Data & Common Sense

With Solid, you choose where you store
every single piece of data you produce.

You can grant apps and people access
to very specific parts of your data.

Separating app and storage competition
drives permissionless innovation.

Solid is an ecosystem of data and apps
that work seamlessly together.

• data pods
  • profile
  • photos
  • comments
  • likes
  • biking data
  • …
• applications
  • personalized route planner
  • exercise tracker
  • …
• standards
  • open ecosystem
  • level playing field

The Solid server and several apps exist
and are usable for developers.

• Solid server
  • store your data online with access control
  • free storage at solid.community and inrupt.net
• apps
  • data browser
  • contacts
  • photos
  • meeting organizer
  • …
• libraries
  • authentication
  • data processing
  • …

Solid is transitioning from research project
into an ecosystem backed by start-ups.

• MIT has been our home
  • initial development of server and apps
• Inrupt is accelerating development
  • open up the ecosystem for all
  • maintain common building blocks as open source
  • create tooling for developers
  • offer services and apps

At Ghent University – imec, we are actively
looking to collaborate on data commons.

Some of the projects we’re working on:

• Smart Flanders
  • transforming 13 cities in Flanders
• multimodal route planning
  • combining e-bikes with public transport
• Velopark
  • like VeiligStallen.nl, but everyone can suggest data