A Community will evolve only when a people control their own communications. - Franz Fanon

Welcome to Project Danube.

This is an open-source project offering software for identity and personal data services on the Internet. The core of this project is an XDI-based Personal Data Store - a semantic database for your personal data, which always remains under your control. Applications on top of this database include the Federated Social Web, the selective sharing of personal data with organizations, and experimental peer-to-peer communication architectures. The efforts of this project reflect ongoing discourse about political and social questions about anonymity vs. veronymity, centralization vs. decentralization, and the appropriate handling of personal data online.

For the XDI² (XDI-Squared) library, see here. Or try the XDI web tools here.

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    • FreedomBox / Project Danube at the Internet Identity Workshop
      To the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) #14, I brought 4 Guruplug computers (by GlobalScale Technologies) to conduct a demonstration of how a FreedomBox could fit into the goals of some... […]
    • FreedomBox / Project Danube at the European Identity Conference
      I was invited to speak at the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich, at a workshop about “Life Management Platforms” together with Drummond Reed of Connect.Me and Phil Windley of... […]
    • Personal Data Journal Issue 3
      Issue 3 of the Personal Data Journal is out. In this issue, I wrote the feature article about “Personal Data in Decentralized Network Architectures” In the article I give a... […]
    • Guruplugs and B.A.T.M.A.N.
      In preparation for a demo I am planning to put together to demonstrate the potential of the FreedomBox, I installed the B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh networking protocol on 4 Guruplug computers. See... […]
    • Oppression and Liberation with Social Networks
      I wrote two articles and some other material about the role of social networking services in revolutionary movements such as those of the Arab Spring. While I have not been... […]
    • WSIS+10 Open Consultation Process
      My contribution to the WSIS+10 Open Consultation Process: Abstract: UNESCO’s concept of a Culture of Peace remains one of the most promising strategies to work toward the values of the... […]
    • A Federated Social Web for Peace
      My contribution to the Federated Social Web Summit in Berlin: Abstract: Having always been closely linked to the ideal of peace, the concept of civil society has a long history... […]
    • Greetings to IIW #12
      Unfortunately this time I cannot come to the awesome Internet Identity Workshop open space conference. But my heart and mind and professional spirit are which user-centric identity, the personal data... […]
    • Fascinating Networks
      What do Diaspora and Al-Qaeda have in common? A fascination with network structures is on the rise across a wide range of academic disciplines. What are the strengths and weaknesses... […]
    • Open Data and Open Government in Vienna
      For the first time in Austrian history, the city of Vienna (which also counts as one of the nine federal states) will now have a “Red-Green” government, i.e. a coalition... […]