ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 for the development of cross-border applications. More recently, after an extensive assessment, FIWARE was chosen as the reference platform for the development of the “smart city” program promoted by the Indian government. Engineering is a founder and Chair of the Board of Directors. INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACE ASSOCIATION (IDSA) With this association, business and research take on an active role in defining a reliable architecture for the “data economy”. The members of IDSA include more than 100 organizations of varying sizes (many from the “Fortune 500”) from 18 countries and belonging to a range of production sectors. The primary goal of the association is the creation of an open, standard and vendor- independent solution which allows for “data sovereignty”, or the possibility of controlling and governing the use of Introduzione shared private data. Defined within IDSA, the reference architecture represents the basis of a data marketplace based on the European values of privacy and data security, Our Groupequal opportunities through a federated design and “data sovereignty”, for both the information owner and users. Engineering is a member of the European Board. WATER EUROPE By aiming to boost coordination and collaboration between the various players in the water sector, Water Europe promotes inter-segment collaboration initiatives and contributes to resolving global challenges linked to water. Furthermore, it creates a favorable environment for projects and innovations in this area and proactively increases the importance of the water sector. Engineering is a Standard Member and contributes to the ICT working group. Lastly, the Engineering Group is present as an international expert in the following working groups at global level: ISO/ TC 279 “Innovation Management”, ISO/TC 307 “Blockchain and electronic distributed ledger technologies”, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 “Artificial intelligence”, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 “Internet of things and digital twin” and ISO/IEC JTC 1/AG 2 “Advisory Group on JTC 1 Emerging Technology and Innovation (JETI)”. 1616 Engineering © 17 Engineering © Engineering ©