CODATA promotes global collaboration to improve the availability and usability of data on the principle that data produced by research and susceptible to be used for research should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary.  CODATA works to advance interoperability and usability of such data: research data should be intelligently open or FAIR. The group is working particularly in three important global challenges: infectious disease, sustainable cities, and disaster risk reduction: www.codata.org/task-groups/linked-open-data-for-global-disaster-risk-research