Data Spaces: A Promising Approach for African Data Governance
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The document discusses the potential of data spaces for improving data governance in Africa, emphasizing their role in facilitating trustworthy data transactions across various sectors. It highlights the need for structured environments that promote data accessibility, sovereignty, and compliance while addressing regional challenges like water management and public health. A call to action is made for collaboration, pilot projects, and skills development to leverage data spaces effectively across the continent.
Data Spaces: A Promising Approach for African Data Governance
- 1. DATA SPACES A Promising Approach for African Data Governance 2nd Innovate Africa Symposium Strengthening Data Governance in the African Data Ecosystem 25-27 September 2024 - Kigali, Rwanda Slim Turki, Dr. Senior Researcher dr.slim.turki@gmail.com | slim.turki@list.lu linkedin.com/in/slimturki/
- 2. RATIONALE ▪ Data recognized as valuable economic asset for innovation and growth, as national sovereignty issue, crucial resource for AI dev. ▪ Beyond Open Data: Need to combine public, private, and personal data to address complex challenges. ▪ Data spaces propelled to central topic in many national/regional strategies ▪ China National Data Administration (2023), "Data Element X" plan for 2024-2026, benefit 12 industries and fields. ▪ European Data Strategy (2020), Common European Data Spaces as Key component, in 14 sectors. ▪ Several African countries have developed or are in the process of developing national data and/or AI strategies. ▪ Preserve strategic initiative, as subject arriving to Africa. ▪ Symposium as platform for discussing relevance and feasibility of data spaces in Africa. 2
- 3. WHAT'S A DATA SPACE? ▪ Distributed system defined by a governance framework, enables trustworthy data transactions between participants while supporting trust and data sovereignty (DSSC Glossary) ▪ Structured environment for storing, managing, and accessing data across multiple sources and systems within an organizational, national, or inter. context. ▪ Encompasses frameworks, policies, standards, technologies enabling the secure, efficient, and interoperable exchange and processing of data among diverse stakeholders. ▪ Make data more accessible and usable while ensuring data sovereignty, privacy, and compliance with regulations. ▪ Data spaces operate as marketplaces, enable data owners and service providers to receive financial compensation for their contributions. 3
- 4. TECHNICAL COMPONENTS ▪ Connector ▪ Provides capabilities to finely adjust how the data is shared, negotiates contracts and enforces the rules set by data space participants. ▪ Manages process of transferring data ▪ Off-the-shelf solutions, some available open source ▪ API augmented with the trustworthy component to handle data by implementing policy enforcement mechanisms. ▪ Shared services ▪ Provided by data space operator(s), managed in a centralized or decentralized manner ▪ Identity management, Registration service , Catalog, Policy engine, Data anonymization, Data asset monetization 4
- 5. RUDI – RENNES URBAN DATA INTERFACE 5 “To provide local stakeholders with a safe and easy way to share their data that lets them stay in control, giving them access to a one-stop shop for a wide range of regional data which can be used to create and improve digital services centred around responsible and ethical data management. ”
- 6. CHALLENGES ▪ Technological Complexity ▪ Economic and Regulatory Barriers ▪ High compliance costs (data privacy, security, etc.) ▪ Slow digital transformation ▪ Mismatched supply and demand ▪ Incomplete data pricing mechanisms ▪ Strategic and Adoption Challenges ▪ Lack of large-scale use cases (Chicken-and-egg dilemma) ▪ Politics more than business driven initiatives ▪ Trust 6
- 7. DATA SPACES: A PROMISING APPROACH FOR AFRICAN DATA GOVERNANCE ▪ Structured Approach: Data spaces improve governance and enable robust data ecosystems. ▪ Relevance to Africa: don't be impressed. ▪ Urgent and Relevant Use Cases ▪ Critical areas like water management, disaster response, road safety, healthcare, and urban planning. ▪ Regional challenges call for Cross-Border Cooperation ▪ Growing Data Ecosystems with collaborative culture and community-oriented problem-solving. ▪ Frugal Data Spaces ▪ Resource constraints can inspire innovative, locally tailored solutions. ▪ Start Simple with focused initiatives that can grow into comprehensive systems. ▪ Open-Source building blocks. ▪ International Partnerships ▪ Share expertise, funding, and best practices through global collaborations. 7
- 8. CALL FOR ACTION & COLLABORATION • Address action-oriented use cases: Identify key areas data spaces ground tangible impact. • Pilot Data Spaces: Launch small-scale pilot projects to test and refine the concept in real-world scenarios. • Partner For Skills Development: Engage in relevant action research to develop local expertise and knowledge transfer. • ConsolidateYour Data Ecosystem: Strengthen collaboration between public, private and academia stakeholders to build a solid foundation for data innovation and economy. 8 Let's make it happen!
- 9. DATA SPACES A Promising Approach for African Data Governance 2nd Innovate Africa Symposium Strengthening Data Governance in the African Data Ecosystem 25-27 September 2024 - Kigali, Rwanda Slim Turki, Dr. Senior Researcher dr.slim.turki@gmail.com | slim.turki@list.lu linkedin.com/in/slimturki/