How can we establish financially sustainable data collaboratives? The California Data Collaborative—an independent non-profit working as a coalition of agencies in California to facilitate data-centric water policy and operations—provides a model.

Athena Infonomics conducted a case study of the California Data Collaborative as part of a report commissioned by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, which investigates the landscape of data-sharing partnerships and identifies the key drivers of success. The case study examines the California Data Collaborative’s efforts to make water data analytics central to improved water management.