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FEATURED | February, 2025

Unpacking the global movements to strengthen AI ecosystems

By Avani A, Sameer B, Kunal B, Astha K

The emergence of generative AI (GenAI) technologies in the mainstream over the past few years have propelled the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) across the globe.

Whitepaper Series


Leveraging Location & Mobility Data

By Suha Mohamed, Aapti Institute
An ecosystem approach to health data stewardship

By Soujanya Sridharan, Aapti Institute
Empowering communities with data stewardship

By Sarada Mahesh, Aapti Institute
Gaining Real-World Validation of the Digital Fiduciary Model

By Richard S. Whitt, Deeper Edge LLC
Fiduciary relationships and the feasibility of data trusts to address asymmetries in the data economy

By Bilal Mohamed, The Data Economy Lab
Policy pathways and governance principles to enable data stewardship

By Amrita Nanda, The Data Economy Lab
From Subject to Sovereign

By Gilbert Hill
The Case for Data Cooperatives

By Julian Tait, Open Data Manchester

Reports


Impact of the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework on the Indian Agricultural Sector

By Astha Kapoor, Sarada Mahesh and Vinay Narayan
Health data stewardship: Learning from use-cases

By Soujanya S, Siddharth M, Astha K
Understanding Non-Personal Data Sharing: A principle-first approach

By Amrita Nanda and Astha Kapoor
Data Stewardship – A Taxonomy

By Siddharth Manohar, Aditi Ramesh & Astha Kapoor

Policy responses


Southern Alliance for the Global Digital Compact

By The Data Economy Lab
Consent Managers in India’s health data ecosystem: Roundtable brief and policy recommendations

By Soujanya Sridharan
Aapti’s submission to MEITY’s National Data Governance Framework Policy

By The Data Economy Lab
Aapti’s submission to MEITY’s Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy

By The Data Economy Lab
Aapti’s Submission to the NHA’s Consultation Paper on the Unified Health Interface

By The Data Economy Lab
Aapti’s Response to the Consultation Paper on IDEA

By The Data Economy Lab
Examining the contours of consent in the non-personal data governance framework

By Sarada Mahesh
Comment on the Revised Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

By Soujanya Sridharan & Siddharth Manohar
Aapti Submission on the Report of the Committee on Non Personal Data

By Siddharth Manohar
Aapti Submission to the MoHFW & NHA on the NDHM Data Management Policy

By Siddharth Manohar

Papers


Fishing for Sustainability – The promise of equitable data stewardship

By Suha Mohamed & Vinay Narayan, Aapti Institute

Stewarding Data for Safe & Inclusive Cities

By Suha Mohamed
Community data governance and its application for migrant communities in urban India

By Aditi Ramesh
Trust Law, Fiduciaries, and Data Trusts

By Siddharth Manohar
Principles for Revenue Models of Data Stewardship

By Aditi Ramesh & Astha Kapoor
Data Sharing for Public Good: Theoretical Bases and Policy Tools

By Siddharth Manohar

Op-Eds


India Aims to Build a Transformative Digital Health Ecosystem, but the Proposed Health Data Retention Policy Fails to Keep Up With I

By Soujanya Sridharan
Data for revenue: Revisiting the Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy

By Soujanya Sridharan and Vinay Narayan
How the Draft Data Protection Bill Bodes Ill For Social Media Platforms and Users

By Soujanya Sridharan and Shefali Girish
Karnataka’s open data access: At what cost?

By Soujanya Sridharan & Vinay Narayan
Rethinking data monetisation

By Astha Kapoor

Event Readbacks


Data Governance Deep Dives #6

By The Data Economy Lab
Data Governance Deep Dives #5:

By The Data Economy Lab
Data Governance Deep Dives #4: Data Monetisation

By The Data Economy Lab Team
Data Governance Deep Dives #3: Data cooperatives for the energy sector

By The Data Economy Lab Team
Data Governance Deep Dives #1: The cooperative model

By The Data Economy Lab Team
Data Deliberations

By The Data Economy Lab Team

Call for Applications


Aapti Institute – Data2X – Data Co-ops in Action – a network of support

By The Data Economy Lab

Articles


Summary of Room 9 Proceedings

By The Data Economy Lab
What’s Missing From The Consent Manager Framework In The Data Protection Bill, 2022

By The Data Economy Lab
Data co-ops: How cooperative structures can support women’s empowerment

By The Data Economy Lab
Data Stewardship and Justice with Vinay Narayan of Aapti Institute

By The Data Economy Lab
Data Could Be More Equal

By The Data Economy Lab
A tryst with data monetisation

By The Data Economy Lab
Data co-ops: Co-designing data trusts for climate action

By Vinay Narayan, Aapti Institute & Joe Massey, ODI
Understanding Intellectual Property Rights issues around Non-Personal Databases

By Deepa Padmar
Health data sharing being set up to fail by a regulatory mashup: roles of the NDHM, PDPB, consent managers and the NHA

By The Data Economy Lab
Comments on the Revised Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

By Soujanya Sridharan & Siddharth Manohar

Blogs


Data Co-ops in Action: the Search for the First Cohort

By Sushmitha Viswanathan
Data Co-ops in Action: Launching our Support Network

By Sushmitha Viswanathan & Vinay Narayan
Exploring the Potential of Data Stewardship in the Migration Space

By The Data Economy Lab
Situating Civil Society Organisations on the Stewardship Spectrum

By Suha Mohamed, Aapti Institute
State of Data Stewardship

By Shefali Girish, Aapti Institute
Data for well-being: A renewed approach to health data governance

By Soujanya Sridharan
The Data Economy Lab 3.0

By The Data Economy Lab
The Centre needs to re-think its approach to Digital Agriculture in India

By Vinay Narayan
Building the Stewardship Navigator

By The Data Economy Lab
Enabling data sharing for social benefit through data trusts

By The Data Economy Lab
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