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Data Collaboration

Unlocking data across organisations through positive-sum games: privacy-preserving foundations, fair value sharing, joint governance. Share knowledge, not data.

Rocketstar Foundation, 2023

Data collaboratives are cross-organisational partnerships that pool data for shared intelligence, made newly feasible by privacy-preserving techniques: federated learning and its relatives let institutions share knowledge without sharing data. Three principles make the game positive-sum at scale: privacy-preserving foundations, fair value sharing, joint governance.

Data Collaboration is the vehicle of the Research Loop. Its flagship is Tapir, the People Data Collaboration platform; its lineage runs through GAIA-X, Ocean Protocol and the concept of decentralised data trusts. Own your AI, keep your data.

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