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Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance

Powering the green transition in emerging economies with investor-grade data

The Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance (DSMDA) serves as a convening platform engaging governments, regulators, financial institutions, and other stakeholders to build the robust climate and natural capital open-source data ecosystems market actors need to access green finance, carbon markets, and comply with statutory reporting demands.  

The establishment of these investor-grade data ecosystems is critical to resolving current data challenges that undermine the development of new markets and flow of capital needed to power the green transition in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Working across diverse country contexts, the DSMDA designs and tests replicable models while building networks that drive adoption in LMICs across the globe. Our approach prioritizes collaboration, open source solutions for public good, digital-first design, data integrity, modularity and interoperability, and financial sustainability.  

The Alliance engages in initiatives that advance the mission of the Alliance and where the team can fill gaps and bring new added value with open data standards that allow data to flow like water.


Current priority initiatives of the DSMDA include


Climate and natural capital data and market infrastructure 

The DSDMA will leverage its position as a neutral convenor with deep global expertise and a long history of working across multi-sector, governmental, and regulatory settings to address strategic breaks and bottlenecks in the investor-grade data value chain and market infrastructure for both climate and natural capital. This work will focus on promoting alignment of open standards, accounting methodologies,  and governance frameworks that currently prevent the development of trusted, scalable, and interoperable systems.

Leadership

Catherine Atkin

Senior Fellow

Climate Data Collaborative

Data Foundation

Ben MacDonald

Senior Fellow

Climate Data Collaborative

Data Foundation

Liv A. Watson

Senior Fellow

Climate Data Collaborative

Data Foundation

Global Expert Advisors

Tanuj Agarwal

MENA

Urmish Mehta

MENA

Dag Drevvatne

Nordic countries

Andon Rumenov

North Macedonia

Caitlin Nash

South Africa

Biljana Braithwaite

Western Balkans

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