Interesting report on data stewardship, tells me that stewardship concepts should be part of a (not just technology-focused) data literacy approach.

The Ada Lovelace Institute published a report exploring 3 legal mechanisms that could help facilitate responsible data use and management: Data Trusts, Data Cooperatives, and Corporate & Contractual Mechanisms.

Published at the European Data Summit, this report focused on providing recommendations to new organizations and tools to reign big tech. Teemu commented that similarities are found between MyData movements.

An unofficial whitelist and blacklist of practices of data gatekeepers.

John Wunderlich shared the huge collections of projects and publications in the data stewardship field.

"A data steward is a role within an organization responsible for utilizing an organization's data governance processes to ensure fitness of data elements - both the content and metadata" - Definition from Wikipedia

One of the biggest concerns, given data is an intangible and valuable asset, is how business models can be structured so that stewards remain incentivized to serve the interests of individuals and communities, and do not use the data for their own ends. Data is a complex resource, and to understand potential revenue models of a steward, this paper studies resources or assets which embody the complexity of data and the accompanying ethical issues of protection.
You may also want to have a look at "Understanding data stewardship: taxonomy and use cases" from the same source.