With its findings, the international project Data Governance in Emerging Economies to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals contributes to the discussion on how Data Governance can be used to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, especially in emerging economies. Together with researchers from India, the data governance landscape in the Indian healthcare sector is being examined. The report, which has now been published, presents preliminary findings along with questions for defining a research agenda building on the insights from the multistakeholder-workshops organized in Bengaluru in September 2022.
Written in the specific context of SDG 3, the report underscores the role of data governance for good health and well-being in India. A brief introduction to the project is followed by four more sections. It first provides a detailed background on the selection of SDG 3 and India for the study of data governance in growth regions. The second section offers an overview of the existing legal framework for data governance in India. In addition to analyzing open data initiatives, this section maps the judicial and legislative steps towards safeguarding personal data, while highlighting the ongoing efforts to legislate non-personal data sharing. In addition to analyzing open data initiatives, this section outlines the legal and legislative steps taken to protect personal data and highlights the ongoing efforts to legislate the sharing of non-personal data. The findings from the workshop are used in the next section to examine the role of the public sector, private sector and start-ups in determining the scope of data governance in the Indian healthcare sector. The final section summarizes the findings and emphasizes the importance of a data governance framework for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 3 in India. Finally, the researchers pose a series of questions aimed at developing a research agenda to help build a framework for data governance in emerging economies like India.
A result of doctrinal research and participatory discussion with the stakeholders, the report indicates the need for stronger engagement with all the stakeholders for evolving appropriate data governance frameworks – including but not limited to – measures establishing legal rights and obligations of stakeholders. The institutional and technical aspects of data governance are considered an essential complement. More broadly, project deliberations point towards significant gains resulting from a data governance approach, developed in close relation with the SDG framework, to legal research and policy formulation.
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