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The power of CLOUD comes not only from its ability to bring together ME across your various life domains from health to education to finance and beyond but its ability to put you back in the center of your health decisions. In the midst of the national debate over healthcare, we can not lose sight of the fact that health is about you. ME 1.0 can help both you and the healthcare system achieve that goal.

To address the vexing issues of privacy, security and data and their impact on issues from corporate actions to securities to payment systems and beyond, we must reweave the fabric of the Internet. The Internet is not an electronic courier service, and without physical locations, my identity and data are part of a fabric and not a specific location.  Our use of verbs like move, send and log-in are clear indicators of how we are trapped by our current 2-dimensional view of the Internet. CLOUD's evolving contextual markup language provides the framework for this new fabric for finance.

The power of CLOUD comes not only from its ability to bring together ME across your various life domains from education to finance to health and beyond but its ability to put you back in the center of a lifelong learning paradigm. As the immunizations white paper at health.cloudinc.org makes clear, ME 1.0 not only empowers control substantial changes in learning but integrates it into a much broader CLOUD.

Bringing CLOUD's new language to our interactions with government will unleash the power of meGovernment and not just eGovernment. Current approaches to eGovernment simply substitute blue links on a web page for the old blue pages in the phone book. A language for ME can change this, while simultaneously embedding transparency into the fabric of governance and government globally.

The ultimate power of CLOUD will be expressed through our creation of CTML (context markup language). As we begin the journey to ME 1.0 and CTML, this section of the CLOUD website will discuss our perspectives on current standards, how CTML differs from these standards, how CTML would interact with these standards, as well as the multidimensional aspects of CTML. From WHO I Am™ to WHAT I Am™ to WHEN I Am™ to WHERE I Am™, the future of the Internet will be wrapped around people.

Day in the Life: Doctor’s Visit (Before and After CLOUD) - HealthStandards Guest Post

 

For those that have already gotten to know CLOUD and our vision, you know that the new Internet we seek to usher in is a big vision. Every so often, we like to “come out of the…

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The Physical Geography of Companies (Part 2 - The City Motif)

On Tuesday, May 3, I will be at the opening of an exhibit at MOMA in New York City. I am excited about this particular opening because the artist is my wife's cousin, Francis Alÿs.  Francis is Belgian…

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CLOUD Dimensions: Monetary Instruments Though the Lens of WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE (Part 1 - Checks)

As I was reading through my opinion piece from Sibos 2010, so graciously included by the editors in the latest SWIFT Dialogue magazine, a number of additional thoughts began to strike me about our monetary instruments and…

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CLOUD Dimensions: WHO I Am™

During meetings this past week in New York City and Philadelphia regarding CLOUD in both finance and health, two separate questions were raised that help frame a deeper discussion regarding WHO I Am™.  The first question posed was in…

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Day in the Life:  Prescriptions (Before and After CLOUD)

Over in the CLOUD Standards section of our website, we've started to talk a little bit about the idea of Who, What, When and Where from a CLOUD perspective.  Of course, it is always fun to talk about these…

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CLOUD Dimensions:  WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE

Over the past several months, there have been numerous blog posts at the CLOUD website discussing how a CLOUD-enabled Internet will empower new ways of resolving issues in healthcare, finance and education.  Ironically, we discuss how the Internet must…

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