Introducing CrossCloud: A project to get your data out of silos

Today we are happy to announce a Prototype Fund grant to the Crosscloud
Project, an experimental effort led by Tim Berners-Lee and Sandro Hawke at
W3C/MIT. Crosscloud aims to give individuals control of their own data. It
consists of a set of protocols and tools that allows providers to give
individuals control of their data, choose who can access it and move it to
other systems as needed. Building on standard Semantic Web and Linked Data
Technologies, it allows people to communicate across boundaries.

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