NSF and NCSES established America’s DataHub Consortium in August 2021 to enable evidence-building by streamlining collaboration between researchers, innovators, and subject matter experts. ADC utilizes an innovative, flexible, and scalable acquisition process that adapts emerging challenges with secured federal and nonfederal data to inform decision-makers and benefit the American public. It is a public-private partnership that brings together experts from government, industry, and academia to collaboratively research and solve our nation’s toughest challenges.
We are inviting input from all stakeholders that may be used to inform future project solicitations and other activities America's Datahub Consortium will undertake, including those to inform a potential National Secure Data Service. Ideas submitted will be shared publicly so they must be non-proprietary and non-attributional.
We intend to collaboratively engage with the stakeholder community on the ideas submitted, so stay tuned for more information!
Priority Topics:
• Privacy Preserving Technologies (PPT) – innovative technologies, techniques, methodologies, approaches, tools, and other like terms that relate to securing data and preserving individual privacy when conducting statistical analysis used for research and evidence-building. This includes but is not limited to privacy preserving record linkage (PPRL), Secure Multi-Party Computing, and statistical disclosure limitation.
• Data collection, access, linkage, and standards – new/improved collection methods, accessibility, linkages (framework for linked data), improvements for data interoperability (i.e., metadata), and data quality
• Statistical and other quantitative analyses – including but not limited to efforts supporting NCSES's six core areas of interest related to the U.S. science and engineering enterprise.
https://ncses.nsf.gov/interest-areas
• Legal frameworks – reducing legal barriers for data sharing across federal and state agencies and organizations at all levels and across sectors.
• User Tools – development and optimization of tools that support shared service models for evidence-based policy making, including concierge services, toolkits, etc.
• Stakeholder Engagement – overcoming barriers across stakeholder groups, including across geography and sectors, that allow for improved engagement and sustained partnerships for evidence-based decision-making.
• Artificial Intelligence – furthering the recommendations included in the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force Report “Strengthening and Democratizing the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Innovation Ecosystem.”
https://www.ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/NAIRR-TF-Final-Report-2023.pdf
• Other – furthering the National Secure Data Service recommendations included in the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building (ACDEB) Year 2 Report.
https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2022-10/acdeb-year-2-report.pdf
National Secure Data Service Demonstration Project (NSDS-D):
https://ncses.nsf.gov/about/national-secure-data-service-demo
ADC FAQs:
https://www.americasdatahub.org/frequently-asked-questions/
Idea form:
https://www.americasdatahub.org/idea-bank-form/