What is a sandbox?
Read the 5 minutes introduction to sandboxes.
The Global Sandboxes Forum brings together a community of practice to demonstrate the unique potential of sandboxes and foster the adoption of a more collaborative approach to address local and global challenges of the digital age.
It aims to empower public and private actors by sharing experiences, building capacity, developing evidence-based guidance on how to implement sandboxes, and catalyzing concrete initiatives at the local, national and regional levels to responsibly unlock the value of data for people and the planet.
Through online and physical events, the GSF brings together public authorities, private and civil society actors to share their experiences and understand their common challenges.
The GSF develops evidence-based research and tools, documenting successful implementations and best practices and providing capacity–building resources to empower stakeholders.
Fostering interactions, the GSF allows to identify concrete issues and catalyze cooperations among the relevant stakeholders needed to address them.
Database of sandboxes
The Sandbox Atlas
Report: Sandboxes for Data
Sandbox blogs
Courses
Toolkit (upcoming)
Inaugural meeting of the GSF at the G20 in Rio, 2024
Upcoming events
Tailored assistance for policy makers and regulators and the private sector
The GSF is a project led by the Datasphere Initiative together with a network of governments, companies, institutional partners and experts.