TDL SPRINT: WHAT’S THAT?
A brief reminder concerning Trust in Digital Life
The Trust in Digital Life (TDL) community,
formed by leading industry partners and institutes, considers trust as a
priority prerequisite. Trustworthy ICT
solutions must become a commodity enforced by citizens and law. The Trust in
Digital Life community has
capabilities to resolve
the issues and
will research, pilot
and promote innovative trustworthy ICT environments and
technologies.
The Trust in Digital Life consortium (TDL) has
been working since 2009 on the operational implementation of an industry driven
ecosystem stimulating the development, promotion and acceptance of trustworthy
ICT. We have since developed a strategic research and innovation agenda (SRA)
for trustworthy ICT for Europe, which has been taken up by the European
Commission. The agenda includes the promotion and support of short projects,
SPRINTS, to validate proof of concepts of technology, interoperability and
trustworthiness.
TDL Sprint Concept
According to the Program Director TDL, Arthur Leitjens: ‘In
these sprints, TDL members collaborate in small projects lasting months to
plan, execute and disseminate the results. Because of the low barriers, the
sprints make it easy for small and medium
enterprises and knowledge institutes to collaborate with large enterprises.’[1]
The purpose of a sprint is to validate new, innovative and
trustworthy ICT in very short project cycles of approximately 3 months with
three project stages: sprint design, execution, and dissemination. After a
sprint is completed, the results are immediately disseminated publicly to a
broad audience. [2]
TrustSeed
and TDL
TrustSeed, a small French company created in 2002, is publisher of
digital exchange security software. We promote a new generation of online
signature in SaaS (Software as a Service), combining digital validation and
trust services in "cloud computing" to guarantee for the
corresponding parties the security, confidentiality, conformity and probative
value of all their digital document management.
TrustSeed met some TDL members and learned about TDL activities during an EMMA conference held in Amsterdam in June 2013. Then TDL invited TrustSeed with observer status to the TDL Workgroup meeting in Budapest (on 11th and 12th September 2013).
TrustSeed has officially joined the community of ‘Trust in Digital Life’- TDL- this year.
During the TDL meetings, TrustSeed met different kind of interesting companies (as well as large companies, SMEs or knowledge institutes) working on innovative trustworthy ICT solutions.
TrustSeed met some TDL members and learned about TDL activities during an EMMA conference held in Amsterdam in June 2013. Then TDL invited TrustSeed with observer status to the TDL Workgroup meeting in Budapest (on 11th and 12th September 2013).
TrustSeed has officially joined the community of ‘Trust in Digital Life’- TDL- this year.
During the TDL meetings, TrustSeed met different kind of interesting companies (as well as large companies, SMEs or knowledge institutes) working on innovative trustworthy ICT solutions.
Among others, we discuss with Microsoft and TDL board members to
share our views and to understand how some objectives could be reached by a
combination of our respective skills and knowledges.
Due the sprint competition, we are now working together on some
issues
regarding authentication, safety, automated and probative use of the
e-Signature.
[1] Extract from ‘A pragmatic
approach to stimulate economic growth and trustworthiness of ICT’,
article written by Arthur Leitjens on 14th April 2014 and published
on the official TDL Blog. Can be
consulted on : http://tdloffice.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/trust-in-digital-life-a-pragmatic-approach-to-stimulate-economic-growth-and-trustworthiness/
[2] For more details on concept of
sprints, please visit the following page: