Removing barriers to data innovation

Empowering people and organizations to share and use data more effectively

Sharing data can help address some of society’s biggest challenges and help individuals and organizations be more innovative, efficient, and productive. Today, however, it is often difficult to determine how best to share data from both a legal and technical perspective. To help make it easier for individuals and organizations to share data, we’re offering a set of draft agreements for consideration by the community, each designed to address a specific data sharing challenge. We look forward to improving these agreements with feedback and taking additional steps to help make it easier for individuals and organizations to share data with confidence.

LinkedIn Article

Getting to Common Terms for Data Sharing

Sharing data between organizations can help address some of society’s biggest challenges. There is no question that working with data in any fashion requires careful consideration of privacy and security risks, but there are clear benefits to be gained when done appropriately.

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Backgrounder & FAQ

Questions or need additional information? Read more about our perspective on data sharing licensing and governance.

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Data Use Agreements

Open Use of Data Agreement (O-UDA)

README | Agreement
Provide feedback on our Open Use of Data Agreement GitHub repo

Computational Use of Data Agreement (C-UDA)

README | Agreement
Provide feedback on our Computational Use of Data Agreement GitHub repo

Data Use Agreement for Open AI Model Development (DUA-OAI)

README | Agreement
Send your feedback to datainno@microsoft.com

Other Resources

Find links to resources that support open data and data sharing.

Licensing, Governance, and Legal Tools

• Creative Commons licenses
• The Linux Foundation’s Community Data License Agreement licenses
• Open Data Commons licenses
• DataSAR: Data Sharing Agreement Repository
• The OBO Foundry’s Data Use Ontology

Data Repositories

• Microsoft Azure Open Datasets
• Microsoft Research Open Data
• Awesome Public Datasets
• BotSpeak Database
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Data.gov
• Harvard Dataverse
• HealthData.gov
• Open Data on GitHub
• Open Images
• Open ML
• Quora list of datasets
• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
• Udacity Self-Driving Car Dataset
• University of California-Irvine Machine Learning Repository
• USAFacts
• Wide World Importers Sample Database

Recent News

• “Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI, vows to build AI tech platform of ‘unprecedented scale’.” Bishop, Todd. GeekWire, July 22, 2019.
• “The University Health Network leverages Microsoft Azure and AI to bridge the gap between cancer research and treatment.” Peesker, Kevin. Microsoft News Center Canada, July 9, 2019.
• “DoD’s Joint AI Center to open-source natural disaster satellite imagery data set.” Johnson, Khari. VentureBeat, June 23, 2019.
• “Opinion: For a Longer, Healthier Life, Share Your Data.” Miner, Luke. New York Times, May 22, 2019.
• “Rebuilding an icon: a call for the sharing of data to help restore Notre Dame.” Dedezade, Esat. Microsoft News Centre Europe, May 20, 2019.
• “Technology can help doctors spend more time with patients, Health Secretary told, as UK embraces AI in healthcare.” Dedezade, Esat. Microsoft News Centre UK, May 7, 2019.