The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) has awarded a total of $240 thousand to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Université de Montréal and Unity Health Toronto for the Controlled Access Management for Research Data (CAM) initiative. This initiative forms part of the Alliance’s DRI Investments for 2023-25, and will benefit those who work with sensitive data.
CAM aims to enable researchers, institutions and repositories to manage controlled access to data through new software, tools and workflows. With these resources in place, Canadian research security will be strengthened, greater discovery will be supported and unnecessary data loss will be prevented.
Unity Health Toronto has been awarded $80 thousand in funding to host a Controlled Data Access Services Specialist, who will support pilot testing of new encryption software.
CAMH and Université de Montréal have each been awarded $80 thousand in funding to host Controlled Data Access Engagement Specialists, who will support collaboration between researchers, repositories and institutions participating in the pilot.
In addition to providing specialized support, these new positions will work closely with other CAM Partner Organizations to co-develop a pilot roadmap for new technologies, workflows and training resources.
Investments in CAM will:
- Improve research data management
- Enhance research security
- Streamline research workflows
- Support compliance with data security and sharing requirements
- Enable appropriate data reuse to help inform new research, promote collaboration and advance open science
The Alliance looks forward to working with CAMH, Université de Montréal, Unity Health Toronto and all CAM Partner Organizations to advance research data management and security.
For more information, please contact: funding-subventions@alliancecan.ca.