Trust and Trust Frameworks for Sovereign Data Sharing

Data sovereignty is essential in developing data sharing communities, use cases and infrastructures. Data sovereignty provides ‘entitled data holders’ with the means to define and enforce the conditions under which their sensitive data is shared. 

Trust and trust frameworks are fundamental in safeguarding data sovereignty; without them, the exchange of sensitive data may be inhibited:

• “Trust“ (as an objective) is the justified confidence that entities, data, and transactions conform to agreed conditions for sharing data, including rights, duties and usage conditions.  
• “Trust frameworks” (as the means) are the governance, legal, and technical instruments to realize trust in practice through identity and attestation management, accreditation of stakeholders and (trust) service providers, definition and enforcement of usage polices, authorizations, and audit. 

Due to this key importance of trust and trust frameworks for the data economy, the CoE–DSC is actively addressing these topics as part of its knowledge development and distribution activities. As such, it has provided and contributed to multiple publications and white papers.