Centre Issues Draft Norms To Mobilise Non-Personal Citizen Data
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The proposed policy will be applicable to all government departments and entities.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has issued a draft National Data Governance Framework to mobilise the non-personal data of citizens for use by both public and private entities to improve services. The draft policy proposes the launch of a non-personal data based India datasets program and addresses the methods and rules to ensure that non-personal and anonymised data from both government and private entities are safely accessible by the research and innovation ecosystem.
Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the National Data Governance Framework is of interest to artificial intelligence (AI) startups, AI research entities, and government departments.
"Its imp piece of policy framework thats being devlopd to catalyze #India's $1 Trillion #DigitalEconomy," he tweeted.
Asking stakeholders to comment on the draft framework, the minister said the National Data Governance Framework will also accelerate digital government and digitisation of government with common standards, rules, and guidelines for data storage and management across all departments.
