Solid: Your data, your choice

The MyData principles define a framework
to design personal data solutions.

1. Human-centric control
2. Individual as integration point
3. Individual empowerment
4. Portability
5. Transparency and accountability
6. Interoperability

Solid aims to restore choice
by separating data from apps.

• Typical platforms nowadays store data
  inseparably from an application.
• By separating data from apps,
  we create independent choices.
• All 6.5 million people in Flanders
  will receive a Solid personal data pod.

Every piece of data created by a person
or about them, is stored in a data pod.

Apps and services appear similarly,
but they blend data from many sources.

A person can grant apps and people access
to very specific parts of their data.

Separating app and storage competition
creates better offerings for all parties.

By abandoning data harvesting,
we empower people and companies alike.

Solid is an open standard to implement the
MyData principles in a sustainable way.

1. Human-centric control
2. Individual as integration point
3. Individual empowerment
4. Portability
5. Transparency and accountability
6. Interoperability

Solid is not an app or platform.
It is a way of building for the Web.

• Solid is an ecosystem.
  • Standards enable interoperability.
• Solid is a movement.
  • We shift how people think about data.
• Solid is a community.
  • Building Solid requires people,
    companies, governments, institutions.

Solid enables interoperable data vaults
through standardization.

• Solid builds on existing Web standards.
• The standards cover:
  • data pods
  • applications or services
  • identity
• Solid specifies the interactions
  between data, apps, and identities.

Several open-source implementations
of servers, apps, and libraries exist.

• server
  • Use a public instance or host your own.
• apps
  • data browser
  • contacts
  • photos
  • meeting organizer
  • …
• libraries
  • authentication
  • data processing
  • …

Solid servers separate apps from data
by implementing a set of specifications.

• Think of a data pod as a USB stick.
  • connector shape
  • electrical signals
  • file system format
  • …
• Ensure data can be accessed by Solid apps
  regardless of the server that stores it.

We've built the Community Solid Server
to grow with the community’s needs.

• follows the Solid specifications
  • anticipate envisaged spec evolutions
• helpful companion for app developers
  • lightweight and easy to configure
• support extension and experimentation
  • testing bed for the future of Solid

The Community Solid Server Association
will steward the server and its resources.

• Ensuring the sustainability of the server.
• Starting under Open Knowledge Belgium.
• Guarantee long-term maintenance
  and inspire the future of Solid.
• Join us to help determine that future!