Human Colossus blog
Journey to a Dynamic Data Economy
The Human Colossus Foundation introduces key components of a Dynamic Data Economy through a series of blog posts
Securing Your Digital Future: A Three-Part Series on Enhanced Privacy through Data Protection - Part 1
In 'Securing Your Digital Future,' Part 1 of this three-part series unveils the pivotal role of the Blinding Identity Taxonomy (BIT) and its Supplementary Document in fortifying data privacy. Emphasizing the critical need to protect sensitive personal data, we explore the foundation of data semantics—bolstered by the BIT framework crafted by the Human Colossus Foundation and backed by Kantara Initiative—as the cornerstone for identifying and securing sensitive data attributes, paving the way for robust data privacy in the digital landscape.
DDE Presented to Technology Consortium in India
Helsinki, August 16th 2022. As part of the Human Colossus Foundation's rollout of Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) in July, the HCF founders delivered Data Governance and Semantics, a three-part series of talks to the Indian tech community as part of Hasgeek's Privacy Mode initiative, a forum of discussion for understanding the privacy and security needs of the Indian tech ecosystem through guides, research, collaboration, events, and conferences.
Linux Foundation Public Health introduces the Global COVID Certificate Network to operationalize the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint
After more than a year of pandemic restrictions that resulted in a greater than 70% decline in travel and tourism activity, health status exchange to enable economies and borders to reopen has generated a heated debate at the interface of public health, personal freedom, and economic imperatives.
To provide a collaborative roadmap to address some of the critical interoperability challenges, the Human Colossus Foundation aims to present some technological realities to a broader audience for societal debate courtesy of two seminal press releases.
Digital Immunization Passport has been selected as one of the brightest data portability projects in Europe
The Human Colossus Foundation joins a select family of innovators contributing to the European effort to build a safer and more efficient digital infrastructure for all. In partnership with OwnYourData, the Austrian-based foundation and creator of the “Semantic Container” concept, our joint proposal was one of 11 selected projects among 182 applicants - a 6% acceptance rate! Funded by NGI, the project team will implement a Proof-of-Concept for the digital equivalent of the World Health Organisation Vaccination Passport (WHO’s Yellow book) with privacy-and-consent-by-design at its core. See the official press release for more information.
Trust in Digital Systems = Human Accountability + Cryptographic Assurance
On May 5th, 2020, The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, announced that it will host the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation, an independent project to enable trustworthy exchange and authentication of data between any two parties on the Internet.