Thought leadership from Consult Hyperion

John Elliott

John is a Managing Consultant with Consult Hyperion and their Head of Public Sector Practice. He has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is a Chartered Engineer with over 18 years IT industry experience. John is recognised as an expert on secure transactions.

Don’t judge mobile payments by the way they work now Friday, 25 March 2016
A few people tweeted and e-mailed to point out how app-centric commerce can be perversely annoying, citing the example of car parking given in this recent British newspaper piece. The competitive marketplace for cashless parking has resulted in a fragmented and rather irritating experience for motorists From Cashless parking was meant to make life easier […]
Reputation, ratings and currency Tuesday, 22 March 2016
I had the great pleasure of sitting next to Cory Doctorow once. We were taking part in some sort of roundtable about privacy and surveillance. I was excited about this because of my Edwardian policy on Twitter: I only follow people that I’ve met. I don’t follow companies, celebrities or computers. I only follow people, […]
Open-loop payment in transit Thursday, 17 March 2016
In my previous blog, I talked about the trends in smart ticketing systems leading to account-centric and open-loop payments which I want to consider in more detail in this blog. ‘Open-loop’ Payments ‘Open-loop’ is the term used for transit payment instruments which can also be used for generic payments outside of the transit system. By […]

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