Solid som fri innovasjonsplattform

Before the Web,
the world was highly heterogeneous.

• Exchanging and connecting information was hard.
  • different hardware
  • different software
• Innovation was hard.
  • For which target machines should platforms be built?
  • Developers depended on software and hardware vendors.

The Web strives to be universal, and thereby enables permissionless innovation.

• Anyone can use the Web, regardless of
  • hardware

    desktop phone tablet watch …

  • software

    operating system browser app …

• Developers don’t depend on these to innovate.
  • Build for the Web!
  • Standards provide interoperability.

Permissionless innovation has brought unprecedented creativity to the world.

Universality has been under threat multiple times in the past 30 years.

• browser wars
  • Your technical innovations depend on one browser.
• search engine wars
  • The reach of your innovations depends on one crawler.
• platform wars
  • Your innovation depends on user data and identity controlled by a centralized platform.

The current massive centralization hurts diversity, innovation, and choice.

• If you have resources to build 1 API integration:
  • will it be facebook.com or private-identity-provider.org?
• API and app developers depend on centralized platforms for data and identity.
  • …or they have to become such a platform themselves.
• People lose ownership of their data and cannot easily switch to other apps.
  • Great innovation cannot attract locked-in customers.

People choose where they store every single piece of data they produce.

They can grant apps and people access to very specific parts of their 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, sensor data …

• applications

  news reader, social feed, document collaboration,

• standards

  HTTP, URL, Resource Description Framework, Linked Data Platform, Linked Data Notifications …

The crucial challenges in Solid
are solved by hypermedia.

• If we all store our own data, how do we connect it to others’ data?
• How can apps share data, without too many prior agreements?
• How do we integrate data from multiple data pods?

With JSON-LD, every piece of data can link to any other piece of data.

{
  "@context":  "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "id":        "#ruben-likes-apidays2018",
  "type":      "Like",
  "actor":     "https://ruben.verborgh.org/profile/#me",
  "object":    "https://www.apidays.co/paris#this",
  "published": "2018-12-12T10:00:00Z"
}

Data shapes and their semantics enable layered compatibility.

{
  "@context":  "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "id":        "#ruben-likes-apidays2018",
  "type":      "Like",
  "actor":     "https://ruben.verborgh.org/profile/#me",
  "object":    "https://www.apidays.co/paris#this",
  "published": "2018-12-12T10:00:00Z"
}

Different source data can be concatenated.

{
  "@context":  "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "@graph": [{
    "type":      "Like",
    "actor":     "https://ruben.verborgh.org/profile/#me",
    "object":    "https://www.apidays.co/paris#this",
    "published": "2018-12-12T10:00:00Z"
  },{
    "type":      "Like",
    "actor":     "https://example.org/people/mehdi#me",
    "object":    "https://www.apidays.co/paris#this",
    "published": "2018-12-12T10:05:00Z"
  }]
}

The current approach to building APIs does not play well with decentralization.

Most Web APIs are monoliths, constructed from the top down.

By building Web APIs from the bottom up, clients can pick granular compatibility.

A Web API ecosystem through feature-based reuse IEEE Internet Computing

Queries are the key to making decentralized apps sustainable.

• We don’t know in advance:
  • the sources we’ll need
  • the API of those sources
• Web APIs can—and will—change, but our applications should not.

An app’s queries can be run anywhere: client, server, intermediaries—or all three.

Forankring i befolkningen?

Folks oppfattninger

• 91% sier at man har mistet kontrollen.
• Folk gir data ikke som en tradeoff, men fordi de ikke har noe valg.

Problemer for næringsutvikling

Fra Mobile App Developers are Suffering

For lave lovkrav

Gjeldsregisterlova

Grooming

GDPR gir rett til dataportabilitet

Men hva er det verdt?

Solid må til for at intensjonen skal oppfylles

Tjenester for befolkingen over deres data

Brukeren i sentrum

Folk er ikke på Altinn

Folk er på Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok

Offentlige tjenester bør på samme plattform som folk bruker i det daglige

Solid bør være en rettighet

Fordi...

• det øker befolkningens sikkerhet
• da har de reelle rettigheter etter GDPR
• du kan unngå sentralisering i det offentlige også
• du kan være der brukeren er

At folk har kontroll på egne data er i alles interesse!

Fordi da kan du komme inn i markedet basert på verdien du legger til

Verdien av dine data

• Du er verdt noen titalls dollar
• Men noen av dine data er uerstattelige
• Hva om du kunne selge dine data?

Noen muligheter

• Data fra strømmåler
• Data om kjøpsmønstere
• Data til produktoptimalisering

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