13 Saturday Dec 2025
Posted in accountability, Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, governance, leadership, public, technology
My sister was part of a group that offered support to the striking miners of Wales, Scotland and England.
They organised a public fundraiser and invited the politician Tony Benn to speak.
Continue reading06 Thursday Nov 2025
Sir Afilonius Rex and Agencies
The Hague, 6th November 2025
Detailed List of Entities Calling for the Unconditional Release of Israeli Hostages Held by Hamas
The following is a comprehensive, categorised list of world leaders, governments, political parties, universities, social leaders, and NGOs that have publicly called for the immediate and unconditional release of the Israeli hostages (and, where applicable, their remains) taken during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.
This demand has been a consistent theme in international responses to the Gaza war hostage crisis, often framed as a war crime under international law and tied to calls for ceasefires and humanitarian access. The list is compiled from official statements, joint declarations, and reports up to November 6, 2025, including the recent U.S.-brokered ceasefire phases during which many hostages were released. I’ve focused on explicit calls for “unconditional” release, excluding conditional proposals (e.g., tied solely to prisoner swaps without emphasising immediacy).
Entries include brief context, dates where available, and sources for verification.
Note: Although universities were less prominent in direct calls (more often involved in protests or faculty statements), I’ve included relevant examples.
1. World Leaders. These individuals issued personal or official statements urging Hamas to release hostages without preconditions, often in UN addresses, summits, or media.
Continue reading01 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in accountability, agile, All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Inform, educate and entertain., pig data, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians
Big Data Predictions for 2017You want Big Data predictions for 2017?
You’ve got ’em!
These are my Big Data, Data Warehousing and Analytics extrapolations for 2017. They are based on extensive, exhaustive and enigmatic work carried out by top-notch researcher gurus at Cambriano Energy, between December 2015 and December 2016.
So, stick with us as we survey the landscape that will be Big Data in 2017. Continue reading
10 Saturday Sep 2016
Martyn Richard Jones
Dublin, 10th September 2016
Theresa May, as Prime Minister of Her Majesty’s Government, has overall responsibility for organising the United Kingdom’s retreat from the European Union.
But, Theresa May has a problem, she doesn’t appear to have a detailed plan for Brexit, at all.
08 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in accountability, agile, Ask Martyn, Consider this, dark data, data science
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Martyn Richard Jones
In the eighties, there was a company called Sperry Univac, which was part of the once-famous Sperry Corporation.
At that time, a significant manufacturing concern in the industrialised Midlands of England was looking to automate and computerise operations. This meant that they would be in the market for some serious heavy iron – to use the old euphemism for mainframe computers. Continue reading
30 Sunday Nov 2014
Posted in accountability, Consider this
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Companies the world over have been busily moving away from the more traditional function-based business structures, with their attendant silos of competence, overlapping roles and artificially limited responsibilities, to highly focused business-driven process models.
Well-bounded business process reengineering has often been a critical success factor in contemporary business strategies. So, new ways of looking at processes are introduced in order to bring about far greater levels of simplicity, marked improvements in service and product quality, new-found process robustness, greater customer intensity and intimacy. Continue reading
03 Monday Nov 2014
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accountability, aspiring tendencies in IM, ethics, good job, information management, Information Technology, IT business, Organisational Autism, organisational awareness, professionalism
“Anger is the enemy of nonviolence, and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
Mohandas Gandhi
The predominance of strength and innocence, better known as ignorance and arrogance, is undermining Information Management, and in turn is ensuring that many Data Warehousing and Decision Support initiatives are disappointments.
2015 will again give IM professionals the opportunity to regain some dignity and professional integrity.
First, by recognising that there are grave problems within IM; then, by slowing down and halting the toxic trends, carelessness and bad practices; and, subsequently, by reversing, through intelligence, perseverance and integrity, the ingrained and decrepit habits that still trouble the profession.
In the rush to the bottom, we throw excellence in analysis, architecture, engineering and business understanding, under the bus. In IM as well as in many other branches of IT (Information Technology), mediocrity has become the new excellent, regular the new exceptional, and shoddiness the new normal.
Whether it is in Data Warehousing, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Decision Support or Data Integration, we see that professional integrity and ethical behaviour – already enough of a rarity in IT – is being repeatedly trumped by short-term expediency, wilful witlessness, and the cultivation and perpetuation of dogmas, dysfunctional behaviour and dubious doings.
The Information Management sector is rife with elaborate charlatanry, partisan expediency and wilful self-deception. There is not a day that goes by in which we are not subjected to an avalanche of contemptible claims from rogue IM evangelists, DW neophytes and unsophisticated opportunists, who choose to simply make things up as they go along.
It is in the best interests of IM to raise the profession out of the ditch; to reform the profession from the inside; to drive sea-change improvements in knowledge, quality and professional integrity; to ensure a drastic reduction in destructive hype, deception and dogma, and to show the artless charlatans, chancers and snake-oil merchants the door.
Data Warehousing and Decision Support – if done right, and for the right reasons – can deliver tangible benefits to many organisations. Simply stated, if business information has a value in the realm of business and strategy, then it should be treated as an asset; if it is an asset, then it should be managed and nurtured as such, which means aiming to do the right thing right, first time, every time, whilst focusing on maximising confidence, availability and agility.
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Here’s a clue. Because of me.