About
Data infrastructure is critical infrastructure
The premise
The meta-layer
Every macro and micro study, every intervention, every budget line rests on a prior question: does the underlying data exist, and can it be trusted?
In much of the world the honest answer is no. Census rounds slip, municipal budgets are published as scanned images, price series break mid-decade, registries sit behind counters rather than endpoints. Research adapts by proxying, modelling and guessing — and policy inherits the error.
So the Global Data Project works one level below the research. We measure the state of data infrastructure jurisdiction by jurisdiction, publish what already exists in usable form, and treat every gap we document as a construction plan rather than a footnote.
Elsinore Data Company
The wider mission
Today, AI is blind to much of the world. While the frontiers of science and technology propel us forward, emerging economies are left behind by a widening data deficit. Elsinore Data Company was built to bridge that gap by building the infrastructure where it is needed most — from datasets to data centres — so this technological revolution serves all of humanity.
We work alongside local communities in conflict zones and underdeveloped markets to build the data infrastructure they need: not to extract value, but to create it. We are there on the ground, which is what makes the work sustainable — and it is grounded in values that put friendships first, alongside freedom of thought and free markets.
The vision is a more equitable, peaceful world produced by more considered design, development and deployment of technology — a world where the most marginalised voices have more than a voice, but a say. The Global Data Project is the public, measurable face of that work.
How the work moves
01
Measure
Score every jurisdiction on what public data actually exists, how it is published, and how usable it is once you have it. You cannot improve infrastructure nobody has surveyed.
02
Capture
Locate public records wherever they sit — portals, registries, gazettes, statistical bulletins, scanned documents — and pull them into a durable archive.
03
Structure
Normalise to shared schemas, resolve entities and jurisdictions, and document every field, unit and caveat so a number can be defended.
04
Serve
Publish through the repository, the observatory, and an API gateway so researchers, investors and agencies work from the same evidence base.
05
Hand over
Use demonstrated demand to propose official, sovereign-owned pipelines — the goal is national data infrastructure that outlives us, not a private moat.
Team
Who does the work
Forward-deployed research
Elsinore field teams
Anthropologists, technologists and product managers who live and work alongside the communities whose data is missing — remote villages, jungle settlements and fast-growing cities alike.
Pipelines and archive
Data engineering
Builds the ingestion, quality-scoring and storage layer behind the repository, from document capture and OCR through schema validation and release packaging.
Measurement and analysis
Observatory & policy
Maintains the country scorecards, tracks regulatory and statistical publication practice, and works with agencies on what a credible national data system looks like.
Named biographies for the standing team are published as each programme comes online. For attribution on a specific dataset or country scorecard, write to us and we will put you in touch with the people who collected it.
Contact
Work with us
We work with research teams who need hard-to-reach data, investors who need ground truth, and governments ready to own their own pipelines.
- General
- hello@elsinore.co
- Company
- Elsinore Data Company — elsinore.co
- Based in
- Washington, DC, USA — with field teams in market