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🌍 Looking Back at the Gaia-X Summit 🌟 Benoît Alessandroni, CEO of Startin'blox, attended the Gaiax Summit, an event marked by notable advancements. Here’s what stood out: 🚀 On the Technical Front: The Gaia-X Lab has introduced a library that simplifies the creation of Verifiable Credentials—a promising tool for those exploring Dataspaces and seeking to strengthen compliance and interoperability of data. This development aligns with Gaia-X's strategy to streamline the adoption of its standards and principles. The new release of the Gaia-X Digital Clearing House Components, named "Loire," marks a significant milestone. Presented at the Summit’s Tech Theatre, this release delivers essential tools for automating compliance based on the Gaia-X Compliance Document 24.06. These components operationalize key elements of the Gaia-X Trust Framework, further enhancing trust and interoperability within data ecosystems. To complement this advancement, a new course from the Gaia-X Academy has been launched, offering participants technical training on implementing compliance and interoperability frameworks. 🌐 Ecosystem on the Move: The Gaia-X ecosystem continues to expand with the announcement of new hubs in Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland, solidifying Gaia-X's presence in the Nordic region and beyond. These hubs are set to play a pivotal role in driving regional innovation and fostering the adoption of Gaia-X standards. Early progress with Simpl demonstrates notable maturation within the Dataspaces ecosystem, a positive sign of growth despite ongoing challenges in building robust technical infrastructure. 💡 Meetings and discussions: Benoît Alessandroni had the pleasure of connecting with Rajiv Rajani MSc from iSHARE Foundation, discussing the potential of linking our NGI Sargasso Search project. We met Benoit Tabutiaux from DataSpaceLab proposed deploying connectors in controlled environments – a promising avenue to explore. Startin’blox was proud to hear positive feedback from Sebastian of Sovity and Mathijs from @SCSN and researcher at TNO about their podcast participation. We hope that a deeper collaboration with Sovity is still to be defined. ✨ Conclusion: This Summit reflects Gaia-X's current state: tangible progress alongside significant challenges. It's an ambitious journey, and there’s still much work to be done to make Dataspaces a sustainable reality. Let’s share your point of view in comment! 💬 https://lnkd.in/dk9NyBWZ

📺 Startin'Blox and CoopVenture on Bsmart! In this interview, Patricia ABRAHAM-BRIFFOD from CoopVenture and Sylvain Le Bon, CEO of Startin'Blox, share their vision for digital sovereignty. Learn how CoopVenture's innovative model supports Startin’Blox in its mission to promote data peer-to-peer and sovereign sharing. A virtuous collaboration driving a sustainable digital ecosystem. 🌍🤝 This interview is unfortunately only in French Enjoy watching! 🎥 👉 https://lnkd.in/dkVx7D58

Découvrez le tout dernier podcast Data Space de Startin'blox, notre partenaire dans le consortium du projet européen TEMS 🎧 Le podcast donne la parole aux acteurs clés de l'écosystème Data Space, en mettant en avant des initiatives concrètes qui transforment le domaine 🚀 Dans le 3e épisode, Matthias De Bièvre, président de Prometheus-X Education & Skills partage les derniers développements. 🎙 Il explique comment Simpl et Prometheus-X se complètent, et décrit l'architecture technique choisie. Pour rappel, Prometheus-X collabore avec Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL) pour les données et le cloud, en partenariat avec de nombreuses organisations publiques et privées en Europe 🇪🇺 Mathias de Bièvre est également très impliqué dans le domaine de la portabilité des données, car CEO de VISIONS. Il a participé au projet européen DAPSI (NGI Data Portability and Services Incubator) opéré par Cap Digital, qui a permis durant 3 ans de sélectionner, accompagner et accélérer une 50aine de projets ! 👉 Ecouter cet épisode : https://lnkd.in/duThQTJa Les deux premiers épisodes sont également disponibles : · #1: Avec Dr. Sebastian Opriel, CTO of sovity : · #2: Avec Matthijs Punter, researcher at TNO and co-founder of SCSN : Marc Bourhis, Virginie Giraud, Antoine Allard #podcast #dataspaces #tems

🌐 Joining the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)! 🌐 The W3C is a global standards organization dedicated to promoting and organizing the technological standards that make the Web accessible to everyone. Since its founding, the W3C has contributed to the development of core standards like HTML, CSS, XML, and many others that ensure the Web’s interoperability and evolution. By joining the W3C, we’re excited to actively participate in the "Linked Web Storage" working group. This group continues the work of the Solid community group with the goal of transforming certain Solid standards into official recommendations. We believe these new standards will address critical issues around security, privacy, and interoperability, which are core to our mission. 💡 Why is this important? Because we believe in a free Web based on open standards, managed collectively and respectful of every user’s rights. We’re proud to contribute to building a more accessible and inclusive Web! https://www.w3.org/ 👉 Stay tuned for updates

