data stewardship activity data residency Physical or geographic location of an organisation’s data or information. Data residency also refers to the legal or regulatory requirements imposed on data based on the country or region in which it resides. Cloud computing, which allows organisations to deliver hosted services over the Internet, can create data residency concerns. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5214-4466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2687-1982