cloud Storage and Wants You to Have Full Control Over Your Data. The interest is a good thing of course…
It was clear to me back when I first spoke to Nottingham University about the databox project, it was something different, a possible way forward following the newly established HDI principles. It was tricky to understand (and you get that sense in the Gizmodo piece) but the box infrastructure kept everything honest. If you told me 4 years later after I first published the ethics of data videos.. I’d be debating with Tim Burners-Lee about the merits of Databox vs Solid at Mozfest 2018… I wouldn’t have believed you.
@ReeJo1 @wearesorryfor @stento @cubicgarden @billt @lexnels max Suzanne and rest of team + partners at @DataboxProject could be the start of something important https://t.co/lEmmPhy5uz
— Adrian Woolard (@adew) June 19, 2019
I look forward to seeing where things go next with Databox/BBC Box, this for me is the BBC embracing the change and doubling down on its public service. But lets not forget the other experiments using databox at their heart as they are also part of the change.
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