Users, services and data:
an introduction to Solid

Centralisation has negative consequences
for innovation and choice.

• Which integrations do we build?
  • Log in with Facebook everywhere?
• Developers depend on central platforms
  for data and identity.
  • …or they have to start such a platform.
• People have lost control over their data
  and can't navigate between services.

Users decide where they
store each piece of the data.

Users give services access
to specific parts of their data.

Separating data from services
allows permissionless innovation.

Services with decentralized data
require a different approach.

Demo time!

1. Identity
2. Storage
3. Access Control
4. Interopability
5. Messaging

All pods adhere to the Solid spec.

Services don't integrate bilaterally
but via their users.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web