Community-driven funding model

With its continued growth over the past 15 years—in terms of Tier-1 membership, increased collaboration with Partners contributing in-kind to the project, and reliance on the thriving SDMX community as its bedrock—the Community has reached a maturity level where core resources allow not only to coordinate the Community, maintain and support its main products (.Stat Suite and .Stat Academy), but also secure a “baseline scenario” in terms of new features, architecture evolution and enhancements. But, as new technologies emerge, the need for more frontier R&D requires further co-investment which the Community is well-placed to pool and coordinate, with also more Partners, including from the private sector, involved in the cooperative efforts.