NIIS among the founding members of Data Spaces Alliance Finland

Data spaces create opportunities for organisations to accelerate growth and innovation, secure access to critical resources, and enable data sharing between multiple actors. Data space technologies are also important enablers for developing artificial intelligence solutions.

At the end of the Nordic Data Festival 2024 on 10 April, the Data Spaces Alliance Finland network was launched. It provides its members with a unified view of developing cross-organisational solutions.

The 22 founding members of the alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which creates a lightweight governance model for goal-oriented cooperation between the actors. The founding members are:

1001 Lakes, Business Finland, CSC, DataSpace Europe, Fintraffic, Finnish Land Survey, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Headai, Kela, Loihde, MyData Global, Nokia, Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), Platform of Trust, Siili Solutions, Sitra, SIX Mobile Work Machines, Smart City Innovation Cluster (SCIC), Struggle Creative, Technology Industries, TIEKE and VTT. 

The Alliance builds on proven cooperation models in Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and other countries, as well as on lessons learned from data space initiatives in different sectors.