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Helping governments, regulators, and innovators responsibly test the future

Sandboxes are powerful tools to design, test, and scale responsible innovation

Read the 5 minutes introduction to sandboxes

At the Datasphere Initiative, we support your sandbox journey — whether you’re just getting started or scaling a regulatory or operational sandbox.

Your Sandbox Journey starts here

We offer – a full range of services, from tailored capacity-building to hands-on exploration, implementation and evaluation.

Here is how:

LEARN

With our exploration and coaching sessions

Build a shared understanding of what sandboxes are, how they work, and why they matter. These sessions align your team around key concepts and lay the foundation for adopting a sandbox mindset.

Sandbox Readiness Blueprint – A diagnostic session to assess whether a sandbox fits your data governance needs & regulatory challenges.

Masterclass on Sandboxes – A deep dive into the sandbox as an agile governance methodology, tailored to both beginner & advanced teams.

Coaching Journeys – A modular, hands-on, one-on-one approach aimed at enhancing organizational readiness to design and run sandboxes responsibly and effectively.

For individuals and teams seeking to learn about the potential of sandboxes to address emerging technologies’ governance or regulatory challenges, align stakeholders or internal departments, or start a sandbox conversation.

EXPLORE

With our Co-Creation Lab sessions

Interactive workshops where participants brainstorm high-impact use cases, map goals, stakeholders, resources, governance structures, and responsibility aspects needed for effective sandbox design.

Framing and Recommendations Report – Documentation of key discussions, identification of opportunities and barriers, and strategic recommendations for next steps.

Sandbox Canvas – Clarity of core elements such as scope, actors, legal models, and infrastructure.

Sandbox Roadmap – Practical action plan outlining priority steps, milestones, required resources, and stakeholder responsibilities for launching a sandbox initiative.

Institutions and consortiums that want to explore sandboxing for specific challenges (or regulatory questions) and align internal and external partners.

DO

Implement a sandbox with our 5-Phase Support Framework

From concept to completion, we guide you through the five phases of implementation. Whether you need templates, strategic advice, or full facilitation, we offer flexible levels of support tailored to your project.

(1) Preparedness – Awareness, assessment, coordination, and training.

(2) Sandbox Set-Up – Framing, design, stakeholder mapping

(3) Operation – Facilitation, iteration, and feedback mechanisms

(4) Engagement & Communication – Narrative building and outreach strategy

(5) Exit & Evaluation – Closing, documentation and evaluation

For teams that are ready to launch or scale a sandbox and want experienced support throughout the journey.

Book a free consultation

We offer a free one-hour call to address high-level questions and explore your organization’s needs. This consultation will help frame preliminary opportunities, challenges as well as potential solutions and partners for developing or participating in a sandbox.

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