data.world is a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to democratize access to the world's data and to accelerate the open data movement by providing a platform that improves community, connectivity, and collaboration around data.
Priorities as a partner of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
An analog for what data.world is doing in data is what GitHub achieved in code and open source, making it easier for distributed groups to collaborate on data projects while providing a platform to share some of their data for the benefit of the community.
Our approach is that bringing data out of its various silos and making it easier to understand while better connecting people who work in data will dramatically accelerate our ability to solve many of the world's most important problems.