In the public project KickStartTrustee, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, Fraunhofer IESE bundles the competencies of several working groups to develop a framework aimed at supporting and simplifying the establishment of data trustees.
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Data trustees play a crucial role in establishing trust in the digital space and thus promote the shared use of data. As neutral intermediaries between data providers and data users, they enable information worthy of protection and even sensitive information to be passed on to third parties in a targeted and controlled manner. But setting up and operating such offerings entails considerable organizational, legal, and technical challenges.
This is where the project KickStartTrustee comes in. The goal is to develop a framework that supports the implementation of data trustee offerings and facilitates the setup process. At the core of this framework is a comprehensive process description for implementing digital data trustees, with modular building blocks for each step of the process. These building blocks build on the core competencies of Fraunhofer IESE, including creativity and requirements management, positioning in the Digital Ecosystem, security, software architectures for platforms, and even user experience. KickStartTrustee is an ambitious project that covers a broad range of topics and brings together the diverse skills of Fraunhofer IESE. The framework created at the end of the project will already be ready for use in concrete projects and can also serve as a resource for the community, which can further extend it and supplement it with additional building blocks.
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE