Most of the data today belong to just a handful of companies. Personal documents, photographs, videos, things that we put online in general, contain lots of sensitive information. Information that we would rather prefer to stay private. Very often the same companies that provide more or less "complimentary" storage space for our disposal, also help us managing our whole digital existence. The combination of the data and the identity information is a powerful combination which empowers well-established business models where the user's data or the user itself become a product. Allowing sensitive data to be kept by well-known service providers makes it easier than ever for illegal institutions, but also the state, to gain insights into the data that they have no rights to access.

Our sensitive personal data are kept by the state, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and corporations. We do not have control over these data and our access to them is limited. Every institution storing the data has not only its own policies, but also uses proprietary technologies to access the data. These data silos make interoperability hard and give institutions almost complete freedom to use the data without consent of the user.

Society is becoming increasingly more aware of the importance of protecting the digital content and it is becoming clear that the current centralized model has came to an end. The future of the Internet is distributed. Unsupervised, unmoderated access, affordable, unlimited storage, security and privacy built-in are the most important aspects of the Internet of the future.

Unfortunately, a global, reliable, decentralized network cannot be built without actual physical nodes, as the opposite of thousands of nodes in centralized cloud data centers. Users need to be re-introduced to the concept of decentralization and learn the advantages of technologies like self-sovereign identity, and content-addressable networks. Only by building an open network of physical nodes we pave our way as a society to the decentralized Internet of the future. Building the decentralized Internet of the future is therefore a community effort, where all participants become the actual owners of the distributed global infrastructure.

To support this community movement, we propose Identity Box: a personal P2P networking device giving you access to the global network of distributed storage, digital identity, and distributed personal apps.

Identity Box is a physical device, but at the same far more than just piece of hardware. Together with the included software and Identity App, Identity Box enables an ecosystem of rich, distributed personal applications. It supports IPFS, Self-Sovereign Identity, and end-to-end encrypted storage. And that's just the beginning.

Join us in building the decentralized Internet of the future!