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Data Stewards Network

How can the potential value of privately held data be unlocked and used for public good?

Background

Increasingly, the private sector is collaborating with the public sector and researchers on ways to use private-sector data and analytical expertise for public good. With these new practices of data collaborations come the need to reimagine roles and responsibilities to steer the process of using private data, and the insights it can generate, to address some of society’s biggest questions and challenges. Today, establishing and sustaining these new collaborative and accountable approaches requires significant and time-consuming effort and investment of resources for both data holders on the supply side, and institutions that represent the demand.

Partners

Adapt

Description

By establishing Data Stewardship as a function, recognized within the private sector as a valued responsibility, the practice of Data Collaboratives can become more predictable, scaleable, sustainable and de-risked. The GovLab is launching a first-of-its-kind Data Stewards Network, bringing together responsible data leaders from across corporations to share knowledge and jointly advance a new, more professionalized approach for data collaboration. Together with BrightFront Group and Adapt, we are: