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Interpretation

1. For the purposes of this Policy, ‘data sharing’ includes, but is not limited to, the use, viewing, transfer, linkage, or exchange of data between the data donor and another party, or between a data steward and a third party, either openly or under specified access conditions. Data sharing may occur without having the data move from one place to another.
2. Stakeholders include, but are not limited to, researchers, bioinformaticians, IT experts, research participants and patient communities, journal publishers, research funding agencies, data protection authorities, academic institutions, hospitals, clinicians, research ethics committees, the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry, governments and government agencies, and public health organizations.
3. This policy addresses compliance with ‘data sharing standards’, by which it means locally applicable data sharing standards derived from laws, regulations, guidelines, policies and agreements. This policy only applies to GA4GH best practices to the extent they are adopted locally.