Data Space Adoption Forum
Accelerating data space value and scale
Promoting practical, low‑cost, and seamless onboarding solutions that enable SMEs, data space operators, and service providers to participate in trusted data sharing.
Regulations such as the EU Data Act, Digital Product Passport, and CSRD require large‑scale data sharing by 2027–2029.
Yet today, an estimated 95% of SMEs are effectively excluded from data spaces due to cost, complexity, skills gaps, and slow onboarding processes.
The Data Space Adoption Forum addresses the core bottleneck: Scaling participation beyond pilots to thousands of companies.
The Data Space Adoption Forum (DSAF) champions practical, market‑ready services that help data space initiatives achieve real adoption. It serves as the ongoing convening platform for the ecosystem, helping the community address the broader barriers to scalable adoption over time.
Backed by IDSA, Gaia‑X, CISPE, and leading industry and cloud players, DSAF brings together business and technical expertise to accelerate trusted data sharing through concrete deployments and use cases.
Our ambition:
- 10,000+ companies onboarded within 18 months to various data spaces
- Rapid scaling towards global reach
The missing piece: scalable onboarding
Data spaces are only as valuable as their contributors.
Today’s barriers include:
- High technical complexity
- Costly, white‑glove onboarding models
- Long development cycles
- Limited SME trust and confidence
These constraints make distribution and scale virtually impossible.
Simple, low-cost data space onboarding
The Data Space Adoption Forum promotes plug‑and‑play onboarding and compliance services that can be distributed via cloud and managed service providers.
By leveraging:
- Federated, distributed cloud infrastructures
- Shared, multi‑tenant Connector‑as‑a‑Service (CaaS)
- Existing CSP and MSP customer relationships
…data space participation can finally reach the “last mile”: SMEs.
For SMEs
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Fast, affordable onboarding into data spaces
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Alignment with supplier, RFP, and governance requirements
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Compliance with EU regulations and data sovereignty principles
For data space authorities
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Cost‑effective scalability and SME reach
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Distribution through trusted service providers
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Easier compliance with current and future regulations
For service providers
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New value‑added services for existing customers
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A concrete entry point into data spaces
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Scale through aggregation and federation
Get involved
The Data Spaces Adoption Forum is looking to partner with:
- Data space operators
- Cloud service providers
- Managed service providers
Interested in testing, deploying, or scaling these solutions?
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