Team
Our team brings together seasoned experts in software development (enterprise, open source), digital platforms, decentralised ecosystems, the music industry, media & copyright law, data standards, data analytics, data privacy, interaction design, innovation diplomacy, political philosophy and public-private partnerships.
Founding members have led multiparty consortia, built and sold startups, built industry leading software, and built open Internet standards used in every web browser today.
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pillars
Welcome to the Pillars section of our website. Here, we discuss the key technologies and techniques that form the foundation of our products and services. These pillars are essential for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our offerings. We will provide an overview of each pillar and explain how they work together to support our business.
Separation of
Data Powers
Traditionally, the separation and balance between powers has been the key principle of government. Known as the 'trias politica', this principle is a necessary condition for trust within societies, and has existed for over 2500 years. We separate powers by enabling you to control your data and decide who to share it with.
Data Sovereignty
& Privacy by Design
Rightful owners should control who has access to their data. Privacy-by-design means privacy and data protection are at the forefront design specifications, architecture of information, and communication systems and technologies. This facilitates compliance with privacy and data protection principles (*).
Poldermodel
Decision-making
We believe in the Dutch consensus decision-making model that has been described as a pragmatic recognition of pluriformity and cooperation despite differences. The model comes from socio-economic policymaking in the 1980/90s (**). 'Polder' means tracts of land enclosed by dikes (since to not drown in the Netherlands we have to work together). DRX applies and scales this model digitally.
Digital Identity
We work closely with identity providers for people, processes and products. Open Signum's technology acts as a "blind gateway", built on open source software, and also can act as a privacy-by-design custodian, eg on transactions between verified attestations.
Decentralized Governance
Distributed storage of data and decentralized governance models provide trust. Governance occurs through a versatile and fine-grained rights model with a multilayered structure of custodians that control different aspects of current and future Open Signum protocols, code and potential networks.
Verified Attestations
Granular attestation levels per record verify correctness of the information stored on clustered ledgers. These also are aimed at correctly accounting for attribution. With others we continue to develop better regulated & decentralized incentive mechanisms for innovation ecosystems.
Media Value Chain
The media industry suffers greatly from incomplete and inconsistent rights owner information. Together we must address the entire flow of musical works, sound recordings, licensing and royalty payments. Together with industry partners we build solutions to solve this problem.
Copyright
The music industry suffers from incomplete and inconsistent overviews. Therefore together we must address the entire flow from musical works, sound recordings to streaming data. Together with music industry partners we build solutions to solve this problem, while also integrating these in your current workflows.
Industry Standards
We embrace existing standards in software, music and compliance, e.g. RDx, DDEX, ISRC, ISWC, UPC, IPI, ISNI for music. In addition we support the Open Music Initiative's API and Mycelia's Creative Passport. With Microsoft we work closely on adhering to assurance standards like ISAE 3000 for non-financial information.
(*) The privacy by design framework was developed by Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, following her joint work with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in 1995. Source: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/glossary/p_en
(**) The Dutch polder model is characterised by the tri-partist cooperation between employers' organisations, labour unions and the government. These talks are embodied in the Dutch Social-Economic Council which serves as the central forum to discuss labour issues and has a long tradition of consensus, often defusing labour conflicts and avoiding strike actions. Similar models are in use in Finland, namely the Comprehensive Income Policy Agreement and universal validity of collective labour agreements. It is thought that the privacy/IP-lawyer and politician Ina Brouwer was the first to use the term "poldermodel" in her 1990 article ("Socialism as Polder Model?"). Source: Wikipedia.
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