It is led by Treelogic SL and partially funded by the European Union 7th Framework Programme for information and communication technology research.
DAPHNE is an acronym for ‘DAta-as-a-service Platform for Healthy lifestyle and preventive mediciNE’ with the objective to develop and test methods for utilising personal activity and fitness information.
[1] According to a 2016 article in Procedia Computer Science, the DAPHNE platform and project was developed in response to "growing concerns about obesity".
[1]: 349 DAPHNE purpose was to develop a digital ecosystem using information and communications technology (ITC) through software such as HealthTracker, to connect patients and their physicians remotely.
The project aims to develop data analysis platforms for collecting, analysing and delivering information on physical fitness and behaviour.