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Semantic Blockchain: Providing Provenance for GDPR Compliance

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Project Description:

This project will produce a solution that will allow data owners throughout EU to have an immutable chain of compliance data for the health informatics domain.

Consensual information about the data, which a data owner gives to a data controller holds extreme importance in the case of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After the application of GDPR, a data controller is bound to record explicit consent from a data owner about the storage and processing of his personal information. Storing this information has its own challenges i.e., proving to the authorities that the data recorded is true and has not changed in a malicious way.

It is also essential to make sure that the final form of data does not cover up any discrepancies that may have happened at the data controller’s or data processor’s end. Confirming the execution of agreed-upon processes is also a challenging task.

Therefore, this will be a novel system that will ensure the provenance of data with the help of blockchain and Semantic Web technologies. The data recorded through this system will be immutable and will ensure complete traceability.

Researchers: Mansoor Ahmed, Markus Helfert

Funding:EU H2020 (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND), SFI – Adapt

Timeframe: 2021-2022

About the Researchers:

Dr Mansoor Ahmed
Director

Professor Markus Helfert

Dr Mansoor Ahmed

Dr Mansoor Ahmed did his M. Sc in Information Management from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria. He was awarded Higher Education Commission (HEC) scholarship for higher studies (PhD) in Austria. In 2009, he completed his PhD degree from TU Wien, Austria.In 2010-2011 he was awarded Senior researcher fellowship scholarship by Indiana University, USA for his Postdoctoral studies. During this period, he worked in Web Science Lab (WSL).  In 2017, he worked as Senior researcher in University College Dublin (UCD).He is member of Editorial Review Board of many International Journals. He is also serving as Associate editor of IEEE Access. Besides this, he has organized number of workshops and also serves as Technical Program Committee member in International reputed conferences. He is also reviewer of good quality journals i.e., Elsevier and Springer. His research interest includes Data Provenance, Blockchain, Semantic Web technologies, Knowledge-based systems, Privacy issues in Health care data, Cloud Computing Security, Information Security and Privacy. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience.

Director

Professor Markus Helfert

Markus Helfert is the Director of IVI and Professor of Digital Service Innovation at Maynooth University. He is also Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centred on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Managem ent. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardisation initiatives. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.

Email:Markus.Helfert@mu.ie