This paper is meant to inform the on-going exploration of how to enable systematic, sustainable, and responsible re-use of data through cross-sector data collaboration in the public interest (often called Data for Good). Data stewards build trust between organizations, agilely creating relationships between leaders from different sectors and backgrounds.Specifically, the position paper seeks to outline the roles and responsibilities of the emergent data steward profession. It is intended to support data-holding businesses and public institutions to create and promote data stewards in the public and private sectors; and to establish a network of these data stewards—as recently recommended by the High Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing.
