Climate and Health Data Capacity Accelerator

To transform the social impact sector and enable it to truly benefit from the data revolution, we must address how we educate, train, and upskill social impact talent. data.org is launching a global Capacity Accelerator Network (CAN) program to create data science capacity hubs in the Global South that will train the next generation of data professionals with the interdisciplinary skills needed to be successful to work at the intersection of climate and health. $6.8m (£5m) would fund CAN, launching two new Data Capacity Accelerators focused on climate and health data in the Global South (India in collaboration with J-PAL South Asia; sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data) and strengthening the international reach and scale of the Network of Networks model.

As the central hub, data.org will serve as the point of connection and coordination and as an impact amplifier for the local accelerators by converting investment in training hundreds of climate and health data experts locally into training many thousands globally through open-source resources housed on data.org, giving the program the kind of scale and sustainability each local accelerator will not be able to achieve on their own.