This July 2019 Microshare white paper outlines the need to embrace a modern scalable data ownership framework, and provides an approach for how to recognize who/what owns the data, who sets the rules for accessing, editing, sharing, and monetizing data, rules enforcement and conflict resolution. The concept of digital ombudsman is discussed. This paper is relevant for those involved in any aspect of data initiation, ownership, use and management.
Key words: data networking, data management