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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Path to the Data-driven Economy

What does a Data-driven Economy mission mean? In short: better service, mega-shift in productivity, sustainability through less waste and CO2, fact-based decisions, true single European market, global transparency and the end of grey economy. What does a Data-driven Economy need? In short: 1. Data - eventually most of it structured, standardized,...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Finding inflation - or rather deflation - with real time data.

The Economist article also describes how policy makers and central banks often have to resort to outdated price data and how sudden important changes typically are in a global economy. So when they find the data the important trends may already have emigrated to the next big thing. As we have moved from soon mandatory e-Invoicing+e-Receipts to...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

My Real Time Data

Ever so happy with the response to my presentation at the EU-conference today. A few slides when I manage (should delete blog in the meantime - but Ipadversion not easy..)

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Futile inflation chasing

The 0-interest policy in the euro area has been defended by the need to get inflation up to 2%. I have been wondering how that can be possible when cost of work, energy, material, tax and financing gets lower and destroying nature and climate is still not a cost. Now the Economist's "The end of inflation?" article sheds more light. My t...

/regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Megatrends - what will they mean for my organisation?

My top 5: 1. Climate crisis awareness growing exponentially. Overconsumption and overpopulation (5 billion! more than 70 years ago) on everybody's mind. This will force enterprises to change fast. Owners are also seeing the challenge. Investors move huge sums to sustainable alternatives. Politicians unfortunately still fishing votes in the muddies...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-Banking and e-invoicing growing to 100 pct

Central Bank statistics in Finland reveal continued growth in both e-banking contracts and its use for e-invoicing Consumers signed up: 2015: 6,230 million (entire population is 5,5 - so many are paying for service in more than one bank). 4,0 million use e-invoicing. 2016: 6,427m - out of which 4,1m use e-invoicing. 2017: 6,410m - out of which 4,3...

Electronic invoicing

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-id - central part of banking services - huge growth in Finland

The banking sector is doing in practical terms all the strong e-ID transactions needed in Finland. There are some 3 600 organizations and all of the public sector using this services (dating back to the early 90s..). Central bank statistics reveal continuing strong growth also in 2018: 2014: 56,2 million times 2015: 69,4 2016: 84,7 2017: 100,9 (a s...

/retail Digital Banking Trends

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Demise of cash speeding up in Finland

A population of 5,5m (and some tourists) produced the following ATM volumes: Million times/billion €s: 2014: 145,1 million times/14,4billion € 2015: 137,1m/13,9bn 2016: 124,3m/13,0bn 2017: 12,1bn€ 2018: 11,4bn€ (out of which 0,2 billion with foreign cards) 2019: still over 10bn? 2000€/citizen. For no good reason.. So the rate of decline of €s is 18...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Surveillance capitalism...

I have just started to read Shoshana Zuboff´s much-praised The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Being a founding member of the Real Time Economy program and MyData.org it will be interesting to learn how she sees the future and how much I will have to lean on my belief that GDPR-like legislation becoming global is the answer to the problems in her ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Real Time Economy Data, MyData and BigData

We are now moving deeper into the data driven economy so it is necessary to reflect on the journey so far and what we see on the horizon. 1. First the Why. The Real Time Economy program has been focusing on improving competitiveness especially for the SME-sector from the very beginning (2006) for three reasons: 1. About 65% of turnover and employme...

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