In the MyData Matters blog series, MyData members introduce innovative solutions and practical use cases that leverage personal data in line with MyData values.
What is fairsfair?
Coming fresh into the mobility industry, one of MyData Global’s active community members: Ferdinand Burgersdijk, was faced with issues concerning interoperability and compliance. About seven years ago, he started a research and development project, titled ‘fairsfair’. Intuitively, he sensed that the problems could be solved that would allow individuals to seamlessly use any means of transport, from public services to shared bike/car solutions. With a fragmented landscape of apps, ticketing platforms, and identification means, he found out that the main thing all these digital solutions have in common is that they support digitised interactions. Interactions that either allow for transport services or payment services to take place. Working with the mobility industry and the data industry in stride, he started to develop a protocol that embodies the transaction as the combination of the service and payment interactions.
Plug-and-play service released this fall – supporting all kinds of transactions
Although the protocol was identified by many as a simple solution for everyday use cases and data exchanges, the way forward was slow. This time was not idly spent. The pace allowed to understand and relate to other projects and programs, and to learn how to combine our tacit way of interactions and their basis founded in legal principles, with a thin information management layer. In the course of events, he and his development teams needed to move away from centralised solution thinking. On the other hand, seeing the need for plug-and-play ease of use, the fairsfair ‘transaction broker’ included identification and authorisation mechanisms. Under the foundation, the metadata will be published as well as its certified usage under the fairsfair label (fairsfair.org; foundation). Thanks to recent investments, a plug-and-play service is being released this fall under fairsfair.io. This version is extremely scalable to support transactions of any kind, reaching from data to daily use cases on a massive scale. Designed to allow anyone to travel by any public means, including parking, seamlessly.
Mobility app mobyyou connects with fairsfair.io – data interoperability
In practice ‘mobyyou’, an application that uses bluetooth for access and payment in public transport and hospitality, will connect to the fairsfair.io this fall. Based upon the standardised transaction metadata (under the fairsfair.org label), developed with the mobility and ticketing industry, the transaction and its activities are identifiable for its input and output. Mobyyou will interact with the transaction broker, with each of the transaction activities managed de-centrally. This means that for each of the activities from payment to check-in/out, Mobyyou is granted data access and usage permissions, only for and during the transaction activity and the given contextual identity of the activity. This contextual respect of data usage provides full compliance with EU regulations and serves privacy by default. The alignment of output allows users of fairsfair to work interoperably with whatever (personal) data management solution is in place.
MyData Global operator community provide multi-domain data solutions.
For the MyData Global community, this means that our operators will be able to service ‘data subjects’ not only in the mobility domain, but with any domain, such as healthcare, employment, energy, retail, financial, and even the public domain. They can collect the actual transaction details on behalf of the individual, and allow reuse thereof for individual, community, business and societal benefits. On the other hand, MyData Global operators can manage the access and usage of the personal data required to establish the contextual identity in a controlled and scalable fashion, even storing specific profiles. For instance, when travelling in an urban context, anonymously, or cross-borders, by exposing personal credentials to designated stakeholders only. Thanks to fairsfair.io and fairsfair.org, operators can tie individuals into any domain while catering to the outcomes they want neither compromising on convenience nor privacy.
Author: Ferdinand Burgersdijk
A short bio:
With a clear view and pragmatic contributions to businesses, and authorities up to EU data strategy deployments, Ferdinand is a thought leader for a fair data and digital economy. Leveraging legal principles to enable individuals, businesses and authorities to easily manage data, catering to the outcomes they want, while neither compromising on privacy nor convenience. Data processing is like a production line of individual activities contributing to a desired outcome. For each activity one can plan the input and throughput to deliver the output. Seeing that many systems organise similar activities, it’s only logical to align them. This view led to the development and deployment a data-sharing protocol easy to integrate with whatever (personal) data management system is in place, fairsfair.io. Supported by an open source semantic model, catering to interoperability and compliance, fairsfair.org.
A short introduction of fairsfair foundation:
Data exchanges revolve around interoperability, trust, and value creation. The trust component is a combination of control and accountability. On the one hand data processing requires consent by the data owner, and on the other access and use of that data needs to be accountable in order to establish that it was processed and provided in just cause.
For a fair data and digital economy, fairsfair leverages legal principles to enable individuals, businesses and authorities to easily manage data, catering to the outcomes they want, while neither compromising on privacy nor convenience. The foundation contributes by advocating interoperability and compliance, providing a semantic model, and certification. The semantic model supports the exchange of data, as agreed by parties. The output aligns the entities, independent of technology choices or business rules. The transaction activities set the stage for the data input, safeguarding contextual identities.
The basis of reciprocal consent is the transaction process. The model caters to data governance and user privacy in data exchanges, as such, or within the context of a transaction (services/goods for payment). Each process is constituted by a sequence of activities that each require data usage and access policies. The implementation provides control over the (minimally) required data which is needed to fulfil the activity, only for and during the data processing activity itself.
About mobyyou:
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