PIMCity

Building the next generation personal data platforms

Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS) aim to give users back control over their data, while creating transparency in the market. However, so far, they have failed to reach business maturity and sizeable user bases. PIMCity offers tools to change this scenario.

• We implement a PIMS development kit (PDK) to commoditize the complexity of creating PIMS. This lowers the barriers for companies and SME to enter the web data market.
• We design and deploy novel mechanisms to increase users’ awareness
• We demonstrate the effectiveness of the above tools by engineering EasyPIMS, our fully-fledged PIMS.

We strongly believe that an open market for data will only flourish if we stop the arms race between users and services. For this, we involve advertisers and end-users in the whole process. PIMCity has all these players in our consortium, along with leading IT companies and data providers, renowned research centres and universities, and SMEs already in the market of PIMS.

Website: pimcity-h2020.eu/

Related Publications:

• User profiling by network observers