Nevermined's vision is to create a global and decentralized data economy in which data and information exchange is open, secure, and compliant with minimal overhead. To that end, Nevermined provides the building blocks to create open ecosystems around digital assets instead of creating closed platforms around users. In contrast, the current app-centric architecture puts the application at the center and sends data via APIs to compute results within the app. For the first time, Nevermined's approach enables collaborative use cases that are platform agnostic, fully owned by the participants, and thus flexible in their setups, such as collaborative computing or federated learning.