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iGrant.io is proud to announce that it is among the first companies globally to be awarded MyData Operator status, and the first in Sweden.

The MyData Operator 2020 Award was created by the nonprofit MyData Global. The award acknowledges organisations which provide consent management and other tools, ensuring an equitable share of the benefits from the commercial exchange of individuals’ personal data.

The awarded organisations are working together, even as competitors, on areas of mutual interest to create success for their shared ecosystem.

Joss Langford, the lead editor of the Understanding MyData Operators white paper says: “MyData Global congratulates awardees for their integrity, dedication, and openness in this unprecedented sharing of information that goes far beyond the requirements of any regulation. Ultimately, it is individuals who will benefit from this shared understanding of MyData Operators – with increased transparency, better choices, and more innovative, responsible services.”

iGrant.io co-founder and CEO, Lotta Lundin says: ” With the iGrant.io data operator platform, consented personal data can be shared across organisations in a fully auditable manner in a multi-operator marketplace. This award is a testament to our commitment to a human centric approach to personal data usage, ensuring a win-win for both individuals and organisations to monetise their data assets.”

About MyData Global:

MyData Global is an award-winning international nonprofit. The purpose of MyData Global is to empower individuals by improving their right to self-determination regarding their personal data. MyData Global has nearly 100 organisation members and over 500 individual members across industries, and from over 50 countries, on six continents. The nonprofit facilitates the MyData community of several thousand personal data experts and enthusiasts.

MyData is described in the recently published EU data strategy as a promising initiative for empowering citizens through exercising their digital rights. The MyData Operators Thematic Group seeks to promote the MyData operator approach to human-centric personal data management and to contribute to a common understanding of that approach both within the MyData community and more widely. We bring together the best minds to provide thought leadership to inform technological and business initiatives. We focus on practical aspects of technology and governance to make the operation of infrastructures for personal data sharing, use and management easier and more human-centric, with the long-term goal of establishing full interoperability between operators. We meet regularly and create publications to support operators, other MyData members, and the global personal data community. We seek to inspire the development of human-centric operator technologies, business models, and public policy that embody the MyData principles and to identify opportunities for collaboration.

To download the white paper and follow updates from the MyData Operator community: mydata.org/operators/

About iGrant.io

iGrant.io is a brand owned and marketed by LCubed AB, a Swedish company founded in 2017 and based in Stockholm. It is a cloud platform for managing user preferences and consents for organisations, enabling organisations to exchange and monetise their data assets while complying with data regulations. It provides consented data exchange services between data sources and data using services in a fully auditable manner. It enables distributed apps (dApp) where individuals can aggregate data from multiple data sources. The individual can control, grant permissions and transfer their personal data to any data using services in real-time. iGrant.io does not hold any data from the data source but provides the ability to verify the authenticity to any data using services.

For more information, please visit iGrant.io or contact us at founders@igrant.io

For business and investment queries contact:

Lotta Lundin, CEO
T: +46 730 371 100
E: lotta@igrant.io

For marketing & media queries:

David Goodman, Chief Evangelist
T: +44 7866 360 800
E: david@igrant.io

For MyData Global:

Teemu Ropponen
General manager, MyData Global
T: +358 40 525 5153
E: teemu.ropponen@mydata.org
@troppone