Last month, our colleagues in The Center for Technology and National Security Policy hosted the Socio-Cultural Data Evaluation Summit.  

The  two-day event brought together professionals from government, industry and academia to discuss information sharing, datasets, and the metrics needed to deal with non-traditional data.  

DataCards is an attempt to promote discovery and sharing of data sources in support of irregular warfare and socio-cultural analysis, assessment, and modeling.  The project focuses on data sources around the world and each source has its own "card" (like a baseball card) that provides a brief description of the source of data.The summit was successful in identifying and prioritizing courses of action for filling data gaps and making cards more searchable. We highly encourage you to join this effort to create a community where socio-cultural data can be shared.

To request an account for DataCards, please email help@datacards.org.