Policy & Research   |   Affiliate Project   |   National

Building trusted, interoperable, and privacy-preserving data-sharing technologies that enable secure AI, analytics, and digital public infrastructure for real-world public-good applications.

Overview

A research stream on the policy and economic dimensions of data-sharing at scale, how data value is created and distributed, what governance and market structures make data exchanges sustainable, and how policy can balance innovation with rights, equity, and public trust.

Partners

IISc research groups

Government policy bodies
engaging with CDPG

CDPG’s own project teams

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Objectives

  • Shape forward-looking data policy that balances innovation with rights, equity, and public trust.
  • Study the economics of data exchanges, incentives, pricing, and sustainability models for public data infrastructure.
  • Translate research findings into governance frameworks usable across CDPG's platforms.
  • Support policymakers with evidence-based recommendations on data-sharing regulation.

Key Features

  • Interdisciplinary research spanning data policy, economics, and technology.
  • Direct link to CDPG's deployed platforms, ensuring governance frameworks are grounded in real-world experience.
  • Focus on sustainable, equitable models for public data infrastructure, including accounting/payment-gateway design (as piloted in IUDX).
  • Contribution to national conversations on data protection and digital economy policy.

Use Cases

Informing the governance and access-control design behind IUDX’s accounting mechanisms and data-marketplace foundations.

Research feeding into the design of the Digital Address DPI (DHRUVA) in the context of India’s DPDP Act.

Policy inputs for state-level data exchanges (ADeX, MahaAgX, TGDeX) on data-sharing agreements and sustainability models.

Data / Datasets Available

No dataset catalogue, outputs are policy papers, whitepapers, and governance frameworks referenced by CDPG’s live platforms.

Our Role

CDPG runs this research vertical alongside its platform-building work, feeding policy and economic insight back into the design of its data exchanges.

Impact

Ongoing research programme informing CDPG’s platform governance models and contributing to India’s data-economy policy discourse.