Trends in experiments in EU-US research and innovation. Report of the NGIatlantic.eu session at the NGI Policy Summit 2020

Organising a session during the NGI Policy Summit 2020 was an ideal opportunity to provide policymakers with an overview of the major trends and trajectories in EU – US research collaboration and context for NGI-related policy developments in the present and future. Three of the selected NGIatlantic.eu projects were given an opportunity to pitch their experiments, present their initial results and how these would contribute to ongoing policy dialogues in the EU and US.

Decentralized data governance

George C. Polyzos, Director, Mobile Multimedia Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business, presented the “Self-Certifying Names for Named Data Networking” project, whose solution builds on the emerging paradigm of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), a new form of self-sovereign identification under standardization by W3C in Name Data Networking (NDN). He was followed by Berat Senel, Research Engineer at PlanetLab Europe, EdgeNet, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), who introduced the "CacheCash Experiment", leveraging on the Content Delivery Network (CDN) technology that provides a service in which interested users run caches, and they are incentivised to participate by receiving a crypto-currency (Cachecoin) in exchange for serving content to other users.

Privacy and Trust Enabling Data Marketplace for Sustainable Supply Chains 

Moving to the privacy and trust topics, Tomaz Levak, Managing Director at Trace Labs Ltd. introduced the “Food Data Marketplace” (FDM) project, which is fostering new economic models for sustainable food supply chains based on data and employing privacy-by-design approach to enable farmers and cooperatives to regain control of their data, give it a price tag, and sell it to interested partners in the supply chain.

The full report is available here

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