The government has proposed to set up an India data management office (IDMO). The set up will be responsible for framing, managing, reviewing and revising the National Data Governance Framework Policy.
To this end, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will set up the IDMO under the Digital India Corporation (DIC). According to the draft National Data Governance Framework released recently, the IDMO will also frame data, dataset and metadata rules in consultation with the respective ministries and state governments. MeitY has sought public comments on the draft by June 11, 2022.
As per the draft of the data governance framework, the IDMO will design and manage the India datasets platform which will in turn handle the requests of Indian researchers and startups which require access to non-personal or anonymised datasets.
The draft has also proposed that all ministries and their respective departments have a separate Data Management Unit (DMU) headed by a chief data officer. The DMU will work closely with IDMO to implement the data governance framework policy. The IDMO will develop and release a comprehensive and evolving set of standards for data storage, retention and management. It will also formulate disclosure norms for data collected, stored, shared and accessed over a certain threshold as well as define the principles of fair and ethical use of data shared beyond the government ecosystem, as per the draft.
