Sponsor a dataset — funding access to data

The principle

Three interests that meet in the same place

🎓Students and researchers

They have the questions and the time, but rarely the means to reach prepared data.

🏦Businesses and institutions

They are looking for a concrete societal contribution, visible and verifiable — not a logo on a banner.

🗂Atmart Data

They can open more data, but cannot finance the opening of the whole catalogue alone.

What sponsorship finances exactly

The work of making the data available: identifying and negotiating sources, extraction, cleaning, harmonisation, variable dictionary, data sheet in four languages, hosting, and user support for the duration of the programme.

Arrangements

Five ways to sponsor

Arrangement	What is financed	What the sponsor gains	Contribution range
Sponsoring a dataset	Opening or updating one specific dataset	Permanent mention on the dataset sheet, visibility before a qualified audience	1 500 – 4 000 $
Dissertation data grant	Full access for a group of students on one theme	Support for training, indirect watch on the sector	≈ $1,000 / 10 students
Research pack	A batch of datasets for a faculty or a laboratory, over one year	Lasting institutional anchoring, collective impact	3 000 – 8 000 $
Thematic cohort	One year of work on a sector: agriculture, finance, employment, health, territories	Expertise positioning, knowledge production on its own market	from $10,000
Applied research fund	A pooled contribution, allocated by a committee	Lasting impact, effort shared with other contributors	from $500

Indicative ranges: the real amount depends on the volume of sources to process, the update frequency and the duration of opening. Every sponsorship gets a detailed quotation and a written agreement.

Catalogue

The datasets waiting for a sponsor

These datasets are not ideas: the sources are identified, the method is written, what is missing is the funding of the preparation work. Each one immediately serves several disciplines.

If the amount is not reached, the contribution is neither returned nor held in waiting: it opens the reduced version of the dataset, described below before any payment. That version is public and free like any sponsored open data, and the sponsor is credited in the same way. One single rule sets this scope — we go down one territorial notch: a dataset promised at commune level opens at department level, a network we wanted to extend is kept up to date without extension.

Dataset	Sources identified	Whom it would serve	Opening	If the amount is not reached
Profile of Haiti's 140 communes — priority 1	Territorial reference already published, completed by sector sources	Planning, NGOs, donors, local authorities, data journalism	≈ 6 000 $	The profile of the 10 departments, on the same sources and the same dictionary. Going down to the 140 communes remains open to later funding.
Market prices — national coverage and monthly updates	CNSA, FEWS NET	Agronomy, food security, economics, humanitarian NGOs, journalists	≈ $2,500 + $1,200/year for updates	The current sentinel network of 9 markets, kept up to date for twelve months, without extension to new markets.
Haiti economic indicators (2000–2025)	World Bank, IMF, BRH	Economics, management, finance, business plans, advocacy	≈ 2 000 $	The annual national series, without departmental breakdown or monthly series.
Education in Haiti by department	MENFP, UNESCO UIS, World Bank	Education sciences, public policy, education NGOs	≈ 2 500 $	The indicators at the level of the 10 departments, without going down to the commune.
Public health by department	MSPP, WHO/PAHO, EMMUS surveys	Public health, epidemiology, health planning	≈ 3 000 $	The indicators at the level of the 10 departments, without going down to the commune.

A theme that interests you is not listed? Propose it: if the sources exist and the use is real, we will look into it.

Benefits

What the sponsor receives — and what it does not buy

It receives

A permanent mention on the dataset sheet and on the programme page.
An annual usage report: downloads, disciplines, universities, work produced.
The list of dissertations and research supported thanks to the sponsored dataset.
Professional access to the same dataset for its own teams.
The opportunity to present the programme at a workshop with the students.
A ready-to-publish communication document, in French, Creole and English.

What it does not buy

The content of the conclusions: the researcher stays free, even if the result is inconvenient.
Any right of review or veto over the work produced.
Exclusivity on the opened data: it is open, therefore open to everyone.
The choice of individual beneficiaries, which belongs to the selection committee.
The personal data of students or researchers.

The rule that makes the programme credible

A sponsor finances a research capacity, not a conclusion. This separation is written into every agreement. Without it, the work coming out of the programme would be worth nothing — neither scientifically nor reputationally, sponsor included.

Sequence

From agreement to publication of the work

Choosing the dataset or theme — from the catalogue above, or on the sponsor's proposal.
Quotation and agreement — scope, duration of opening, amount, benefits, independence rules.
Preparing the dataset — extraction, cleaning, documentation, data sheet, publication.
Call for applications — circulated by the partner universities and on this site.
Selection — by a committee, on academic criteria: relevance of the topic, feasibility, capacity to use the data.
Access and support — sponsored licence, hands-on workshop, methodological support.
Follow-up — milestones, deliverables, abstracts filed at the defence.
Recognition — publication of the work, usage report given to the sponsor, public mention of the cohort.

Contact

Discuss a sponsorship

Tell us what interests you: a specific dataset, a sector, a university, or simply the general idea. We come back with a costed proposal and a model agreement.