Creating a Dynamic Data Economy for Data-Centric Interactions
We are building a next generation of infrastructure for accurate data usage
Dynamic Data Economy
Inspired by the co-founders' aspiration for accurate real-time data management in an ever more digitalised world, the Foundation coined Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) to empower people and businesses to make better-informed decisions based on insights from harmonised data framed by sound data governance.
The Dynamic Data Economy will advance our digital living, interaction, and growth, through a new data-centric paradigm underpinned by Principles and Technologies to facilitate new structures free from existing platform based economic models. DDE provides bridges to existing standards and legacy infrastructure, respecting jurisdictional and human differences. We call theses “ecosystems”.
The Foundation released DDE v1.0 in July 2022, with the launches of the DDE v1.0 technology suite. In July 2023, we published our Distributed Governance model.
The DDE Principles
The DDE is a decentralised trust infrastructure aligned with the European data strategy. The DDE Principles extend foundational guiding principles that cover the core data domains of Semantic, Inputs, Governance, and Economic. The DDE conceptual infrastructure gives equal importance to the four core data domains, which respectively adhere to the DDE principles: objectual integrity, factual authenticity, consensual veracity, and transactional sovereignty, enabling data ecosystem actors to share accurate information bilaterally in a zero trust environment.
The DDE Stack
To better define and describe what contributes most notably to creating a cross-sectoral trust infrastructure for access and use of data according to the DDE principles, the Foundation developed the DDE Trust Infrastructure Stack that presents "Infrastructure" versus "Security" incrementally through the core data domains. Deployed implementations that align with the Stack will positively affect the relationship between participating actors, incentivising them to share horizontal data across sectors and jurisdictions.
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Founding Donors’ Programme
HCF has secured multiple rounds of government and private funding to build the initial core public utilities for the DDE. With the rollout of the DDE v1.0 in 2022, HCF opens up limited funding opportunities to strategic donors in the private sector through the Founding Donors' Programme to fuel the next development phase and early adoption of the DDE.
The Human Colossus Foundation (HCF) recently participated in the 2025 Geneva Winter Summit, a global gathering of AI experts, policymakers, and innovators hosted by the AI for Developing Countries Forum (AIFOD) at United Nation office at Geneva. The summit focused on AI’s potential for developing countries to drive equitable digital development, culminating in the AIFOD Geneva Winter Summit Declaration 2025, which charts a path for inclusive AI progress.