Source	Definitions
Treuhaft [24]	Defined as enabling community actors to access data and to use it to build community capacity to effect social change
Bellin et al. [25]	The ability of users to access all data using well-defined and easily used analytic patterns to answer unexpected questions without requiring preauthorization or special additional resources
Marr [26]	Everybody has access to data and there are no gatekeepers that create a bottleneck at the gateway to the data. It requires that we accompany the access with an easy way for people to understand the data so that they can use it to expedite decision-making and uncover opportunities for an organization. The goal is to have anybody use data at any time to make decisions with no barriers to access or understanding
Cornelissen [27]	The act of opening organizational data to as many employees as possible, given reasonable limitations on legal confidentiality and security
Zeng & Glaister [28]	Data democratization refers to facilitating the use of data by everyone in an organization.
Hyun et al. [29]	When organizational data is democratized and backed by a supportive culture, it promotes knowledge sharing and willingness to accept diversity in new knowledge that traditional job functions of employees did not realize
Mallik [30]	Data democratization is a process of making data accessible to everybody and easing the understanding of that data for expediting decision making and supporting the business process.
Daniel Mateus Pires [30]	The process of making data accessible in an organization: removing the barriers and bottlenecks between data—and anyone looking to build products, analytics or make decisions in a company
Lefebvre, Legner & Fadler [31]	Enterprise’s capability to motivate and empower a wider range of employees—not just data experts—to understand, find, access, use, and share data in a secure and compliant way
Awasthi & George [6]	“The act of opening organizational data to as many employees as possible, given reasonable limitations on legal confidentiality and security”
Awasthi & George [6]	“Provides an opportunity to transform employees from data users into citizen data scientists who provide valuable insights” “the sharing of data, skills, and responsibilities as the central thrust of data democratization”
Hertzano & Mahurkar [32]	The end goals of data democratization are to empower employees, promote accurate decision-making, and ultimately gain a competitive advantage
Choudhgurry [33]	An ongoing process of enabling everybody in an organization, irrespective of their technical know-how, to work with data comfortably, to feel confident talking about it, and, as a result, make data-informed decisions and build customer experiences powered by data.
Hinds et al. [34]	Enhances the mechanisms, improves the ease, and elevates the way in which people in the organization access and interact with data
Hinds et al. [34]	Is a philosophy of guiding data-informed decision-making by deliberately fostering access to and use of appropriate data throughout organizations. There are many policies, practices, approaches, and skills that need to be thoughtfully and intentionally developed to support data democratization responsibly
Samarasinghe, Lokuge, & Snell [35]	An ongoing process that broadens access to data and facilitates employees to find, access, self-analyze, and share data without additional support
Marinakis et al. [36]	data democratization is the process of bringing digital information to the average, non-expert end user. By doing so, the latter would be able to gather, process, and analyze data to reach critical conclusions (i.e., make decisions) without requiring outside help. The end goal is to transform people or employees into well-educated “data science citizens” (or “lay data scientists”)
Eichler et al. [37]	How a diverse set of enterprise-wide stakeholders formulated a risk-based data access approach to streamline access to anonymized clinical trial data and vastly improved its use by authorized research and development (R & D) associates within the company