In the next 120 days, a steering committee comprised of several members of the B2G data sharing expert group and supported by the GovLab will seek to scope (and subsequently implement) the contours, needs, feasibility and design features of a data stewards network.
Among the members there are the following: Stefaan Verhulst (the GovLab), who will act as coordinator of the steering committee, Nuria Oliver (Vodafone Institute), Richard Benjamins (Telefónica), Ioana Stoenescu (Roche), Helena Koning (Mastercard), Virpi Stenman (Finnish forest centre), Linda Austere (Finance Latvia Association), Juan Murillo Arias (BBVA), Dimitris Zissis (MarineTraffic) and Milan Petkovic (Phillips).
The GovLab will seek to hold one or more B2G data stewards camps or workshops to further the design features and prototype possible organisational and governance structures. Furthermore, the GovLab will seek additional funding and partners to subsequently implement the data stewards network according to the scoping exercise.
Among the areas that will be considered further are the following.
- Need and incentives: what are or could be the incentives of data stewards/corporations to join the network?
- Metrics: what would success look like? Organisationally? Societal impact? Market shaping impact? Raising the bar?
- Governance: What should the governance structure look like for the network? What can we learn from other models?
- Organisation: How to structure the network? Where to locate it (in existing associations or a new organisation?) What innovative models of organisations would work here?
- Sustainability and funding model: How to ensure long-term sustainability? What should be the funding model?
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