Purpose
Motivated by its mission to accelerate the social impact sector’s ability to optimally leverage data and technology, data.org partnered with Mastercard, Harvard University, OpenDP, Javeriana University, and Sloan Foundation, to run a unique Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for Public Health Challenge to unlock innovation in the use of financial transaction data, combined with cross-domain datasets, to develop decision support tools and solutions.
This technical case study presents a detailed analysis of how the combination of the PETs technology, partnership ecosystem, derivative datasets, and analytical and evaluative processes was successfully applied to execute the novel PETs for Public Health Challenge. It also covers several of the challenges faced, solutions implemented, and the project outcomes.
It is envisioned that this technical case study will help professionals and businesses across the private sector, research and academic institutions, and social impact organizations to understand best practices, learn from our experiences, and, where applicable, apply similar strategies to their own situations to advance data sharing for social impact.
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Acknowledgment
This technical case study report would not be possible without the contributions of the experts and ecosystem actors who shared their expertise at various stages of the project. We are grateful for the time and effort they have given to this project. To the Project Team and data.org colleagues, especially Avinash Laddha, who pushed this work forward, interpreted insights, and contributed to this final report: thank you!
- Mastercard: Shanna Crumley, Smita Jain, John Derrico, Chapin Flynn
- data.org: Uyi Stewart Ph.D., Danil Mikhailov Ph.D., Avinash Laddha, Paul Korir Ph.D., Hugo Gruson Ph.D., David Mascarina, Stephanie Earl.
- Harvard University/OpenDP: Salil Vadhan Ph.D., Sharon Ayalde, Yanis Vandecasteele, Vikrant Singhal,
- University of Javeriana: Zulma Cucunuba Ph.D., Nicolas Dominguez, Felipe Segundo, Diana Fajardo,
- Judges: Bubacarr Bah, Ph.D., Sean Cavany, Ph.D., John Derrico, Jack Fitzsimons, Chapin Flynn, Christine Task, Ph.D., Charlie Whittake,r Ph.D., Wanrong Zhen, Ph.D.
- Global Challenge Awardees: Kris Parag Ph.D., (Imperial College London, UK); Ben Lambert Ph.D., (University of Oxford, UK); Anil Vullikanti Ph.D., Zihan Guan, and Dung Nguyen (University of Virginia); B. Aditya Prakash, and Leo Zhao (Georgia Tech); Ravi Tandon, Payel Bhattacharjee, and Fengwei Tian (University of Arizona); Dmitrii Usynin (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Shubham Kumar, Milan Anand Raj, and Divya Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
Finally, thank you to the Sloan Foundation for their financial support to run the challenge and implement this project.