SmartKeepers: A Decentralized, Secure, and Flexible Social Platform for Coworkers
Coworking (style of work that involves a shared working environment and networking) has emerged as an attractive model for organizations. It relies on a highly dynamic collaboration among different partners. Traditional centralized social platforms lack f
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SmartKeepers, Saint-Etienne, France {romain.blin,charline.berthot}@univ-st-etienne.fr 2 CNRS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France {julien.subercaze,christophe.gravier,frederique.laforest, antoine.boutet}@smartkeepers.com
Abstract. Coworking (style of work that involves a shared working environment and networking) has emerged as an attractive model for organizations. It relies on a highly dynamic collaboration among different partners. Traditional centralized social platforms lack fundamental requirements for such a collaboration that are the management of the dynamic topology of such professional networks, privacy, data exchanges and ownership. In this paper, we present SmartKeepers, a decentralized and secure environment for coworking activities. Each user physically owns his node that he plugs in and out as he moves from one collaborative space to another. The system supports a large variety of network topologies and is fully interoperable with W3C compliant solutions. We showcase the cogency of the Semantic Web for building decentralized and secure services while keeping every user at the core of the data ownership process.
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Introduction
Coworking has emerged as an attractive model for organizations [4]. The rise of coworking spaces in the past decade has brought new challenges for adapted collaborative social platforms. Coworking spaces offer support for remote working, freelance and entrepreneurial activities. Coworkers share physical resources such as desks, Internet accesses, printers, conference rooms or kitchen, to name a few. The dynamic and collaborative nature of coworking pushes freelancers, entrepreneurs and independent contractors to collaborate and start new projects. As a consequence, individuals might belong to several projects or organizations such as bootstrapping a startup with a few partners and managing a freelance activity at the same time. The same individuals may integrate two other collaborative projects several weeks later. To follow this dynamics, digital assets management requires flexibility, fine-grained control and a high level of security. Traditional enterprise social network services such as Yammer1 are originally designed to manage large companies. They are therefore not adapted for the 1
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paradigm shift introduced by coworking [5]. Moreover, using well known social networks or a myriad of different public solutions for a business activity most likely represents a risky solution in case of a leak of privacy [1]. The usage of such solutions can also be prohibited in case of confidential documents which must not be disseminated outside the working group. In the last few years, decentralization has become an appealing solution to address the challenges of privacy and data ownership [2,3,6]. In this demonstration we present
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