Dr Fahamame Emamjome1
1Australian Access Federation (AAF), Brisbane, Australia, 2Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Brisbane, Australia
Biography:
Dr Fahame Emamjome is an eResearch Analyst at the Australian Access Federation (AAF), where she works with the Trust and Identity team to co-design a national approach to identity and access management for Australia’s research sector. She brings extensive experience in data governance, digital infrastructure, and business analysis, with a strong focus on enabling secure and seamless access to research services. Fahame is passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to support collaboration, privacy, and trust in research environments.
Abstract:
Establishing trust and enabling collaboration are core goals of both European and global data spaces. However, operational guidance on trust and identity is often underdeveloped in current dataspace frameworks.
To address this gap, the Australian Access Federation (AAF) and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), are partnering on an incubator as part of the development of an Australian National Trust and Identity (T&I) Framework for National Research Infrastructures (NRI) funded by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
This incubator investigates how existing dataspace governance and implementation guidelines align with the Framework, with the aim of demonstrating how it can support essential dataspace functions—such as participant onboarding, authentication, and access governance.
The initial focus is on mapping the Sitra rulebook—a widely referenced governance model developed by the Finnish Innovation Fund—to the components of T&I Framework. This mapping evaluates how it addresses specific implementation challenges outlined in Sitra’s policy checklists, using real-world Australian use cases for grounding. Where needed, the analysis also incorporates elements from international dataspace reference architectures to support broader applicability.
This work contributes to the development of an Australian dataspace rulebook by identifying the alignments and gaps between the Sitra rulebook and the established, interoperable T&I Framework for Australians NRIs.
By bridging high-level governance models with operational trust and identity guidelines and policies, this work advances the creation of secure, scalable, and collaborative data spaces. It offers actionable insights for policy makers, system architects, and implementers seeking to operationalise trust in cross-institutional data sharing environments.