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Navigating Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Age of AI

A discussion with members of our Indigenous Steering Committee

Identifying A Global Demand: Inside the Applications to our Indigenous Languages Incubator

A first look at who applied to the New Commons Incubator — and the demand it revealed

New Commons Incubator Webinar: Data Commons to Support Indigenous Languages and Cultures

What Our Repository Reveals About Data Commons in the AI Era

Defining Data Commons: A Framework for Assessing Shared Data Resources

New Resource: Data Commons FAQ

New Commons Incubator Launches to Support Indigenous-Led Language and Cultural Data Commons in the Age of AI

Advancing Data Governance for AI Innovation: Insights from the 2025 New Commons Challenge Event

Building the Future of Public-Interest AI: Certi Amazônia Institute and NYU Peace Research Announced as Winners of the New Commons Challenge

Signals of Demand: What the New Commons Challenge Tells Us About the Need and Opportunity of Data Commons

With over 170 applicants spread across six continents and countless sectors, it’s clear that there is an urgent need for resources to develop data commons.

Data Commons: The Missing Infrastructure for Public Interest Artificial Intelligence

The data winter ins't just a technical glitch. It's a structural failure. What we urgently need is new infrastructure: data commons.

The New Commons Challenge: Advancing AI for Public Good through Data Commons

The Open Data Policy Lab—a collaboration between Microsoft and The GovLab—is seeking out interesting ideas on how data commons might be used to support AI for local decision-making and generative AI.

Launch: A Blueprint to Unlock New Data Commons for Artificial Intelligence

To accelerate the creation of data commons, The Open Data Policy, today, releases “A Blueprint to Unlock New Data Commons for AI”—a guide on how to steward data to create data commons that enable public-interest AI use cases.