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Global Data Regulation Diagnostic Survey Dataset 2021

Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina...and 77 more, 2020
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WLD_2020_GDRD_v01_M
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Mar 16, 2021
Last modified
Jun 13, 2022
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Identification

Survey ID Number
WLD_2020_GDRD_v01_M
Title
Global Data Regulation Diagnostic Survey Dataset 2021
Country/Economy
Name Country code
Afghanistan AFG
Angola AGO
Argentina ARG
Armenia ARM
Australia AUS
Bangladesh BGD
Benin BEN
Bolivia BOL
Brazil BRA
Burkina Faso BFA
Cambodia KHM
Cameroon CMR
Canada CAN
Chile CHL
China CHN
Colombia COL
Congo, Dem. Rep. COD
Côte d'Ivoire CIV
Dominican Republic DOM
Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
Estonia EST
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Gambia GMB
Georgia GEO
Ghana GHA
Haiti HTI
Honduras HND
India IND
Indonesia IDN
Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN
Iraq IRQ
Israel ISR
Jordan JOR
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kenya KEN
Korea, Rep. KOR
Kyrgyz Republic KGZ
Lao PDR LAO
Lebanon LBN
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MWI
Malaysia MYS
Mali MLI
Mauritius MUS
Mexico MEX
Moldova MDV
Morocco MAR
Myanmar MMR
Nepal NPL
Nicaragua NIC
Nigeria NGA
Oman OMN
Pakistan PAK
Papua New Guinea PNG
Peru PER
Philippines PHL
Qatar QAT
Russian Federation RUS
Rwanda RWA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SLE
Singapore SGP
South Africa ZAF
Sri Lanka LKA
Tajikistan TJK
Tanzania TZA
Thailand THA
Togo TGO
Tunisia TUN
Turkiye TUR
Uganda UGA
Ukraine UKR
United Arab Emirates ARE
United Kingdom GBR
Uruguay URY
Uzbekistan UZB
Vietnam VNM
Study type
Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth]
Abstract
The Global Data Regulation Diagnostic provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality of the data governance environment. Diagnostic results show that countries have put in greater effort in adopting enabler regulatory practices than in safeguard regulatory practices. However, for public intent data, enablers for private intent data, safeguards for personal and nonpersonal data, cybersecurity and cybercrime, as well as cross-border data flows. Across all these dimensions, no income group demonstrates advanced regulatory frameworks across all dimensions, indicating significant room for the regulatory development of both enablers and safeguards remains at an intermediate stage: 47 percent of enabler good practices and 41 percent of good safeguard practices are adopted across countries. Under the enabler and safeguard pillars, the diagnostic covers dimensions of e-commerce/e-transactions, enablers further improvement on data governance environment.

The Global Data Regulation Diagnostic is the first comprehensive assessment of laws and regulations on data governance. It covers enabler and safeguard regulatory practices in 80 countries providing indicators to assess and compare their performance. This Global Data Regulation Diagnostic develops objective and standardized indicators to measure the regulatory environment for the data economy across countries. The indicators aim to serve as a diagnostic tool so countries can assess and compare their performance vis-á-vis other countries. Understanding the gap with global regulatory good practices is a necessary first step for governments when identifying and prioritizing reforms.
Kind of Data
Observation data/ratings [obs]
Unit of Analysis
Country

Version

Version Description
- v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
Version Date
2021-03-21

Scope

Notes
The scope of the study includes:

A. Safeguard rights in data flows and the (re)use of data

1. Legal basis for data protection

Personal data protection/privacy
2. Lawfulness
3. Exceptions to limitations on data collection, processing and transfer
4. Consent
5. Purpose limitation, proportionality, data minimization
6. Data quality
7. Accountability
8. Sensitive personal data
9. Storage limitations
10. Privacy by design
11. Limitations on data sharing

Intermediary liability
12. Definition of liability
13. Scope of liability
14. Due process

