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id: "coronavirus-smarter-crowdsourcing:strategies/Use-legislative-or-regulatory-mechanisms-or-execut"
type: "GovLab policy strategy"
title: "Use legislative or regulatory mechanisms or executive orders to enable data sharing across jurisdictions."
url: "https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/strategies/use-legislative-or-regulatory-mechanisms-or-execut"
summary: "Use legislative or regulatory mechanisms or executive orders to enable data sharing across jurisdictions. Governments should reduce the regulatory burdens that hinder or inhibit data sharing between jurisdictions."
source: "The GovLab (coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
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# Use legislative or regulatory mechanisms or executive orders to enable data sharing across jurisdictions.

Use legislative or regulatory mechanisms or executive orders to enable data sharing across jurisdictions. Governments should reduce the regulatory burdens that hinder or inhibit data sharing between jurisdictions.

- Timeframe: 1-3 Months (immediate)
- Audience: Government Workers
- Type: Policy/Legislative/Regulatory, Data, Partnerships
- Recommendation: [Interjurisdictional Coordination](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/recommendations/interjurisdictional-coordination)
- Part of: [Smarter Crowdsourcing in the Age of Coronavirus](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/)

## Actions governments should take

1. Conduct an analysis of existing regulatory and legislative mechanisms that may hinder or inhibit data sharing between jurisdictions.
2. Issue temporary waivers to enable data sharing agreements while working toward a more durable and long term regulatory and legislative solution.
3. Advocate for and develop new or replacement legislation and regulations that enable data sharing between jurisdictions.

## Examples from around the world

1. [States of the European Union have agreed on common specifications and data sharing protocol to ensure that contact tracing apps from different countries can communicate. This ensures that as people travel within the Schengen area, the contact tracing app they use will communicate with others.](https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/ehealth/docs/modelling_mobilitydata_en.pdf)