The International Data Reserve
- Established 2022
- Established 2022
Powering the financial system for data, certifying Data Agents, sharing data valuation metrics, and enabling trusted data transactions at scale.
About IDR
The International Data Reserve (IDR) is a private, independent regulatory body that oversees a network of authorized and audited Data Agents providing data monetization services for companies and consumers.
The institution develops and maintains the standards, policies, and valuation metrics that govern the ecosystem's operation. Governance rests with a Board of Directors, elected by the Data Agents to serve three-year terms.
The IDR's mandate centers on four challenges fundamental to the modern AI economy: data sovereignty, data fragmentation, data valuation, and data ownership.
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Data Sovereignty
The right of individuals and nations to govern the data they produce. Sovereignty must be enforceable for data to function as an asset class, as ownership rights cannot be claimed without it.
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Data Fragmentation
Cross-platform and cross-border incompatibility constrains portability and value discovery. An asset class requires interoperability; data that cannot move cannot be owned or have its value defined.
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Data Valuation Metrics
A shared, auditable methodology for determining the value of data. Without standardized valuation, data cannot be measured, exchanged, or accounted for as an asset.
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Data Ownership
The legal, economic, and technical infrastructure underpinning sovereignty, interoperability, and valuation. Without clear ownership, data cannot be transferred, collateralized, or recognized as property.
Functions
How the IDR maintains the integrity and interoperability of the data monetization ecosystem.
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Enabling data transactions
The IDR Value Schema System (VSS) defines the identifiers, credentials, schemas, and certificates that give the ecosystem a unified language for data. This shared baseline is the connective tissue that makes sovereignty, valuation, and ownership operational.
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Developing policy
The IDR develops the policies that govern global adoption of the VSS, the introduction of new schemas, and fair competition among Data Agents. The Guides and Framework is a living document, revised through public comment and periodic review.
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Regulating the ecosystem
The IDR regulates data valuation, the trust architecture of the monetization ecosystem, the schemas that structure it, and the regional data reserves that operate within it. Its scope is comparable to ICANN and the BIS combined.
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Involving the public
Civil society is not one constituency among many. It is a primary stakeholder in the Reserve. The IDR incorporates public comment into every published framework and sustains a multistakeholder model through events, training, and research grants.
Data Agent
Data Agents are authorized and audited operators of the data economy. They provide certified data monetization services to businesses and individuals turning data into a financial asset.
Data Agents are the distribution and trust layer of the system issuing accounts, safeguarding assets, and scaling Data Savings across the economy.
They act as:
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Custodians
Custodians of data certificates, ensuring security, integrity, and compliance.
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Issuers
Issuers of Personal and Business dWallets, onboarding participants into the system.
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Operators
Operators of custody and infrastructure, managing how data is held and transacted.
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Distributors
Distributors of Data Savings Plans, enabling individuals and enterprises to save, allocate, and compound the value of their data.
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Marketplace enablers
Activating offers and monetization flows.
Become a Data Agent
Interested in joining the ecosystem?
Contact if you are interested in becoming a Data Agent and help build the trust layer of the data economy.
info@theinternationaldatareserve.orgOur System
The IDR operates as a federated system: sovereign at the national level and coordinated globally. Its structure comprises seven regions, each authorizing seven Data Agents, for a total of forty-nine worldwide.
Regions Active
2/7
Authorized Data Agents
49
Standard Data Agents
3
The IDR System
Seven regions.
One framework.
Each regional reserve governs its own territory while operating within a shared global standard.
REG - 01
ACTIVE
North
America
United States
Canada
Mexico
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REG - 02
FORMING
Latin
America
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
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REG - 03
PLANNED
Middle East &
North Africa
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
UAE
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REG - 04
ACTIVE
Europe &
Central Asia
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Portugal
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REG - 05
FORMING
East Asia &
Pacific
Singapore
Japan
China
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REG - 06
PLANNED
Sub-Saharan
Africa
South Africa
Angola
Kenya
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REG - 07
PLANNED
South
Asia
India
Pakistan
Nepal
+Governance
The IDR operates between General Assemblies through five standing committees, each with a narrow mandate, a chair elected by members, and a public agenda.
Guides & Framework Committee
Responsible for developing and maintaining the IDR Guides & Framework. The living body of standards, procedures, and valuation methodology that defines the Reserve's work.
Data Economy Committee
Custodian of the Asymmetry Policy and the target Asymmetry Rate. Tracks finance, market structure, and the macroeconomics of the data ecosystem between assemblies.
Committee of Data Agents Supervision
CDAS authorizes, audits, and, where necessary, sanctions data agents. The regional reserves sit on CDAS. It is the standard setter for data monetization worldwide.
Technology & Standards Committee
Follows up on standards, rules, technology, innovation, and operations in the ecosystem during the period between General Assemblies.
Ethics & Governance Committee
Supports the Secretary General in General Assembly proceedings. Holds the power to call an Extraordinary GA when a matter demands it.
Secretary General & Secretariat
Baar, Switzerland. Convenes the General Assembly, executes its resolutions, and represents the Reserve before multilateral bodies, governments, and civil society globally.
A PROPOSAL
The Data Savings Act.
A proposal for the AI Economy to turn participation into ownership and contributions into compounding assets.
This Act proposes returning the value of data to the ones who generate it.
Data Savings Act Proposal →Connect
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