Trust in the Digital Age
Today’s world where datafication is playing a key role, requires new ways of creating trust. To help avoid geo-political, societal, ecological and economical disasters. To save money, resources and even lives. To become resilient. To stay relevant and future-proof. To grasp the opportunities and bounties of this Digital Age within safe and ethical boundaries.
This new trust is fully depended on the quality, integrity and trustworthiness of the data, trust in the data, as well as the processes, organisations, people and technology related thereto.
By now, we have to accept this can no longer be delivered by a single entity, standard or register. The single point of truth concepts we have worked with for many decades are now becoming a single point of failure. While trustworthy parties playing by the rules are exploring ways of working together and building this new trust, we see others, malicious actors, accelerating and bypassing the traditional trust anchors.
Today trust in transactions of any kind can only be achieved in our 24/7, digital world by cooperation of organisations contributing with their ‘points of truth’ by adding attributes in a chain of trust. Thus building together a platform working towards a 100% verifiable truth.
About us
Mission
The mission of the New Trust Foundation (NTF) is to promote and support trust in, trustworthiness of and accountable use of digital identity, data, attributes, personas and authorities of people, organisations and systems.
One of the challenges we face in this dynamic Digital Age is that context, convergence and huge amounts of data and stakeholders lead to complexity, including the difficulty to organising, setting, documenting and managing the appropriate levels of trust and trustworthiness by organizations in relationships, engagements and transactions of any kind. We, however, see this as a huge opportunity, if we organize ourselves, and understand each other well.
The ultimate aim of the New Trust Foundation is to create a vibrant, long-lasting, transparent and lively network where accredited participants actively support trust ecosystems by providing, organising and using attributes and other essential components based on legislation by governments and services provided by the symbiosis of organisations and society, either public, private, NGOs, individuals and the like.
Vision
To do so, we need new ways of cooperating by governments, NGOs, companies and institutes around the world. They need to join forces, work with open source applications and share knowledge, computing power and means. For most participants in this network this will lead to a new way of working and thinking about their core operation, since they are no longer the appointed trust anchor, but part of a new chain of trust.
However, the role of legislators, regulators and registrars will still be very viable, since they need to continue to contribute to this chain of trust with the attributes they are in charge of. This will (need to) lead to a paradigm shift in our way of thinking about and working in the fields of identity, authentication and authorisation.
NTF Multi-stakeholder Knowledge Platform Community
New Trust Foundation engages with a broad, multi-stakeholder community with experts and others, in an independent and neutral way, informally contributing where possible and sharing knowledge, in expert meetings and plenary meetings organised by the Foundation. Meetings are generally held under the Chatham House Rule.
New Trust is all about dynamic multi-stakeholder collaboration in a transparent, consistent, accountable and otherwise trustworthy way. This, to co-create comfort, confidence and courage to share knowledge, jointly innovate, listen, act, learn and improve. All this to co-design, co-build, achieve and sustain the main enabler and successfactor to address societal challenges in this Digital Age: trust.
Therefore, our community consists of experts and others from the private and public sector, academia, NGOs and others in the field of dynamic attributes, trusted data sharing, digital ecosystems, digital identity and the like.
Our latest Knowledge Platform Community Event, in Nieuwspoort, The Hague, was attended by such persons from more than 15 public sector organisations, 15 private sector organisations, and 15 other sector organisations.
NTF Programs
NTF High Secure & Secure Convenient Communication Platform
As per the statutes of the foundation ('stichting'), one of the objectives of New Trust Foundation is to initiate, enable, facilitate and otherwise support programs and related projects thereunder.
An ongoing program for several years already is about digital dynamic attribute-based authorisation ('DDAA') and related trust and trustworthiness regarding persons, persona, organisations, objects, and their respective intertwined communication, relationships, transactions and other engagements.
Another notable, ongoing program (and project) is the following, kicked-off by specific urgent Covid-19 pandemic communication and engagement challenges and related urgent requests:
The NTF (High) Secure Communication Platform is built and run in the Netherlands, for selected public, public-private, private-public and private sector, NGOs being either national, cross-sector, cross-border, cross-regional, European and international organizations in need for (high) secure communication capabilities for sensitive, confidential or other important communication. The Dutch Government supports the development of the platform. Some notable key features of the platform are for instance (where a more comprehensive overview can be found below):
- Privacy and security developed by default and design; multifactor authentication (currently with more than 7 factors); no storage of data; hosted in The Netherlands; communication is end-2-end encrypted (E2EE)
- Available as-a-service and on premises for (international/secure) communication by governments, public-private relations and other trusted parties. Participation at the platform is upon request only. Browser based, operational by bringing your own device (BYOD)
- Upon request service packages for additional capabilities are available, where requested in combination with hardened managed laptops.
Some related documents and other reads:
A. NTF Communication Platform Most Notable Capabilities
B. Algemene Rekenkamer publicatie over Digital Thuiswerken (in Dutch)
C. Digicampus article about Ecosystems of Trust (in Dutch, from page 66)
D. Rijksprogramma voor Duurzame Digitale Informatiehuishouding; Interview (in Dutch)
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Stichting New Trust Foundation is located at (1075 AT) Emmalaan 21, Amsterdam, in which shared offices its daily operations are facilitated.