NGI Forward at IOTSWC Barcelona DIGITAL SUMMIT 2020

Salon: Disposable Identities and Digital Twins

The world rapidly shifts from analogue to digital. Rules have now changed with self-driving connected cars that make decisions not on ‘real’ events but on data streams that can enable predictive analytics and many other forms of augmented decision. These data streams, now can act in the car without the knowledge of the driver. As data becomes as importantб or more important than territory as a means to power (defined as funding capability of future value) new rules of engagement are necessary. By analogy, this extends to the rules of intergovernmental relations. The rules have changed. As data is the new source of future value, identity becomes the main issue in the next decade.

Goods, persons, houses, situations and Industrial processes all radiate data and create digital twins. These twins exist as sets of properties in an analytic layer that is in many hands now but not really under multi stakeholder control. The situation is hybrid in the sense that the digital twins actually begin to actuate back in the analogue objects. This is the moment of ontological change.

With Petros Kavassalis (UAEGAN), Rob Tiffany (Ericsson), Gael Blondelle (Eclipse Foundation) and Michele Nati (IOTA).
Moderator: Rob van Kranenburg