Autonomy

You might have noticed how I keep using the word autonomy in these posts, for example a couple of days ago when writing about a contract-based data platform and yesterday when linking to lessons from BlaBlaCar. It might actually be my favourite word! And certainly guides how I think about the products we provide through our data platform.

By promoting the autonomy of our users - particularly in this case, our data generators - we’re empowering them to make decisions that they feel are best for them and their stakeholders (the data consumers). That leads to a sense of ownership over the data they are making available, and a feeling of responsibility over that data and how it meets the requirements of their stakeholders.

(If I counted correctly, the word autonomy appears 54 times in my data contracts book)