HATLAB

HAT Community Foundation appoints Dr Irene Ng as Principal Fellow! We are delighted to welcome Dr Irene Ng (@ireneclng) as Principal Fellow of the HAT Community Foundation (HCF), marking an exciting new chapter for HATLAB Studio.

Custody — where data is held under defined rights and duties. Orchestration — where participants, permissions and exchanges are connected. Agency — where people, organisations or AI systems receive bounded authority to act.

Data intermediation is not one market. It is five. HATLAB Studio has published a new policy brief by Dr Irene Ng ( @ireneclng ) “Five Markets for Data Intermediation in the Age of AI: Rights, Accountability and the Road from Data to Value.”

HATLAB Studio Conversations on Data Intermediaries | Article 3 As part of our contribution to the UK Government’s consultation on *Empowering People Through Data Intermediaries*, (lnkd.in/eFWpbVdg) HATLAB Studio continues its conversation with Irene Ng (@ireneclng).

Back this September — by popular demand. Following the wonderful response to previous cohorts, HATLAB Studio is delighted to once again invite Professor Irene Ng (@ireneclng) to conduct The Economic Stack: Data, Coordination & Ecosystems.

HATLAB Studio Conversations on Data Intermediaries | Article 2

The UK Government is consulting on Empowering People Through Data Intermediaries: lnkd.in/eFWpbVdg

Registration is now open for the next cohort on the 22 June 2026. Registration link: luma.com/jpqls0y6 #AI #DataGovernance #Ecosystems #MarketDesign #DigitalEconomy #PlatformEconomy #CoordinationEconomy #Dataswyft #SEEme #AIGovernance #DigitalTransformation

This is exactly why we designed the SEE-ME Foundational Learning programme: Markets, Ecosystems & Coordination in the AI Economy. Designed especially for technology, business and policy leaders in the AI economy.

That means understanding behavioural data, transaction costs, market design, governance, ecosystem incentives, institutional forms and how AI reshapes exchange, trust, and participation.

And this gap is becoming critical because the next generation of digital systems will not simply be “apps” or “platforms.” They will be ecosystem infrastructures, trust architectures, coordination systems, AI-mediated participation environments.

Far fewer understand: • what data actually is, • how data changes markets, • why coordination matters more than transactions, • or how ecosystems, governance, trust, and institutional structures emerge around data.

This is exactly why we designed the SEE-ME Foundational Learning programme: Markets, Ecosystems & Coordination in the AI Economy. Designed especially for technology, business and policy leaders in the AI economy.

That means understanding behavioural data, transaction costs, market design, governance, ecosystem incentives, institutional forms and how AI reshapes exchange, trust, and participation.

And this gap is becoming critical because the next generation of digital systems will not simply be “apps” or “platforms.” They will be ecosystem infrastructures, trust architectures, coordination systems, AI-mediated participation environments.

Far fewer understand: • what data actually is, • how data changes markets, • why coordination matters more than transactions, • or how ecosystems, governance, trust, and institutional structures emerge around data.

For colleagues working on these questions — policymakers, institutional designers, CTOs, digital public infrastructure teams — please follow as we build the knowledge base. 📅 SEE-ME Cohort 2 opens 22 June. dataswyft.notion.site/see-me…

“Markets and Ecosystems” is the working name for the discipline that addresses this gap: coordination by design, treated as a layer of the policy stack in its own right. This is the work HATLAB Studio is building.