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OECD

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — 38 member countries, Paris. Relevant to this wiki as a standard-setter and evidence aggregator for data governance, not as a funder or a potential client. Its data-governance work runs through the Digital Policy Committee (DPC) and its subsidiary bodies; the operational unit is the Data Governance and Privacy Unit, headed by Clarisse Girot, within the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Added 2026-10-27 from sources/research/2026-10-27-oecd-data-spaces-co-ordination-viability-public-policy/.

Why an OECD document carries different weight

Reports in the OECD Digital Economy Papers series are declassified by the committee before publication — the 2026 data spaces report was declassified by the DPC on 10 June 2026. That means member governments have seen and not blocked the text. ⟨Inference: for our purposes this makes an OECD finding usable as a neutral third-party reference in a way that an IDSA, Gaia-X or Fraunhofer publication is not — those are all authored by parties with a position in the market being described. The OECD report makes exactly this point about its own key funding figure, which it traces to Gaia-X board members writing in a commentary outlet.⟩

CC BY 4.0 licensing on the publication means we can quote and reproduce with attribution.

People

  • Clarisse Girot — Head, Data Governance and Privacy Unit; supervised the 2026 data spaces report.
  • Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze — principal author of the 2026 data spaces report; the OECD’s long-running analyst on data value and data access.
  • Shunya Muromachi (credited for “contributions”), Maiko Meguro (credited for “feedback” and supervision) ⟨corrected 2026-10-29: both were listed here as co-authors; the report’s acknowledgements give Reimsbach-Kounatze as the drafter and these two the lesser roles⟩ (the Japanese secondment is visible in the report’s unusually detailed treatment of ODS-RAM, ABtC and IPA certification).
  • Shihori Maeda — research assistance.

Relevant workstreams

  • Data spaces. Data Spaces between Co-ordination Challenges, Financial Viability and Public Policy (2026) — the report ingested here. Funded by voluntary contributions of Japan. Convened an Expert Workshop on data space business models at the Data Spaces Symposium, Warsaw, 11 March 2025, under the Chatham House Rule (Annex A).
  • DFFT — Data Free Flow with Trust. The OECD hosts the Institutional Arrangement for Partnership (IAP) workstream following the G7 Hiroshima process; the G7 Industry, Digital and Technology Ministerial Declaration of December 2025 commits to advancing DFFT through the promotion of privacy-enhancing technologies.
  • Global Repository on PETs — named in the G7 declaration as an instrument for building understanding of privacy-enhancing technologies. ⟨Inference: this is the single most directly relevant OECD artefact to SINE’s cryptographic argument, and we have not looked at it. Candidate source.⟩
  • Public procurement data. The OECD is implementing a Technical Support Instrument project supporting a cohort of Member States connecting to the EU Public Procurement Data Space.

Relevance to SINE

⟨Inference throughout this section.⟩

  • The OECD is the most citable neutral authority we have for the claim that the binding constraint on data sharing is governance, not technology — which is the Data Commons thesis, reached independently and with an n=235 registry behind it.
  • Its four boundary conditions are directly usable as a qualification framework in proposals and tenders.
  • Its finding that data monetisation has not proven a viable funding model is a finding about SINE’s own market and should temper any marketplace framing in our own materials.
  • It is the first body in this wiki to reach for privacy-enhancing technologies and argue both for them and about their limits — relevant to open task 19.
  • Not a funder for us and not a client; the realistic relationship is citation, and at most contribution to a consultation or an expert workshop of the kind Annex A records.

Sources

sources/research/2026-10-27-oecd-data-spaces-co-ordination-viability-public-policy/2026-10-27-oecd-data-spaces-co-ordination-viability-public-policy.md (front matter, acknowledgements, §5.5, §4.5, Annex A).

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