fairsfair.io: Transparency and Data Control

On December 4th, MyData member and Awardee fairsfair.io will share insights on transparency and data control through an EU-registered data intermediation service.

Digital Rules, Human Values, a 2025–2026 global seminar series, is organised by The Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), MyData Global, and the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI).

Be part of a Global Seminar on the Future of Digital Governance Let’s rethink digital governance through human-centred market mechanisms! In episode one, we explored how GIDE principles can give digital citizens a stronger role in shaping how their data is used. Episode two shows how these ideas can work in practice through an EU-registered data intermediation service.fairsfair.io is an EU-registered data intermediation service that helps digital citizens stay in control of what they share by making sure data is only used for a specific, agreed-upon purpose. Its approach supports clear, transparent data flows without exposing personal information. Its model is already being applied in mobility and other sectors, offering real-world lessons for creating safer, more accountable digital markets. 

Speakers:
– Dr. Paul Twomey, Co-Chair, Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment, former CEO of ICANN.
– Christopher Wilson, Executive Director, MyData Global.
– Ferdinand Burgersdijk, Founder, fairsfair.io

Speakers will explore how the fairsfair.io model makes data use clearer and more transparent, how people can stay in control of what they share, and how this approach can support the GIDE principles by enabling individual control, trusted representation, strong fiduciary duties and clear, transaction-based negotiation between people and service providers. The series builds on GIDE’s Innovation in the Digital Economy Architecture (IDEA) framework.

Date: 4 December 2025
Time: 1 PM UTC | 2 PM CET | 8 AM US EST | 6:30 PM IST | Midnight Australian AEDT

Learn more about the IDEA Framework:
IDEA framework presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9SQZ32vLp0

Policy brief on the model discussed in Episode One: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/innovation-digital-economy-architecture-ensuring-regulatory-simplification-drives

Contact: ceo@thegide.org
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