Recently, Haizhu district collaborated with Tsinghua University to draft China's first group standard, the Data Broker Capability Maturity Assessment Model (DBCMM).

The DBCMM aims to institute a framework for evaluating and enhancing the capabilities and standardization of data brokers in the realm of data circulation services. This initiative seeks to cultivate the data element market ecosystem while promoting efficient and compliant data circulation practices.

Six local companies in Haizhu district became data brokers in Guangdong province in December 2023, further expanding the application areas to include communication infrastructure, construction engineering, transportation, data governance, healthcare, and industrial internet.

The DBCMM evaluates data brokers' comprehensive capabilities through four assessment dimensions: organization, institution, process, and technology. It establishes five core competency domains of ecosystem collaboration, organizational assurance, data security, data operations, technological innovation, and 19 competency items, achieving a scientific, systematic, and quantifiable assessment of data broker capabilities.

This standard categorizes data broker capability maturity into five levels: initial, managed, robust, quantitatively managed, and optimized, clarifying differences between different levels and demonstrating the maturity level differences in enterprise data broker management and application.

The introduction of DBCMM can provide clear guidance for data brokers, promote convenient data access, improve data utilization efficiency, and reduce data transaction costs.

Haizhu district. [Photo/WeChat account: gzhzfb]