🌍🍎 An Innovative Project to Transform Local Food Commerce in Québec! 🍎🌍 In Québec, four local markets — Les Choux gras, La Chèvre et le Chou, Du terroir à l’Armoire, and Les Radieux — have joined forces to tackle a major challenge: competing with supermarkets online while supporting local food producers and retailers. We are working with these local markets to meet this challenge! The goal is to enable them to retail each other’s products online, in order for each of them to display a larger palette of food products to their clients. This innovative marketplace is powered by Locavora and developed in partnership with Open Food Network. It provides a unified shopping experience, making a wide range of local products available at the click of a button. Key partners of the project include the Federation of Cooperatives of Québec (CQCM), and the European NGI Sargasso program, who support this collaborative experiment and sustainable local commerce. 🔍 Why is this important? - For consumers: It provides an easy “one stop” access to local products while using the local market platform they are used to. - For wholesale buyers: It simplifies sourcing local products in the quantities they need. - For local farmers: Higher margins by increasing local retail opportunities without additional cost in time or money.  - For the environment: Less transport means a reduced carbon footprint and more resilient local food supply chains. 💡 Discover how this project is exploring ways to scale local food commerce and inspiring similar initiatives in other regions! 👉 https://lnkd.in/deJSppXk 

🌱  Eat, Grow, give waterloo region! 🌱 We are proud to publish a new initiative dedicated to promoting a local and sustainable food ecosystem. In partnership with Open Food Network, we have created an interoperable platform that highlights the farms, markets, community gardens, and food access programs in the Waterloo region in Canada. This project aims to: - Support local producers, - Promote access to fresh and healthy foods, - Encourage community engagement. Click here to discover more : https://lnkd.in/ey-Vzup4 Everyone can contribute to a resilient food system by buying local, cultivating, or getting involved in sharing initiatives. We contribute to it by making data about products and producers available across platforms 🌍❤️ #dataspace #interoperability #project #localfood

in case you have not listened to it yet, here is episode #3 of the Data Space Podcast with Matthias De Bièvre We talk about everything Skills / Personal Data and #DataSpaces I hope you enjoy this episode!

Discover the parcours of Matthias De Bièvre and the role he is playing in shaping up the Data Space ecosystem through his involvement in Visions, aNewGovernance, Prometheus-X , DS4Skills - Data Space for Skills and more Enjoy the podcast episode!

🎙The third episode of the DataSpace Podcast is live! 🎙 In the first episode, we welcomed Dr. Sebastian Opriel, CTO of sovity, who shared insights on how sovity helps companies seamlessly connect in data spaces. In the second episode, Matthijs Punter from TNO and co-founder of the Smart Connected Supplier Network (SCSN) discussed how the SCSN boosts supply chain productivity for high-tech manufacturers by 20% using IDSA standards and their Four-Corner Model. For the third episode, we’re joined by Matthias De Bièvre , a committed entrepreneur in the Data Space ecosystem and co-founder of: VISIONS, aNewGovernance, Prometheus-X Data Space, DS4Skills - Data Space for Skills initiative. Matthias will update us on the latest developments in the Skills Data Space, explain how Simpl and Prometheus-X complement each other, and detail the technical architecture chosen for their Data Space. You can listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon music. https://lnkd.in/dmBGY6c5 Enjoy the episode, and feel free to share your thoughts! 🎧  #Interoperability #Dataspace #Podcast #Dataspacepodcast

📢 @Startin'Blox Raises 600K€ with the Support of CoopVenture and Crédit Coopératif Startin'Blox is a B2B data search engine enabling interoperability and data sovereignty. We are proud and grateful to announce the successful completion of a 600K€ fundraising round! 🙏💪 This investment strengthens our mission to build open, data-respectful technological solutions that enable more responsible digital governance. 🌐🔒 CoopVenture, a key player in funding cooperative projects, contributed 300K€ to this round. 💸🤝 Their support was complemented by Crédit Coopératif, a major partner in cooperative banking, who shares our ambition to transform digital spaces, making them more ethical and accessible. 🤲🌍 With this funding, Startin'Blox will continue advancing solutions that put interoperability at the service of data sovereignty. 🔗💻 A huge thank you to CoopVenture, Crédit Coopératif, and everyone who believes in our project! 🙌✨ Read our blog to know more about us : https://lnkd.in/dTsKnky4 #Interoperability #Fundraising