In the past two years, the pace of marketization of data elements has been gradually accelerated. With the development of a new generation of information technologies such as cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, the attributes of data production factors have been agreed upon by all parties and have become a strategic resource in the digital age.
“It can be seen that the country’s data strategy has undergone an upgrade in the past two years, from the 1.0 version of the marketization of data elements to the current version 2.0 of the unified data market, which has put forward new development goals and objectives from marketization to unification. requirements.” At the seminar “Activating the Potential of Data to Unleash the Power of New Elements” on May 24, Zhong Hong, Director of the Digital Economics Research Office of the Technology Innovation Research Center of Tsinghua University, expounded the above views.
So, what are the problems of developing and utilizing data elements? How to ensure data privacy and security?
From 1.0 to 2.0, from “marketization” to “unification”
In 2020, the “Opinions on Building a Better Market-Based Allocation System and Mechanism for Factors” pointed out the direction for promoting the market-oriented reform of data elements, which is called the 1.0 version of the data strategy. The past 2021 can be called a key year for the development of the data element market. The country is accelerating relevant supporting measures and promotion efforts from several dimensions such as digital economy planning, data legislation, and the construction of the data element market system.
An important part of the 1.0 stage is to increase the integration and utilization of social data resources, to cultivate new industries, new formats and new models of the digital economy, and to support agriculture, industry, transportation, urban management and other fields with data-driven and digital development in the field of public resource transactions.
The “Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market” issued this year clearly stated that it is necessary to accelerate the cultivation of a unified technology and data market. These include accelerating the cultivation of the data element market, establishing and improving basic systems and standards for data security, rights protection, cross-border transmission management, transaction circulation, open sharing, security certification, etc., conducting in-depth data resource investigations, and promoting the development and utilization of data resources.
“We can see the establishment of provincial-level data trading platforms across the country. We call this new model of data trading market 2.0.” Zhong Hong believes that Beijing International Big Data Exchange, Shanghai Data Exchange, Guizhou Province Provincial trading platforms such as data circulation trading platforms are forming a new market trading system.
Crack the “Impossible Triangle” of Data Circulation
“The marketization of data elements is not simply the construction of digital infrastructure, or the transaction of data assets, but on this basis, to achieve three important goals, namely, data compliance and efficient circulation, data empowerment of the real economy, and digital The dividends are shared by the people.” At the above forum, Liu Wei, deputy director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute of the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, said.
In order to achieve the above goals, the data element market must meet the bottom line requirements, that is, data security. There is an “impossible triangle” problem in data circulation, that is, “security, privacy”, “quality, ease of use” and “circulation” are difficult to take into account at the same time.
Song Chao, solution director of Ant Group’s digital technology business group, explained that due to the special properties of data, once it is “seen”, it will leak specific information, which can be copied at low cost, which will lead to data flow “can’t be released”. “I can’t control it,” the more valuable the data, the less willing it is to open it up, so the value of the data cannot be exerted or applied.
“In addition to top-level policy design, high-quality data, and a sustainable and stable business model, how to use the power of technology to ensure the privacy and security of data elements in the process of circulation, transaction, and use is an urgent problem to be solved, and privacy computing , blockchain and other technologies can solve this problem.” said Chen Zhengwei, executive vice president of the Smart City Design Institute of Shanghai INESA (Group) Co., Ltd.
Privacy computing has become an important technology to solve the problem of data circulation in recent years. Because it realizes the technical collection of data analysis and calculation under the premise of protecting the data itself from being leaked to the outside world, and achieves the purpose of “available and invisible” to the data, it can realize the transformation and transformation of data value under the premise of fully protecting the data and privacy security. freed.
At the recently concluded Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022, Zhou Xiaochuan, president of the China Society for Finance and Banking, also said that the development of a number of technologies such as privacy computing is to deal with the security, privacy and pricing faced in the cross-border flow of data and free transactions. The question offers ample possibilities.
The demand for privacy computing has entered an explosive period
The demand for marketization of data elements in China has also brought about the potential explosion of privacy computing. The “Privacy Computing Panorama Research” report recently released by the international consulting agency IDC China provides quantitative data on the development potential of privacy computing. The report states that the size of China’s privacy computing market will exceed 860 million yuan in 2021. The report pointed out that Internet manufacturers including Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Security, Ant, and Tencent Cloud have already deployed privacy computing.
Chen Zhengwei said that many companies do not have the ability to independently build the entire digital system, and there is an urgent need for privacy computing vendors to provide related services.
Taking ant privacy computing as an example, Song Chao said that after more than 4 years of polishing and large-scale commercial application, it has begun to take shape. Among them, the Morse privacy computing platform developed by Ant is used by hundreds of institutions in more than ten industries, including joint risk control, joint marketing, joint scientific research, and government data security opening. The data privacy collaboration platform (FAIR) based on the combination of blockchain and privacy computing has also been applied in many scenarios such as government affairs and finance. Collaborative computing and data privacy protection give play to the value of “1+1>2”.
According to Chen Zhengwei, financial institutions in Shanghai provided financial support for small, medium and micro enterprises during the epidemic. In addition to traditional assessment dimensions such as asset mortgages, they also needed tax data, water and electricity data and other enterprise data. Since the data cannot be fully opened to banks, it is necessary to This problem is solved through privacy computing, which not only protects corporate privacy, but also ensures data security.
“I believe that in the future, new technologies such as privacy computing and blockchain will provide more technical guarantees for the marketization of data elements and help data elements play a greater value.” Chen Zhengwei said.
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