ID3 is a newly formed research and educational non-profit institution located in Cambridge, MA. It is organized as a multidisciplinary Hub of thinkers, educators, and entrepreneurs formed to design, code, test, and scale a new data ecosystem of innovative data-driven enterprises, networks and services in finance, media, health, arts, and government. A principal focus of the entity is to develop open source software and educational content to advance legal, policy, business, analytic and software methods and practices for the protection, sharing and monetization of sensitive data.