A Study on a Concept Design of Earth-Environmental-Data Marketplace Based on Business Needs

Abstract

We found some enterprises who could play roles in data-procession ecosystem except for data auditors and community, and for venture investors, through research of enterprises on a question “What data marketplace, whose operator aims toward financial independence, would be able to provide incentives for private sectors to participate in itself?” in order to utilize and disseminate new scientific knowledge relevant to earth-environmental information. This paper discusses a design of a data marketplace. The keystone of the design is whether 'anonymization' certification, which certifies that each data set dealt on the marketplace contains no privacy, will become recognized as de fact standard or not. Anticipated user supports are (1) protections against data theft, (2) settlement functions on matching contracts or on deals for data and relevant applications, (3) demonstration of successful examples, (4) marketing, and publicity work, for example, induction of participants' benefit.