- A lively community. This includes **builders, data scientists, OCEAN holders**, and **Ocean Ambassadors**. Ocean's community is active on **social media**.
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Data can be on Azure or AWS, Filecoin or Arweave, REST APIs or smart contract feeds. Data may be raw AI training data, feature vectors, trained models, even AI model predictions, or non-AI data.
This enables one buy & sell private data, while preserving privacy
- Private data is valuable: using it can improve research and business outcomes. But concerns over privacy and control make it hard to access.
- Compute-to-Data (C2D) grants access run compute against the data, _on the same premises of the data_. Only the results are visible to the consumer. The data never leaves the premises. Decentralized blockchain technology does the handshaking.
- C2D enables people to sell private data while preserving privacy, as an opportunity for companies to monetize their data assets.
- C2D can also be used for data sharing in science or technology contexts, with lower liability risk, because the data doesn't move.
The Ocean ecosystem also contains many data scientists and OCEAN holders, excited about the future of AI & data. You can find them doing predictions, data challenges, Data Farming, and more.
Follow Ocean on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/OceanProtocol) or [Telegram](https://t.me/oceanprotocol_community) to keep up to date. Chat directly with the Ocean community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/TnXjkR5). Or, track Ocean progress directly on [GitHub](https://github.com/oceanprotocol).
Finally, the [Ocean blog](https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/) has regular updates.
