Carolina Rossini, Director for Partnerships and Research, Datasphere Initiative How to responsibly unlock the value of data to improve education for all? Digital transformation is taking place across sectors and as many aspects of life now rely on online connections, the amount of data generated daily continues to grow at exponential rates. …

Natalia Loungou, Events & Communications Coordinator, Datasphere Initiaitve Ana Laura Martínez, Coordinadora de Cooperación Técnica para América Latina y Países Africanos de Lengua Oficial Portuguesa, Cetic.br |NIC.br. Fernando Rojas, Asesor Senior de Asuntos Económicos, Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL) A new data ecosystem based on a wide array of…

Gabriel Araújo Souto, Fellow, Datasphere Initiative Introduction Data drive innovation across the private sector and help companies become more efficient, closing supply and demand gaps in technology, infrastructure, and labor skills. Through data governance boards, companies can resolve disputes, such as disagreements between different business units over data definitions and formats…

Today few mechanisms exist to bridge policy silos and the gaps between technology developments and regulatory frameworks. This explains the struggle to address the challenges of our data-driven society and responsibly unlock the value of data. Taking stock of lessons learned from the uses of open data across projects related…

As COP27 kicked off in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt last week, many are discussing the potential of data to help us meet and more specifically track climate objectives. …

From October 2021 to October 2022, 8 researchers and early career scholars from 8 countries participated in the Datasphere Initiative’s first Fellowship Program exploring the concept of the Datasphere and identifying ways it can be applied to evolving data governance challenges. Fellows had diverse academic and professional backgrounds including international…

Christian Perrone, Fellow, Datasphere Initiative As the story goes, after the storm, the mighty and strong oak, torn up, questions how the feeble and flexible reeds were still standing. …

Asaf Lubin¹, Datasphere Initiative Fellow, Datasphere Initiative As an inaugural fellow in the Datasphere initiative I have spent significant time thinking about the role of data governance in national security crises, particularly in times of armed conflicts. The production, collection, and dissemination of data serves many functions in war. It…

Magdalena Ewa Jozwiak, Fellow, Datasphere Initiative In one of their previous blog post Bertrand de La Chapelle and Lorrayne Porciuncula conceptualized Datasphere as a complex system where massive amounts of data, people, and norms interact. …