Summarising discussions hosted by the Data Trusts Initiative, this Working Paper explores the areas where further action is needed to develop data trusts. Available at this link.

This Working Paper considers what lessons for the future of data trusts can be drawn from experiences of establishing data institutions in different jurisdictions. Available at this link.

Our third Working Paper introduces seven research projects funded by the Data Trusts Initiative. Each considers a different aspect of how to operationalise data trusts. Available at this link.

As part of its project ‘Enabling data sharing for social benefit through data trusts’ the Initiative has supported GPAI in producing this statement on the core functions that a data trust must deliver. Available at this link.

This paper, published as part of the Centre for Science and Policy’s essay collection Future Directions for Citizen Science and Public Policy considers how data trusts could help bring citizen voices into decisions about data use, and tackle public policy challenges. Available at this link.

Delacroix, S. and Montgomery, J. (2020) explore how data trusts can streamline data access structures for researchers and support research participants to influence how data about them is used. Available at SSRN.

Delacroix, S., Pineau, J. and Montgomery, J. (2020) consider how data trusts can support AI systems that benefit humanity (in Reflections on AI for Humanity, Braunschweig & Ghallab (eds.), Springer, Forthcoming). Available at SSRN.

Delacroix, S. and Lawrence, N. (2019) argue that new forms of data governance are needed to address the challenges of the 21st century (International Data Privacy Law, Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 236–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipz014)

A new project from the Global Partnership on AI is investigating how data trust-like initiatives in different countries are serving citizen interests and the actions needed to create real-world data trusts. Read more here.

This joint report with the Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Council, ODI and City of London Law Society sets out how different legal models can support different forms of data stewardship. Available at this link.

In this post, Cambridge’s Centre for Science and Policy summarises a recent event that explored how data trusts can help address the data governance challenges that policymakers face today. Available at this link.

Our response to the draft Data Governance Act consultation considers the lessons data trusts offer for the creation of data intermediaries. Available at this link.

This article for IFC Review summarises the role data trusts can play in supporting trustworthy data use and data-enabled innovation. Available at this link.

Lawrence, N. (2020) discusses lessons from data sharing in computational biology, exploring how data trusts can help address a new wave of data governance challenges. Available at this link.

Delacroix, S., Huppert, J., Lawrence, N. and Montgomery, J. (2019) summarise discussions at a workshop with the Alan Turing Institute and Jesus College Intellectual Forum. Available at this link.