About Dawex

While the production and consumption of goods and services has been taking place since the earliest days of civilization, the world economy began to grow in earnest with the formation of business exchanges. Thousands of years ago, the idea of a Commodity Exchange was formed, followed by the creation of Stock Exchanges in the 14^th Century. Continued global innovation has created a third economic exchange pillar and it's making history right now: Data Exchange.

In today’s economy, data has become a product of unlimited potential, with its own value, and a source of new revenue streams. The circulation of data has never been so crucial to address the world’s most pressing challenges. To facilitate global data exchange and deliver maximum value to stakeholders, Dawex is leading the way with cutting-edge data exchange technology.

Fabrice Tocco and Laurent Lafaye bring 20+ years of experience working for and developing data-focused companies. In 2015, they recognized the need for a structured marketplace for global data exchange regardless of industry or geographies. Both experts in platform technology, data exchange business, new digital economy challenges, and in local and global data regulations, they founded Dawex.

In 2017, Dawex launched the Dawex Global Data Marketplace for organizations around the globe, from all industries, to exchange, acquire, distribute and monetize data in a traceable, trusted and secure environment. A year later, Dawex brought the Data Exchange Platform to market, a data exchange solution for organizations to orchestrate data circulation by sourcing, exchanging and commercializing data with their ecosystem.

Licensed to organizations in a white-labelled mode, the platform supports multiple data exchange use cases, including internal data exchange, data sourcing, free data sharing, data monetization and data space orchestration between multiple third-parties.

Today multiple organizations in 20+ industries worldwide rely on Dawex for its data exchange technology and expertise to foster innovation, offer new products and services, optimize business efficiency and productivity, meet decarbonation objectives, generate new revenue streams and increase company’s value as a whole.

In March 2020, Dawex launched the COVID-19 Data Exchange, a pro bono initiative aiming at facilitating the access and exchange of non-personal data between public and private organizations to curb the virus’ propagation and limit its economic impact.

Pioneering the data economy

Major research firms are recognizing Dawex as the leading data exchange, data sharing, data hub and data marketplace solution provider.

In 2020, Dawex was awarded “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum for its leadership, innovation and impact on the data economy. Participating in a 2-year program, Dawex is contributing to the Data Policy working group leading the Forum’s approach to data policy and data governance with the objective to bring cutting-edge insights and novel perspectives to world-critical discussions, policymakers and private sector leaders and help define the global agenda on key issues. Dawex is also a member of the Global Future Council on Data Policy, convening 30 of the most knowledgeable and thought leaders on data. Most recently, Dawex was invited to join the AI Governance Alliance at the World Economic Forum, to contribute to the works on how to create trust in Artificial Intelligence thanks to Data Exchange technology. Furthermore, in September 2023, the United Nations called for Dawex expertise and invited Dawex to join the data expert group of the UNEP, United Nation Environment Program.

Dawex is also regularly consulted and engaged in projects at European and Institutional level on topics related to the creation of data spaces and data ecosystems around data exchange platforms, Corporate Data Hubs, Industry Data Exchanges, Data Marketplaces, data sharing or data trading. As a recognized expert, Dawex spoke at the 2022 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos about strengthening trust in public-private data exchanges.

Fostering data spaces

Dawex continues spreading the words on the importance of creating data spaces and ecosystems around data exchange platforms solutions. Regularly invited to speak with European & international institutions and organizations, Dawex engages on how to address the world's economic, health, societal and environmental most pressing issues, and the challenges of data circulation, from data regulations to trading to developing data hubs.

Transitioning from the data economy to the economy led by data, data ecosystems and data spaces have become a fundamental component of business competitiveness and economic sovereignty. Organizations that implement and master the circulation of data create a competitive advantage within their ecosystem and beyond.

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