The HAT Project is a £1.2m multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Research Councils UK (RCUK), led by Irene Ng at WMG, University of Warwick with 6 other professors from Cambridge, UWE, Surrey, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Warwick University’s Economics department. The project set out to engineer a market for personal data and therefore design the economic and business models relevant for this market. Over the course of the research, the HAT Project team has done some substantial work to emerge a solution: The HAT personal data ecosystem, a multi-sided market platform for personal data exchanges by way of a personal data store that takes data from connected services and devices, powered by the Internet of Things (IoT)
