Build practical privacy skills, strengthen your professional readiness and learn to translate privacy requirements into effective organisational practices.
Data Privacy Council (DPCI) is an initiative of Paryoma Foundation, a Section 8 not-for-profit institution
DPCI builds practical privacy implementation capabilities, enhances professional employability and advances digital trust through education, competency assessment, research, academic partnerships and industry collaboration.
To build practical privacy capability by connecting people, learning, competency assessment, technology practice and industry needs—enabling professionals and organisations to translate privacy requirements into effective processes, controls and evidence.
An India where privacy capability is embedded in every organisation, supported by skilled professionals, accountable practices and trusted digital relationships.
A developing initiative connecting learning, practice and collaboration.
Build the knowledge to make informed privacy decisions.
Develop a practical, evidence-led approach to professional competence.
Connect perspectives across disciplines and organisations.
Turn shared learning into useful implementation resources.
Bring privacy capability into workplaces and classrooms.
Two developing credentials for different stages of professional practice.
Foundation · Privacy Governance
Certified Privacy Governance Associate
Build foundational knowledge of privacy principles, India’s DPDP framework, organisational accountability and governance practices.
Understand requirements, recognise responsibilities and apply judgement to defined scenarios.
Advanced · Privacy Implementation
Certified Privacy Implementation Professional
Develop the capability to translate privacy requirements into working processes, controls and implementation evidence.
Design workflows, implement controls and explain supporting evidence.
CPGA and CPIP have distinct proposed assessment pathways. CPGA is not currently a stated mandatory prerequisite for CPIP.
Strengthen your privacy implementation skills and professional readiness across compliance, legal, risk, audit and technology roles.
Explore your pathwayBuild capability across business, technology, cybersecurity and data teams.
Discuss team learningConnect education with privacy practice through applied learning, faculty engagement and industry collaboration.
Explore collaborationConnect academic learning with practical privacy skills and prepare for opportunities in privacy and related fields.
Discover learningLearning designed around the work privacy professionals need to do.
Our planned formats connect essential concepts with scenarios, implementation exercises and meaningful discussion.
Help shape a community built on shared knowledge, practical experience and responsible practice.
We aspire to bring practitioners, employers, academics and institutions together as an industry body. This is a developing initiative, and we welcome early expressions of interest.
We invite founding community participants and collaborators to help inform DPCI’s developing programmes.
Data Privacy Council is a privacy capacity-building and industry-engagement initiative of Paryoma Foundation, a Section 8 not-for-profit institution. It connects professional education, competency assessment, research, academic partnerships and industry collaboration. DPCI is a private initiative, not a government or regulatory authority.
Certified Privacy Implementation Professional (CPIP) is a proposed practitioner-focused credential designed to assess practical privacy implementation capability. It is in development. Fees, eligibility, assessment arrangements and launch dates have not been finalised.
DPCI welcomes interest from privacy, compliance, legal, risk, audit, technology and data-governance professionals, enterprises, academic institutions and students. Online enquiries are not yet enabled; visitors can prepare and download an enquiry from the relevant programme or contact page.
