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FEATURED | December, 2023

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

By Sushmitha Viswanathan

In this piece, we will dive into our search strategy for selecting the candidates for our first cohort. There were two stages in this part of our project, first, designing the search strategy and second, deploying it.

Blogs


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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