Call for Inputs: MEITY's Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 2022

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Call for Inputs: MEITY's Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 2022

Varun Sen Bahl

@varunsenbahl1

February 25, 2022

Public Policy

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has recently issued a draft “India Data Accessibility and Use Policy”. A brief background note accompanies the policy.

This policy aims at establishing a governance framework for the sharing of public sector data. As per the background note, the intent is to build on top of existing efforts to ensure openness of public sector data and to provide open data portals and platforms (such as the Open Government Data Platform).

As per the background note, this policy is aimed at addressing various bottlenecks including:

The lack of any structured mechanism for monitoring data sharing efforts by government bodies
The absence of comprehensive and updated data inventories that results in poor planning, duplication of efforts and sub-optimal inter-government data sharing
The absence of any data sharing toolkit to help government departments assess and manage risks associated with sharing public sector datasets
The lack of any framework and classification criteria for identifying high-value datasets created by government bodies
The lack of consistent standards for meta-data and data quality, anonymization tools, data licensing and valuation frameworks
The limited scope for citizen engagement and data stewardship

The policy will be applicable to all data and information created by the Government of India or by agencies authorised by various institutions of the Government of India. State Governments will be free to adopt its provisions and any applicable protocols. A few key components of the policy include:

The setting up of an institutional framework by MEITY called the Indian Data Office for policy and monitoring and an Indian Data Council for standard setting
The objective for all data created by Govt. entities to be open and shareable by default.
The notification of a framework for identifying “high-value datasets” that shall be decided upon by the Indian Data Council
Indicative outlines of various standards, protocols and toolkits that shall be developed under the policy, such as on anonymisation, retention, quality, pricing and licensing, etc.

MEITY has sought suggestions on the draft policy and how it can institutionalise a data sharing framework for the next decade. The last date for providing suggestions to MEITY is March 18^th, 2022.

We shall be preparing a response on this draft Policy. In this regard, we request you to kindly share your detailed inputs with suitable justifications to us by or before March 11^th, 2022. Please share your inputs to varun@nasscom.in; apurva@nasscom.in and jayakumar@nasscom.in.

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Varun Sen Bahl

Manager - Public Policy

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