India Data Management Office | Non-personal data regulator after consultations: MoS IT | Business News,The Indian Express

In May, the ministry had released the draft National Data Governance Framework Policy, which proposed to harness non-personal data available with the government by start-ups of the country.

In May, the ministry had released the draft National Data Governance Framework Policy, which proposed to harness non-personal data available with the government by start-ups of the country. The draft proposed the creation of an India Data Management Office (IDMO), which would manage and set standards for the flow of such data, and act as the sector’s regulator. In its most basic form, non-personal data is any set of data which does not contain personally identifiable information.

Framing a suitable legislation on handling collection and usage of non-personal data has been facing obstacles for some time now, amid concerns over what can be considered non-personal data or how it might be used by private entities.

“We will not decide the design and composition of the IDMO in this ministry alone. We will have a series of roundtables and public consultations of what that institution should be like. We will get consumer groups, innovators, technology experts, representatives from Big Tech companies, government ministries and agencies in a room and discuss how the IDMO should be like,” Chandrasekhar said during an exclusive interaction with this paper. “The institution building will be done through consultation.”

The data governance framework policy, while having laid out the responsibilities of the IDMO, was unclear about its composition. Chandrasekhar’s comments provide the first indications of how the IDMO could potentially be formed.

Once finalised, the IDMO is set to play a key role in dictating how start-ups could gain access to non-personal data housed with the government. The body will be incharge of designing and managing the ‘India Datasets’ platform, which will process requests and provide Indian researchers and start-ups access to the non-personal datasets.

https://indianexpress.com/article/business/india-data-management-office-non-personal-data-regulator-after-consultations-mos-it-8176909/


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