Former Fortune 50 Executive and CEO of California eHealth Collaborative and National Coalition for Health Integration Brings Expertise to CLOUD, Inc.

[Tiburon, CA | Austin, Texas] February 22, 2011

As CLOUD celebrates its Co-Founder and CEO's TED talk to a crowd of almost 600 at TEDxAustin on 2.19.11 in Austin, Texas, the non-profit technology standards consortia today announced the addition of an important member of its executive team.  CLOUD is pleased to welcome Katherine Tavitian as its Interim President and COO.

"Kathy and I first met when she was CEO of NCHI," said Thompson. "I am thrilled that CLOUD will benefit from her experience and energy as its first President and COO."  Although this role is currently an Interim…

Austin Nonprofit Advocates Building a New Internet Language to Link People and Data

[Austin, Texas] February 16, 2011

An Austin nonprofit is making waves with an innovative solution to the vexing questions of Internet privacy, identity and data portability.  And the pioneering effort is gaining traction and visibility.

CLOUD, Inc., the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, is an Austin-based nonprofit dedicated to re-structuring the Internet to enhance privacy while facilitating connections between people and data.

“From WikiLeaks to Net Neutrality to Do Not Track, we hear a lot of concerns about Internet privacy, security, and transparency,” says Gary L. Thompson, Co-founder and CEO of CLOUD, Inc.  “Often they’re treated as separate issues.  But they result from the same problem – the way the Web is structured.”

Says Thompson, “The Web – the ‘presentation layer’ through which we see the Internet – requires us to enter our personal data into a series of disconnected databases on a series of disparate Web pages.  CLOUD’s model frees information from these constraining silos.  Data can exist anywhere on the Internet – but by creating a unique  ‘WHO tag,’ we tie this information…

Austin Nonprofit Seeks to Reweave the Fabric of the Internet

Austin, TX | February 9, 2011

Do you ever feel that we live in a world of missed connections?  Perhaps you’re on Facebook, but your friends are on LinkedIn. Or maybe you’re sick, and find yourself providing your detailed medical history to several, even dozens of, separate entities – in some cases to different people in the same building.

The reality is, the development of the Web – for all its potential and all the good it has done– has created some unforeseen consequences.  One of them is that our need for privacy and our desire for connections are often at odds.

Gary L. Thompson, Co-Founder and CEO of CLOUD, Inc., believes it doesn’t have to be this way. CLOUD, the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, is an Austin-based nonprofit dedicated to re-structuring the Internet to enhance privacy while facilitating connections between people and data.

How can we do both at the same time? 

“We need to radically redefine our relationship with the Internet,” says Thompson. ”Rather…

From Health to Education to Finance, ME 1.0 Changes Everything. CLOUD welcomes representative of Walgreens to its Health Industry Advisory Council

San Francisco, CA | October 6, 2010

CLOUD, Inc. today welcomes the first of its Health Industry Advisory Council members, Anthony J. Barrett, Senior Vice President, Integration, Walgreens as it expands its efforts to reinvent the Internet around people, not just web pages. ”As the future of Health IT is discussed throughout San Francisco during Health Innovation Week, CLOUD could think of no stronger venue to unveil its efforts to usher in an era of ME 1.0,” said Gary Thompson, Co-Founder and President of CLOUD, Inc.

CLOUD – the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data – is an Austin-based technology standards organization that seeks to address the vexing privacy, security and data sharing issues on the Internet by taking an entirely different approach to these challenges.

Mr. Barrett of Walgreens points out, “CLOUD’s vision and future language will allow us to more tightly integrate our most trusted brand with our patients, delivering them higher value and more customized products and services.”
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“Father of XBRL" and Innovation Leader at SWIFT Join Walgreens Executive and former Apple Chief Talent Officer to Reinvent the Internet

Austin, TX | September 29, 2010

CLOUD, Inc., the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, today announced the formal addition to its strategic advisory board of two standards innovation leaders and industry veterans as it seeks to reinvent the Internet with a language built around people: Charlie Hoffman, Director of Innovation, UBMatrix, a leading provider of XBRL software, and Peter Vander Auwera, Innovation Manager, SWIFT. Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Vander Auwera join Anthony J. Barrett, Senior Vice President, Integration, Walgreens, and Dan Walker, former Chief Talent Officer for Apple and GAP on CLOUD's advisory board.

CLOUD is a non-profit technology standards consortia and was founded and incorporated in March 2009 to deal with the vexing issues of privacy, security and data on the Internet by taking a dramatically new approach to these challenges. "From healthcare to education to finance, the solution to these issues will flow from a paradigm of ME 1.0 not just Web 2.0 or Web 3.0," said Gary L. Thompson, Co-Founder and President of…