The Spatial Web Foundation
The Spatial Web Foundation (SWF) is a community of developers, creators, scientists, and innovators with a shared mission to enable a hyper-connected, contextually aware, ethically-aligned network of humans, machines, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Our Foundational Principles
Piecemeal descriptions and industry-centric narratives do not provide the holistic vantage point from which we must consider how best to make the critically important decisions regarding matters of Trust, Interoperability, Privacy, and Security (TIPS™) in an age where powerful computing will literally surround us.
Spatiality
Digital content isn’t only a single blob of data but is dimensionalized and inherently spatialized, making location the fundamental representation rather than strings.
Ownership
Users can own their data and digital property and choose with whom they share this data. Moreover, they retain control of it when they leave a given service provider.
Security
Secure data collection, transmission, and storage enables interactions and transactions with virtual and physical assets between any user within and across any space—physical or virtual.
Privacy
Individual control, trust, and security utilizing cryptographically-secured and decentrally-stored digital identity enables “trustlessly” complete interactions and transactions with anonymity and auditability. Previously the exchange of personal data and layers of verification were required.
Trust
Trust is based on reliable real-time validation of all users, assets, and spaces and their interactions with certifiable and verifiable records that validate various proofs of ownership, activity, traceability, and rights.
Interoperability
Multi-user interoperability provides searchability, viewability, interaction, transaction, and transportation of any asset or user within or across any spaces. Seamless user navigation and asset transfer is enabled within and between spaces across devices, operating systems, and locations.
The Spatial Web Foundation Team:
Gabriel René • Executive Director / Founder
Dan Mapes • Managing Director / Founder
Bastiaan den Braber • Director of Operations
George Percivall • Distinguished Engineering Fellow
Dan Richardson • Director of Market Analysis
Dr. Sarah Grace Manski • Senior Ethics Advisor
