By December, this work had borne fruit and we announced a $4 million Microsoft commitment to support the Hutch’s project. Formally called the Cascadia Data Discovery Initiative, the work is designed to help identify and facilitate the sharing of data in privacy-protected ways among the Hutch, the University of Washington, and the University of British Columbia and the BC Cancer Agency, both based in Vancouver. It is an early example of what is starting to spread, including the California Data Collaborative, where cities, water retailers, and land planning agencies are federating data to enable
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