Empowering Digital Product Passports: OwnYourData’s Role in Secure and Interoperable Data Ecosystems
We are excited to announce OwnYourData’s involvement in the groundbreaking PACE-DPP project: Promoting Accelerated Circular Economy through Digital Product Passports, spearheaded by Virtual Vehicle. As a key consortium partner, OwnYourData is leading the crucial work focused on Data Intermediaries in the work package 4 DPP Data Ecosystem.
PACE-DPP is motivated by providing guardrails and solution bricks for tackling the basic technological and regulatory challenges for a smooth instantiation of DPP-based Ecosystems. Industrial relevant applications from supply-chains in electronics and wood/pulp/paper industries provide a solid basis for use-case driven experimentation with key enabling digital technologies like Data Spaces and Digital Twins. The essential result will represent the provision of lightweight accessible DPP services for unleashing the hidden potential of innovative circular economy business models, within the context of the European Green Deal.
OwnYourData plays a critical role in the PACE-DPP project by providing essential expertise in self-sovereign identity (SSI) and data governance for the emerging Digital Product Passport (DPP) ecosystem. We contribute to the semantic annotation of data structures to ensure interoperability within the DPP data ecosystem. Additionally, OwnYourData supplies technical building blocks for decentralized identifiers (DIDs), Verifiable Credentials (VCs), and Verifiable Presentations (VPs), supporting attestations and authentication mechanisms in compliance with OpenID specifications (OID4VC, OID4VCI, OID4VP). By implementing these SSI components, OwnYourData enhances trust and security in data sharing processes, fostering a scalable and privacy-preserving digital infrastructure for product traceability.
Beyond its technical contributions, OwnYourData actively works to integrate a neutral data intermediary (https://intermediary.at) that facilitates the secure storage and controlled exchange of product-related information. The intermediary serves as key enablers in supply chain processes, ensuring that product data remains accessible and verifiable while respecting privacy and compliance requirements. In addition we engage with stakeholders and disseminates human-centric aspects of digital product passports through collaborations with initiatives such as MyData, promoting transparency and user empowerment in data ecosystems.
The OwnYourData team in the PACE-DPP project consists of experts in data governance, self-sovereign identity, and semantic technologies. Dr. Christoph Fabianek, an authority in data exchange and SSI frameworks, leads the team’s contributions to decentralized identity solutions and Verifiable Credentials. Dr. Fajar J. Ekaputra brings expertise in semantic web technologies, ensuring structured and interoperable data representation. Gulsen Guler, MSc, specializes in data literacy and human-centric solutions, supporting accessibility and usability of digital product passport implementations. DI(FH) Markus Heimhilcher provides expertise in system operations, database management, and Kubernetes maintenance, ensuring a scalable and secure infrastructure. Paul Feichtenschlager contributes skills in data modeling, statistics, and software development, strengthening the technical foundation of OwnYourData’s role in the project.
We look forward to contributing our expertise to this transformative project and collaborating with other consortium members to establish a secure, interoperable, and privacy-preserving Digital Product Passport ecosystem. Stay tuned for more updates on our journey with PACE-DPP! For more information about the project, visit DPP-Austria.at.
This Lighthouse Project has been made possible by financial contributions from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) under grant number 917177, as well as from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), supported by the German Research Promotion Agency (DLR-PT).
