WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?
In support of the trend towards ever more complex cross-sector, supply chain collaboration, a vision and ambition is aimed at an interoperable, multi-tenant (and trusted) data sharing infrastructure. The traditionally siloed application- and sector specific data exchange infrastructures will have to evolve towards a more interconnected (federated) infrastructure consisting of an ecosystem of separate, interoperable and collaborating data exchanges. The realization of this vision of the ecosystem is currently happening through various national and international initiatives developing the required frameworks and technology. Proponents of this vision and ambition are for example:
The Netherlands Organization for applied scientific research (TNO) is an active player in these initiatives and is formally the Dutch Regional hub for the IDS Association.
In the ecosystem, individual data exchanges will have their own users/organizations and will serve its own local application domain or community. Through their interoperability however, the interconnected data exchanges can jointly serve the more global society of diverse groups of users/organizations across individual domains and communities, thereby enabling data sharing between previously distinct organizations. The main drivers for this architecture are enabling data sovereignty, secure transactions and providing connectivity among enterprises.
Organizations are becoming ever more aware that data is a real valuable asset in the emerging data economy and should be handled by the organizations as such. Therefore, in the transition towards the realization of the vision of the data sharing ecosystem as shown in the figure, data sovereignty is the key prerequisite sine qua non a data provider may not be prepared to share its potentially sensitive data. Data sovereignty encompasses the data providers being in control over the terms of use under which he shares his data.
Within the international IDS community, the topic of data sovereignty is a key focal point and architectures for defining and enforcing data sovereignty are being developed and tested. This topic of data sovereignty in the IDS architecture is the focal point of this MsC research assignment. Examples of research questions to be addressed are:
- What data sovereignty technologies can potentially be used within the overarching IDS reference architecture?
- What are the pros and cons of these various data sovereignty technologies within the context of the IDS initiative?
- How is interoperability to be realized between these various data sovereignty technologies?
- Develop IDS Data Sovereignty Proof-of-Concept environment at TNO.
These research topics will result in a combination of theoretical and practical activities to be part of this challenging and innovative assignment.
WHAT DO WE REQUIRE OF YOU?
You are an ambitious master student with both scientific and practical skills (designing architectures, developing the PoC and presenting solutions). You strive for an excellent thesis result and you are at least available for 6 months of (fulltime) work at the TNO premises. You have a background in Computing Science and a special interest in Software Engineering. You are pro-active and independent, at the same time a good team player.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT OF YOUR WORK SITUATION?
TNO is an independent research organisation whose expertise and research make an important contribution to the competitiveness of companies and organisations, to the economy and to the quality of society as a whole. Innovation with purpose is what TNO stands for. With 3000 people we develop knowledge not for its own sake but for practical application. To create new products that make life more pleasant and valuable and help companies innovate. To find creative answers to the questions posed by society. We work for a variety of customers: governments, the SME sector, large companies, service providers and non-governmental organisations. Working together on new knowledge, better products and clear recommendations for policy and processes. In everything we do, impact is the key. Our product and process innovations and recommendations are only worth something if our customers can use them to boost their competitiveness.
WHAT CAN TNO OFFER YOU?
You want to work on the precursor of your career, an internship provides you with the opportunity to take a good look at your prospective future employer. TNO also goes a step further. It’s not just looking that interests us, you and your knowledge are essential to our innovation. That’s why we attach a great deal of value to your personal and professional development. You will, of course, be properly supervised during your internship, and be given the scope for you to exceed yourself and your expectations. We also provide suitable compensation for internships.
We offer a challenging internship assignment, executed in a stimulating environment with good supervision, hopefully resulting in a publication. In addition, you can make use of our wide range of expertise and develop your own scientific and practical skills.
HAS THIS VACANCY SPARKED YOUR INTEREST?
Then please feel free to apply on this vacancy! For further questions don’t hesitate to contact us.
Due to Covid-19 and the consequent uncertainties and restrictions, students who are not residing in the Netherlands may currently not be able to start an internship or graduation project at TNO.
Contact: Harrie Bastiaansen
Phone number: +31 (0)6-512 95527