Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

The BD4M Studio Report shares the strategies developed by participants, as well as several key takeaways they deemed important for the systematic, sustainable, and responsible re-use of data to create positive outcomes in the field of migration — in West Africa and more broadly:

1. Establishing a Common Vocabulary
2. Building the Technical, Financial, and Legal Capacity of Local Stakeholders
3. Defining Business Models 
4. Developing a Sustainability Strategy
5. Clarifying Jurisdictional Implications
6. Developing an Ethical Framework