Davos, Jan 23 (UNI) Japan will launch a new track for looking at data governance under the auspices of of the World Trade Organisation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Wednesday.
This new track, to be set in motion at the June G20 Summit, will define ways for personal and security data under careful privacy protection, while at the same time facilitating the free flow of medical, industrial, traffic and other data.
"I would like Osaka G20 to be long remembered as the summit that started world-wide data governance. Let Osaka G20 set in train a new track for looking at data governance -- call it the Osaka Track -- under the roof of the WTO," Abe said in a special address to the World Economy Forum.