CoE Revised Report on Non-Personal Data (NPD Version 2)

The MEITY-appointed Committee of Experts (CoE) on Non-Personal Data (NPD) has shared their revised report with a call for feedback by January 27th. This report is a revised version based on extensive feedback received by the CoE to the earlier version of the report (v1). more

Overall Overall proposal is looking reasonable and feasible, even though a lot of details have to be worked out. more

There’s much to like in this new report. First among them is the fact that it restricts itself to a narrow goal — of opening up non-personal data for public good purposes. It explicitly stays away from being a general non-personal data governance framework, which would have included direct government access to such data and B2B sharing of data (as was there in the first report). While not explici… more

• Revised report of the committee on NPD Governance Framework (the report), defines high valued datasets (HVD) as those which are beneficial to community and would be shared as a public good, subject to certain guidelines as prescribed by the report. • A data trustee (which is either a government or non-governmental organization) is to identify this subset based on public interest of the communit… more