Human Colossus Foundation

The Human Colossus Foundation is a Swiss-based non-profit organization established in 2020 that develops open standards and governance frameworks for data-centric digital infrastructure. The foundation's core initiative is the Dynamic Data Economy (DDE), an architecture designed to enable data sharing and management across distributed ecosystems while preserving data integrity and privacy.

The foundation maintains several key technical specifications and protocols:

• Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) - A framework for data capture and exchange that uses:

  • Self-Addressing IDentifiers (SAID) for content integrity
  • Cryptographically-linked overlay objects for metadata and presentation
  • Support for internationalization and sensitive data handling

• Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) - A protocol for:

  • Decentralized key management
  • Self-certifying identifiers
  • Cryptographic verification of digital content
  • Implementation of the did:r method

The foundation has received multiple rounds of government and private funding to develop these technologies. It actively participates in standards development through organizations like the Trust over IP Foundation and maintains open source implementations through the THCLab GitHub organization. The foundation's work aligns with European data strategy initiatives and focuses on enabling data sovereignty while preserving interoperability across jurisdictions.