National Data Management: A Modern Data Stewardship Approach for the Swiss Administration Enabled by the New Platform “I14Y Interoperability”

Abstract

To create the basis for the implementation of the Once-Only-Principle in Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council launched a program called “National Data Management” in 2019. The Once-Only-Principle aims to reduce the administrative burden on citizens and companies. Instead of having to contact them repetitively for the same information, the responsible authorities should strive to exchange the required data. To enable this, we need to actively work on the data landscape of the Swiss administration. The concept of data stewardship is known to be an efficient tool to promote and ensure a consistent high level of data quality. Nowadays public administrations of many countries strive to embrace the idea of data stewardship. This paper describes the approach we have developed for the Swiss administration.