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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.

LATEST UPDATES

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Making control the foundation of data ownership and global collaborative intelligence

WHAT WE DO

IT'S YOUR DATA

The Data Drop News for Thursday, April 1, 2021
The Data Drop News for Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Data Drop News for Thursday, April 1, 2021

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The Data Drop Panel: August 2022

The Data Drop Panel: August 2022

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The Data Drop News for Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Data Drop News for Wednesday, July 27, 2022

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The Data Drop Panel: June 2022

The Data Drop Panel: June 2022

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GET INVOLVED

VOLUNTEER

Roll up your sleeves and curate one of the open datasets in our Collaboration Hub.

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ORGANIZE

Host a data collaboration project and support the development of a new digital-for-good solution.

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SPONSOR

Support data collaboration by sponsoring a banner on one of our free digital solutions.

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CONTRIBUTE

Share your insights and opinions on data ownership and the future of innovation.

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FREE PARTNERSHIPS

Align your organization with the global movement for meaningful data ownership, simplified compliance, and super-efficient digital innovation.

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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

Zero-Copy Integration is a global standard initiative of the Data Collaboration Alliance

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. 

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