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Silicon Economy
Kontakt / Contact
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Dipl.-Inform. Andreas
Nettsträter
Strategische Initiativen /
Strategic Initiatives
Tel. +49 231 9743-286
andreas.nettstraeter@
iml.fraunhofer.de
Timo Erler M. Sc.
Software & Information
Engineering
Tel. +49 231 9743-485
timo.erler@
iml.fraunhofer.de
/ Collaboration with the International Data Spaces,
Gaia-X and the Mobility Data Space
/ With the growing development of platform and specialist/
basic components, the Silicon Economy is also deploying the
International Data Spaces. The Silicon Economy’s approach
of using the International Data Spaces is just as intelligent
and innovative as the idea of the platform ecosystem itself.
In both cases, the process is driven forward not by individual
companies but rather a whole community. This means that
complete open source solutions supported by a community
are created instead of individual, proprietary (and thus standalone)
ones as has been the case previously.
it eliminates essential configuration steps, such as setting up
connections or securing identities.
In addition to the International Data Spaces, Gaia-X and the
Mobility Data Space are also considered important technical
tools for implementing the Silicon Economy. Gaia-X and the
Mobility Data Space are European initiatives for secure and fair
data sharing in which the data provider retains control of what
is happening to their data.
In one of the Silicon Economy’s development projects,
researchers laid the foundations for making the International
Data Spaces available across the board in logistics: A new
software kit, the Wrapper Toolbox, now enables companies
to integrate a data space connector into their IT landscape
quickly and easily. The development includes guidelines and
a software library. The Wrapper itself functions as an adapter
and connector between a service or platform and the connector:
By cutting off all application-specific functionalities,
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