This page is used to log our key working materials and to set out the lexicon around our subject matter; it is necessary to ensure we have consistency across the complex issues and related terms being discussed. It also provides links to our key working documents.
Volunteered Personal Information is a related subject to VRM (vendor relationship management), see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page for details of that work. Volunteered Personal Information is the personal information that is typically known only to the individual, and which most likely can only be accessed by agreeing to the individuals terms or release; an example is 'my future purchase intention'.
User Driven Information is an adjunct to volunteered personal information and adds the scenario where the information being volunteered by the individual is not specifically 'personal' (in legal terms); an example might be an anonymised product review.
Individual is the initiator of a flow of user driven/ volunteered personal information, and typically the data subject.
Organisation is typically the relying party, the recipient of the user-driven or volunteered personal information. Other organisations might be third party identity providers (e.g. a credit bureau or government function), or a user-driven/ 4th party service provider (see here for definition).
The diagram below shows the 'go to market space', where the buying processes of an individual run alongside the selling processes of organisations. It is used to map out the various stages in a customer-supplier relationship - the most common context for user driven and volunteered personal information. The key point to be noted from this diagram is the many and varied data flows already in place typically running automated CRM (seller-centric) scenarios alongside ad hoc/ non-automated individual-driven scenarios.
The primary task of this work group is to articulate a technical specification for the tools that will enable this user-driven and volunteered information to flow - and in doing so generate win-win's, eliminating guesswork and waste. In the predecessor Special Interest Group (Liberty), an overview of the technical requirement was produced, along with initial views on which current technologies were relevant. This spreadsheet can be found udvpitech:here, it will be iterated further in this workgroup.
