Mapping Data Governance Legal Frameworks Around the World : Findings from the Global Data Regulation Diagnostic
A robust data governance regulatory environment, encompassing both safeguards that protect the rights of market players and enablers that facilitate use/reuse of data, provide an important foundation for trust in the data economy. This paper presen...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/581331617817680243/Mapping-Data-Governance-Legal-Frameworks-Around-the-World-Findings-from-the-Global-Data-Regulation-Diagnostic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35410 |
| Summary: | A robust data governance regulatory
environment, encompassing both safeguards that protect the
rights of market players and enablers that facilitate
use/reuse of data, provide an important foundation for trust
in the data economy. This paper presents the methodology and
findings from a Global Data Regulation Diagnostic. The
Global Data Regulation diagnostic is a detailed assessment
of laws and regulations on data governance, covering both
safeguards and enablers for data governance across 80
countries ranging from low to high income groups. Diagnostic
results show that countries have put in greater effort in
adopting enabling regulations than regulatory safeguards.
However, the development of both enablers and safeguards
remains at an intermediate stage: only 41 percent of good
practices for safeguards and 47 percent for enablers have
been adopted across countries. The diagnostic identifies
gaps in the regulatory framework across several important
dimensions including safeguards for personal and nonpersonal
data, cross-border data flows and cybersecurity, as well as
enablers for public and private intent data, as well as
e-commerce. While higher income countries are typically more
advanced than their lower income counterparts, significant
gaps nonetheless remain in the regulatory framework for data
across all income groups. |
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