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The Data Collaboration Alliance is a nonprofit that's dedicated to helping people and organizations get full control of their information.
We see control (through the reduction of data silos and copy-based data integration) as the key to unlocking meaningful data ownership, simplified compliance, and super-efficient innovation.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
UNIVERSAL
CONTROL
We support approaches to digital innovation that minimize data silos and copies in order to make meaningful control possible.
UNIVERSAL
OWNERSHIP
We believe that data ownership is a human right and control should be in the hands of the rightful owner or a temporary custodian they appoint.
UNIVERSAL
ACCESS
We support frictionless innovation that's powered by collaboration between people and systems and protected by owner-defined access grants.
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Making control the foundation of data ownership and global collaborative intelligence
WHAT WE DO
 Our Collaboration Hub hosts open datasets, data crowdsourcing projects for nonprofits and data-for-good teams, and a growing marketplace of free digital solutions in support of important global causes. |  We support Zero-Copy Integration, a new standard for digital innovation that decouples data from apps to support meaningful control and collaboration. We're also developing the World's first Data Collaboration Policy template. |  The Collaborative Intelligence Network is a research project focused on defining a global infrastructure for data and apps that's based on control and collaboration. Includes a blueprint, videos, and interoperability tests. |
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 The Data Drop is a podcast and event series focusing on data ownership, data governance, and the future of innovation. Listeners stay on top of best practices and emerging trends by participating in polls. |
IT'S YOUR DATA
The Data Drop News for Thursday, April 1, 2021
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The Data Drop Panel: August 2022
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The Data Drop News for Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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The Data Drop Panel: June 2022
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GET INVOLVED
ORGANIZE
Host a data collaboration project and support the development of a new digital-for-good solution.
FREE PARTNERSHIPS
Align your organization with the global movement for meaningful data ownership, simplified compliance, and super-efficient digital innovation.
The combination of Data Collaboration and data ownership will define digital transformation for decades to come. I fully support the Data Collaboration Alliance in their efforts to accelerate that future.
Sylvie Veilleux
Ex-CIO, Dropbox and
DCA Advisor
We're talking about re-architecting the next wave of digital society, and we're going to need a lot of people to pitch in.
Mark Surman
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation and DCA Advisor
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Watch: A Brief History of Data Ownership
VISIT THE HUB!
Our Collaboration Hub supports data crowdscourcing projects, a marketplace of free solutions, and learning opportunities
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Data Collaboration projects
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Digital-for-good solutions
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Data skills
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BORDERLESS DATA REQUIRES UNIVERSAL CONTROL
CXOs everywhere are dealing with the ever-increasing problems associated with app proliferation and copy-based data integration
We advocate Zero-Copy Integration, the new standard in digital innovation that replaces copies and chaos with CONTROL and collaboration.