Building Power through Data-Sharing: Issues and Opportunities for Environmental Health and Justice Funders

This paper is intended to provide environmental health and justice funders with background information that may be helpful in considering investments to increase data-sharing. It notes relevant trends in open data and technology, highlights examples of data-sharing within the environmental health and justice movement, and provides lessons for funders.

 

The paper was produced for a June 2014 meeting of environmental health and justice funders and therefore focuses on examples within that field. Many of the issues outlined also may have broader applicability for funding data-sharing in other social movements.