The Data Patrol solution received the BT Flagship Award as well as the Web Based Technology Project Award.

Software Mind S.A. has been cooperating with Garlik Ltd since 2005, developing DataPatrol – the world’s first semantic technology platform that aims to give consumers power over their privacy and identity online. Services offered by Garlik are the first offer of this sort worldwide, aimed at countering the rising wave of electronic identity theft and use for financial fraud. Identity theft is the fastest growing type of crime in countries such as Great Britain or USA.

”The awards received for the Data Patrol solution, which we have been developing from the very beginning together with our client company Garlik – are a confirmation that the strategy we have adopted for the development of internal competence in the field of semantic technology is the right direction.
Modern technologies such as the Semantic Web give much greater opportunities of connection and inference based on distributed data sources, and will thus form a basis for the development of applications, services and information technology systems of the future. Software Mind’s involvement in the development of semantic technologies already means an investment in the foundations of the IT future" said Grzegorz Młynarczyk Senior Vice President of Software Mind.

Software Mind also participates in a consortium of ten international firms and research centres which execute the WeKnowIt project commissioned by the European Union, whose goal is to develop innovative technologies for multidimensional analysis of data from different sources. Software Mind has joined the WeKnowIt project consortium as a company with unique competences and experience in Semantic Web technology.

About Garlik:
Garlik, the online identity expert, was founded by Mike Harris, founding CEO of Egg plc, former Egg CIO Tom Ilube and University of Southampton Professor Nigel Shadbolt.  As the first company to develop a web-scale commercial application of semantic technology, Garlik enables consumers to find and understand what personal information is in the public domain about them and manage how their identities appear online. 

Garlik has appointed a panel of world-class ID protection and technology experts to advise the business including Professor Wendy Hall CBE from the University of Southampton, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, Simon Davies, director of Privacy International and Daniel Cooper, renowned privacy lawyer with Covington & Burling. In January 2008, Garlik was selected as a World Economic Forum, Davos, Technology Pioneer.

Garlik is backed by three of the UK’s leading blue chip investment firms, 3i, Doughty Hanson and Noble Venture Finance.

About British Computer Society:
The British Computer Society (BCS) is the Chartered industry body for IT professionals, the Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology and a Chartered Science Institution.  With our rapidly growing membership, BCS is playing an increasingly pivotal role in leading the development and implementation of world class standards for the IT profession through innovative products, services and support.
Through our specific “Professionalism in IT” programme, BCS is leading and building IT professionalism to levels which are currently only seen in more traditional long standing professions such as law, medicine, and accountancy but which will increasingly become the de facto standards for IT professionals.

About Software Mind:
Software Mind SA is a software house producing and providing software solutions to the global market, offering solutions for the B2B segment in the telco, financial and energy sectors. Software Mind SA plays a major role in the world’s market of semantic technologies. Key clients of Software Mind SA include Garlik, GTECH Corporation, Mach, PTC sp. z o.o., Fortis Bank SA, and BillBird SA. The company cooperates with a range of international partners including GFI, Kabira, and Ultimus.

Press contact: 
Software Mind: Monika Błotnicka, monika.blotnicka@softwaremind.pl, tel.  +48 512 120 230