We are happy to announce that prof. dr. Ruben Verborgh, co-inventor of the Solid specification, joins Digita’s Advisory Board.

Ruben is a professor of Semantic Web technology at Ghent University – imec and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information Group at MIT. He co-invented Social Linked Data (Solid) together with Tim Berners-Lee, has co-authored two books on Linked Data, and contributed to more than 250 publications for international conferences and journals on Web-related topics.

“I am excited to join Digita’s Advisory Board” says professor Verborgh. “I believe that this company has the right vision and resources to accelerate the adoption of a personal data web.”