We are experiencing an era of digital transformation where Europe is paving the way towards a fair, open, inclusive and people-centric digital economy based on European values. However, there are still many issues on the way ranging from technical aspects (e.g. ensuring data privacy in data sharing processes), to social factors (e.g. reluctancy to unlock data silos, lack or trust on the technology or social distrust for Artificial Intelligence), to the critical situation in relation to the effects of climate change or the high energy prices due to the instability several key areas of the world.
In this context, TANGO aims at establishing a stronger data sharing platform in a citizen-centric, secure and trustworthy manner, by developing innovative solutions while addressing environmental degradation and climate change challenges. The main objectives of TANGO are the following:
1. Design and develop a holistic, flexible and open framework for fair, responsible and green data management, sharing and storage while maintaining data ownership based on energy-efficient Smart Contracts, Artificial Intelligence, Self-Sovereign Identity, Self-Encryption and Continuous Behavioural Authentication.
2. Provide a secure, trusted and audible data management, storage and sharing environment by developing advanced, energy-efficient Blockchain services and specifying novel security and privacy-preserving protocols for guaranteeing the ownership of the data throughout the whole data lifecycle.
3. Design and implement distributed trust management mechanisms that leverage Self-Sovereign Identity for identity management, innovative user and device onboarding approaches, user and device continuous behavioural authentication mechanisms, and hardening of side-channel attacks, providing highly secure and user-friendly access control.
4. Exploit the power of Artificial Intelligence in order to produce accurate decision making targeting the data, security and infrastructure management towards “green” data operations.
5. To validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution in six (6) diverse use cases with the active engagement and training of several different stakeholders’ groups accomplishing at the end of the project a TRL-6 level for the entire TANGO platform.
6. Ensure wide communication and scientific dissemination of the innovative TANGO results to the research, academic, and international community, the efficient exploitation and business planning of the TANGO concepts and tools to various domains, with the aim of identifying end users and potential customers, as well as the contribution of specific project results to relevant standardisation bodies.
In summary, TANGO’s value proposition is providing a trustworthy data management and sharing platform deployed in federated, distributed, multi-cloud environments ensuring data sovereignty, governance and provenance for public/private organisations.