Individual rights
15. Right to be notified of a data breach
16. Right to access and review use of personal data
17. Right to challenge accuracy and to rectification of personal data
18. Right to withdraw consent to data processing
19. Right to deletion of personal data (“right to be forgotten”)
20. Automated decisions
21. Redress
22. Institutional arrangements to enforce personal data protection

Safeguards specific to non-personal data
23. Intellectual Property Rights
24. Net Neutrality

Cybersecurity and cybercrime
25. Data security
26. Internal adoption of cybersecurity standards
27. Cybercrime: criminalized activities
28. Cybersecurity infrastructure and enforcement agency (CERT)

Cross-border data flows
29. Data localization/local processing
30. Adequacy and mutual recognition arrangements
31. Regional integration and harmonization

B. Enable data transactions/flows and the (re)use of data

32. Legal basis for e-commerce/transactions
33. Legal (functional) equivalence
34. E-Signature
35. Exceptions to e-signature
36. Certification authority (CA) for digital signatures
37. Technological neutrality
38. Data portability
39. Use, reuse, and sharing of public sector data
40. Primary ID system
41. ID credential
42. ID data verification
43. Digital ID system for online service access
44. Interoperability of data
45. Access to Information
46. Open data
47. Data classification

Restrictions on use/reuse of public sector data
48. Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and licensing of public sector data
49. Sharing-friendly license
50. Data archiving and Digital preservation

Use, reuse and sharing of private sector data
51. Data sharing regimes for private sector data
52. Role/mandate of antitrust authorities
53. Voluntary licensing of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) for private sector
54. Data-related codes of conduct

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
80 countries

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
World Bank
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
Cheng Rong World Bank Group Primary Investigator
David Satola World Bank Group Questionnaire Designer
Adele Barzelay World Bank Group Questionnaire Designer
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation
United States Agency for International Development USAID
World Development Report 2021 WDR 2021

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The diagnostic is based on a detailed assessment of domestic laws, regulations, and administrative requirements in 80 countries selected to ensure a balanced coverage across income groups, regions, and different levels of digital technology development. Data are further verified through a detailed desk research of legal texts, reflecting the regulatory status of each country as of June 1, 2020.
Response Rate
100%
Weighting
Unweighted

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2020/03/1 2020/06/1
Data Collection Mode
Mail Questionnaire [mail]
Data Collection Notes
Standard questionnaires are used to collect the data and are completed mainly by lawyers specializing in data governance and information and communication technology (ICT) providing a detailed desk review of legal texts as of June 1, 2020.
Data Collectors
Name Affiliation
Aliaksandra Tyhrytskaya World Bank Group
Federico Cardenas Chacon World Bank Group
Lillyana Sophia Daza Jaller World Bank Group
New Doe Kaledzi World Bank Group
Nicolas Conserva World Bank Group
Paris Gkartzonikasm World Bank Group

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The questionnaire comprises 37 questions designed to determine if a country has adopted good regulatory practice on data governance. The responses are then scored and assigned a normative interpretation. Related questions fall into seven clusters so that when the scores are averaged, each cluster provides an overall sense of how it performs in its corresponding regulatory and legal dimensions. These seven dimensions are: (1) E-commerce/e-transaction; (2) Enablers for public intent data; (3) Enablers for private intent data; (4) Safeguards for personal data; (5) Safeguards for nonpersonal data; (6) Cybersecurity and cybercrime; (7) Cross-border data transfers.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email
Rong Chen World Bank Group rchen5@worldbank.org
Confidentiality
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Example:

World Bank. World-Global Data Regulation Diagnostic (GDRD) Survey Dataset 2021. Ref: WLD_2020_GDRD_v01_M. Downloaded from [url] on [date]
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Cheng Rong World Bank rchen5@worldbank.org
Microdata Library World Bank microdata.worldbank.org

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
(c) 2021, World Bank

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_WLD_2020_GDRD_v01_M_M_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Documentation of the Study
Date of Metadata Production
2021-03-16
DDI Document version
V01
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