The government’s draft on the ‘India Data Accessibility and Use Policy’ is a move aimed to ensure more effective data-based governance paradigms for better and more broad-based governance. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)’s draft policy proposes a framework for government-to-government data sharing and moots that all data for every government department or its organisation shall be open and sharable by default, with certain riders. It also proposes that Minimally processed data sets shall be made available at no cost to promote innovation and R&D. For restricted access data sharing as per the licensing model adopted, pricing of data sets will be decided by the owner/government department or agency and must be notified in a transparent manner. The policy aims to radically transform India’s ability to harness public sector data for catalysing large scale social transformation. Any data sharing shall happen within the legal framework of India, its national policies and legislation as well as the recognized international guidelines. India Data Office (IDO) shall be set up for streamlining and consolidating data access and sharing of public data repositories across the government and other stakeholders and to coordinate with Chief Data Officers of ministries/departments. An indicative Framework for identifying High-Value Datasets (HVDs) will be notified by proposed India Data Council.

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