market RIOT is about helping individual customers and users interact with companies, platforms and institutions more on their own terms that is currently possible.

MINT is its first initiative to give individual, the customer or the user, access and control over data generated by interactions with companies and other organisations.

People:

Adriana Lukas

Adriana has been  on the web since before it was cool and works with companies to use blogging as a communications tool, bringing them round to understanding that markets are conversations and that open communication is the name of the game.  Her passion is individual autonomy and she works on several projects that bring people control over their own data.  She is the convenor of the UK Vendor Relationship Management community, VRM Hub and is leading an open source project to build a tool called Mine! that gives users control over their data.  She established Market RIOT to address the imbalance between customers and companies.

Carrie Bishop

Carrie works with public sector organisations to help them get the most out of the web and is committed to helping the government share data back to the people who own it.  She regularly participates in VRM Hub and lends a hand on the Mine! project.