Interview: Meet the Social Wallet team!

We’re rapidly moving into a digital-first world, which requires a different set of skills. That creates a real risk that certain groups of people will be left behind. Those with weaker socio-economic backgrounds, in vulnerable personal circumstances – old, sick, incapacitated, homeless – or are already marginalized, like certain minorities, refugees, or internally displaced. The […]

Interview: Meet Orchestral team!

Behind Orchestral there is a group of ethical internet activists, members of the Pangea.org organisation, are co-developing an identity management system for marginalised and internet activist communities. The system is built by mature communities with their internet infrastructure and services organised as a commons. They want to self-manage their digital content and circular digital devices. The […]

Interview: Meet MUSAP team!

The MUSAP project aims to develop a new software interface called Unified Signature Application Programming Interface (USAPI) Library. The interface provides a consistent and flexible way for applications to request either low, substantial or high LoA signatures, regardless of the SSCD technology or location of the private key.  Can you briefly present your team? Methics team […]

Interview: Meet IM4DEC team!

IM4DEC aims  our solution we want to enhance security and privacy protection when using a decentralised identity. Additionally, interoperability and user control & consent will be improved with the design patterns outlined in our project.  Learn more about the latest advancements of this team in the interview below. Can you briefly present your team? Our […]

Interview: Meet DID4EU team!

DID4EU project stands for Decentralized Identity Infrastructure for Europe. This project extends walt.id’s existing open source infrastructure.Learn more about the latest advancements of this team in the interview below. Can you briefly present your team? Walt.id offers open source identity and wallet infrastructure already used by thousands of developers as well as governments, public authorities and […]

Interview: Meet CLIENT-DIDS team!

CLIENT-DIDS project will expand on an idea called “client-managed secret mode”, which offers a clean separation of key management operations and DID operations. With this approach, wallets can simply manage keys, and communicate with a Universal Registrar service for the purpose of creating DIDs. Some early design and implementation work of this idea exists, but […]

TrustChain Open Call #2 –  Results and Statistics

TrustChain Open Call #2 – User Privacy and Data Governance, focused on trustworthy online platforms that preserve user’s data privacy and provide strong data governance frameworks, was opened for submissions from 20 July 2023 to 20 September 2023 at 17:00 CEST here. With an indicative budget of 1,989,000.00 EUR, the call aimed to support up […]

TrustChain Open Call 2 results: funding 15 new projects to build the Next Generation Internet!

Meet the 15 teams that will define, upgrade/extend the state-of-the-art in creating trustworthy online platforms that preserve user’s data privacy and provide strong data governance frameworks.     As the result of the Open Call #2 with focus on “User Privacy and Data Governance”, 15 teams were selected based on their ideas, knowledge, skills and growth vision […]

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: Evaluators for TrustChain OC#3

Calling all experts with experience in evaluating EU funded projects! TrustChain aims to set up an External Pool of Evaluators to support the review process of the proposals received from TrustChain Open call #3 – Economics and Democracy. The External Pool of Evaluators gathers a set of recognized independent experts highly knowledgeable on different NGI […]

TrustChain Open Call 3 webinar #2

Calling all developers, innovators, researchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs! €1.755.000 will be distributed among (up to) 15 selected projects!   The objective of this TrustChain Open Call 3 (OC3) on “Economics & democracy” is to define and build market mechanisms for data exchange and data trading as well as innovative win-win federated business models open data […]