CIEDA · Center for International Exchanges Digital Alliance

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1. Institutional profile

Full name:Center for International Exchanges Digital Alliance, abbreviated CIEDA; in Chinese it is commonly known as 国际交往中心数字联盟.

Founded:31 May 2024 — the founding document of the CIEDA Sounding Board was signed and took effect by the three co-founders.

Nature of the founding:Initiated by three co-founders — the Norway–China Friendship Association (NCFA), NEX AS and the Tsinghua Alumni Nordic East–West Dialogue (TANEWD) — as an international organisation network with a mission of digital international exchange.

Geography and network:Norway and the Nordic region are its principal founding base; it recruits members worldwide, connecting enterprises, institutions and individuals in the digital field across countries.

2. Purpose (Sustainable Exchange)

According to the founding documents, CIEDA aims to:

• gather global digital resources and build an open, shared and cooperative platform
• drive the innovation and development of digital technology
• strengthen international exchange of information, technology and culture
• promote international cooperation in culture, education and science through digital means
• work with international partners to advance safe, transparent and sustainable digital transformation and AI development

3. Governance structure

CIEDA has a three-tier governance structure — Board of Directors, Secretariat and Sounding Board:

Chain of authorisation and operation:Sounding Board (founding and advice) → proposes the establishment of the Board of Directors → the Board appoints an interim Executive Chair responsible for delivering international business development on the ground.

4. Key people and the chain of authorisation

Key dates

• 2008-08-08NEX AS initiated and registered by Mr Karlsen with the encouragement of Mr Nan Huaijin (Norwegian social enterprise)
• 2024-05-31The three co-founders sign the Sounding Board founding document
• 2024-06-01Electronic signature audit report completed (Adobe Acrobat Sign)
• 2024-06-05Mette S. Husemoen issues the letter appointing Ansen CUI as Interim Executive Chair of the Board

5. Main activities and programme directions

• Host international digital forums, seminars and training courses on a regular basis
• Publish an annual report on the digital economy
• Build a library of digital technologies and projects
• Provide technical support and advisory services to members
• Work actively with international organisations and other digital alliances to meet the challenges of the digital age

Financial mechanism:Funded initially by the Joint Project Development Committee, with voluntary donations from institutions and individuals; support is also sought from government, business and wider society.

6. Vision and programme system

(1) Intellectual origins

• 1969Mr Nan Huaijin founded the East–West Essence Association, arguing that Eastern and Western cultures should “take the essence and discard the dross”, and that spiritual and material civilisation deserve equal weight
• Personnel continuity:This Nan Huaijin line was carried directly on by TANEWD chair Chenglin Will Zhang — Zhang met Nan Huaijin many times, and Nan named his fifth son, Zhang Jiaqi; Nan Huaijin once asked him to complete, through the “East–West Culture Forum”, a convergence of Chinese and Norwegian scientific and industrial civilisation, which is the origin of both CIEDA's Norwegian founders and the name TANEWD
• 1987The Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future sets out the definition of “sustainable development”
• 2021Xi Jinping at COP15: “all things grow through harmony, and are completed through nurture”
• 2024.3The 78th session of the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on AI governance

(2) Leitmotif and flagship programme

CIEDA leitmotif:SUSTAINABLE EXCHANGE — sustainable exchange — not a one-off cultural exchange but a sustainable mechanism.

Flagship programme:“Carbon-Based Guardianship · the Memory Wall (Digital Wall of Memory)” — launched by CIEDA in 2024, built on blockchain (Web3.0), with each “brick” as a carrier of memory and oracle-bone script motifs expressing the spirit of carbon-based civilisation, advocating that humanity guard its cultural heritage together.

(3) Technical base: the NFE ecosystem

NFE (Non-Fungible-Evidence) is how the Web3.0 era gives expression to confirmed relationships between people and things, between people and rights, and between things and rights.

Three-layer architecture:

• Scenario layer:Chinese classics metaverse, Master–Disciple Guarantee, CCIPE, digital health attestation and more
• Capital layer:Franchise Pass, IPE, distributed exchanges
• Tool layer:blockchain, DID, Vital Storage, Zhiyuan Cloud, load balancing and more

The operating body is Zhongchao Jinyin IP Advisory Co., Ltd.

Diplomatic evidence:Using the Great Wall as its motif, it presents inscriptions left by foreign dignitaries who visited between 1988 and 2018 (the King of Norway, the Prime Minister of Romania, European Council President Tusk, Luxembourg Prime Minister Bettel, the First Lady of Argentina and others) — evidence that “a small cultural symbol connects China and the world”.

7. Brand identity and logo design concept

7.1 Mark overview

The CIEDA identity has two parts — the emblem and the wordmark — in the horizontal mark + wordmark structure used by global brands:

• Left emblem:five emerald leaves rising in a spiral, graded from deep emerald (#0E5A3E) to pale sage (#7FA68B)
• Right wordmark:the five letters CIEDA coloured after the Olympic rings — C blue / I yellow / E black / D green / A red
• Unified ground:light warm grey (#F3F4F1), which may be replaced or removed depending on the context of use

7.2 Core design philosophy

7.3 Where three intellectual streams converge visually

The three streams meet on one and the same leaf of the mark: each green leaf = the growth of one lineage = one of the five continents.