Sustaining the climate-data ecosystem: How data-sharing platforms are funded, governed, and maintained

Report by the Digital Impact Alliance: “Governments, researchers, and communities are increasingly dependent on climate data for informed decision-making — from early-warning systems and municipal planning to agricultural insurance payouts. Yet keeping the platforms behind that data running is a challenge that gets far less attention than the data itself, as their infrastructure is easier to build than it is to maintain. DIAL’s prior research — Beyond the tipping point: How climate data can decide our future and Bridging the climate data deficit: Lessons from the frontlines — examined the governance models and use cases that make climate data valuable once it is available. This report turns to the question that sits upstream of both: what allows that data to remain available and usable over time…(More)”.