Empowering Citizens With Digital Twins: A Blueprint

Abstract

The exponentially growing amount of digital information and data analysis increase the ability to perceive the holistic situation of people. This paper applies the digital twin paradigm to strengthen a person's ability to utilize information about themselves by creating a digital representation of their situation to support their well-being. More specifically, we propose a blueprint to empower individuals by improving their self-determination regarding their personal data. The blueprint will help service and data providers, both public and private, to develop a common understanding of the role and possibilities of a citizen's controlled personal digital twin of themselves -a Citizen Digital Twin (CDT) -for creating people-centric solutions. The blueprint also provides a rational framework for service development based on Citizen Digital Twins and serves as a basis for strategic guidance of service development. We demonstrate this with a case study of confirmation class students.

Personal Data Gentrification

“…We can find some works in literature that partially address some of these challenges. Technical works, such as Solid [7], Human Microservices [19], Human Data Model [21], Citizen Digital Twin [18] or Paco [36], allow individuals to better control their personal data and to store labels for profiles in a decentralized, linked manner. These technical solutions must be gradually incorporated by the industry to improve the management of personal data.…”