India Data Management Office (IDMO)

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Context

• India Data Management Office (IDMO) has been proposed by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY).

 

Details

• India Data Management Office (IDMO) will act as the country’s non-personal data regulator.
• India Data Management Office (IDMO) will frame, manage and periodically review and revise the National Data Governance Framework Policy (NDGFP).
• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will create the IDMO under the Digital India Corporation.
• The IDMO will develop rules, standards, and guidelines under the new data policy (NDGFP), which will be published periodically.
• The IDMO will frame all data, datasets, and metadata rules, and guidelines in consultation with ministries, state governments, and industry. It will create and manage the country’s datasets platform and also help Indian researchers, as well as startups, gain access to anonymised datasets.

Note: In January 2021, the Gopalakrishnan committee recommended the identification of certain “high-value datasets”, which could be shared for the purpose of encouraging innovation and ensuring national security.

 

In a nutshell,

India Data Management Office (IDMO) will be established under the Digital India Corporation ("DIC") under MeitY.

• It will be responsible for framing, managing and periodically reviewing and revising the Policy.
• It will be responsible for developing rules, standards, and guidelines periodically.
• It will formulate all data/datasets/metadata rules, standards, and guidelines in consultation with Ministries, State Governments, and industry.
• It will also encourage the data and Al-based Research, and start-up eco-systems by working with the Digital India Start-up Hub (the erstwhile MSH).

 

Every Ministry/Department will establish a Data Management Unit (DMUs) for ensuring the implementation of the Policy.

 

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