fairsfair foundation
Tap into the value of cooperation.
Digital platforms were built primarily around the platform itself. They centralise information and protect their operating and business models. That may work for the platform, but it does not give people, organisations and authorities the transparency and cooperation they need.
fairsfair establishes a neutral basis for exchange. With clear rules and a common language, it connects those who use and provide digital services—linking everyday conventions to accountable digital execution.
The shared model
Clear terms for digital cooperation.
Why
To make digital cooperation clear, accountable and independent of central control.
How
By giving every exchange clear rules, roles and accountability.
What
A shared framework for accountable digital exchange.
When
When standalone platforms are no longer enough for a complex reality.
Where
Where information remains under the control of people, businesses and authorities.
Who
The parties remain responsible; their agreement sets the terms, the foundation governs the rules and common language, and the utility company operates the exchange service.
In practice
A different starting point for every participant.
In your life
Your digital convenience increasingly comes with an account, identifiers, apps and a growing trail of activity held by organisations you did not choose. The services work, but you lose sight of where your information goes and what it is used for.
fairsfair ties information to the interaction for which it is used.
A ticket proves a travel right; a payment fulfils an obligation. Going digital is not a general licence to follow you beyond the intended exchange.
In your business
Digitalisation helps you reach customers and partners, but platforms often become the gateway to both. Their terms, technology and control over information increasingly define the limits of your business.
fairsfair creates a common basis for exchange without making a third party’s interest a condition of the underlying relationship.
You focus on your services, customer relationships and operating model, while digital cooperation follows clear and accountable conditions.
In your public task
Public services depend increasingly on information. Yet they often inherit systems in which responsibility, authority and evidence are difficult to distinguish. More information is collected to compensate for less clarity.
fairsfair makes legitimate use clear in the context itself.
Accountability comes from clarity in context, not from retaining everything.
For your digital services
Digital services have been rewarded for centralising information and making themselves indispensable. That creates a sustainable business for one party, but dependence, risk and loss of trust for the others.
fairsfair gives your digital service a published basis for working with others.
Your role is earned through the capability, experience and value you add—not through capturing information or controlling access to relationships.
One model. Clear roles.
You remain in control.
Your agreement sets the terms, rights and obligations of the exchange.
The fairsfair foundation governs the shared model: its clear rules, common language, assessment and public register. It aligns the model across domains and with European data and digital regulation.
The utility company operates the neutral exchange service. fairsfair.io is a Recognised Data Intermediary under the EU Data Governance Act. It supports the exchange without becoming a party to the relationship.
The fairsfair Library
Published work, ready to inspect.
The Initial Body of Work v1.0: published rules, governance and reference material for accountable digital exchange.
Conformance
Recognise reliable cooperation.
Assessment establishes whether an organisation or implementation conforms to the published model. The register makes that current status visible to those who rely on it.
Route 01
Self-assessment
Use the published requirements to assess your own organisation or implementation. Record the scope, evidence and result against the applicable release.
Route 02
Independent testing
Request an independent assessment where assurance requires a separate evaluator. The outcome remains tied to its defined scope, evidence and release.
01
Define
Set the organisation or implementation, the published release and the scope that is being assessed.
02
Assess
Test the relevant requirements, record the evidence and state the result with its limitations.
03
Recognise
Where registration is requested and accepted, publish the current conformance status for others to verify.
Conformance register
A conformance claim is useful only when its basis and status remain clear.
Each entry identifies the organisation or implementation, the applicable release, assessed scope, assessment route, effective period and current status. A record may be active, suspended, withdrawn, expired or reinstated as the circumstances require.
Register record — illustrative structure
Subject
Organisation or implementation
Scope
Defined conformance scope
Release
Published IBoW release
Route
Self / independent
Status
Current status
Effective period
Start and review date
Contact
In touch with the foundation.
For questions about the shared model, its published works, conformance or the foundation, write to the foundation directly.
Custodianship and ownership
The Initial Body of Work is owned by FRCB B.V. and maintained under the custodianship of Stichting borging fairsfair.
Legal name
Stichting borging fairsfair
fairsfair foundation
Registration
CoC 96712775
VAT
NL867727226B01
Address
Sterkenburgerlaan 63
3941 BC Doorn
The Netherlands
Cooperation works better when its terms remain clear.
fairsfair makes digital exchange accountable without turning the underlying relationship into somebody else’s business model.