FAQ: What is the long-term sustainability model for Mozilla Data Collective?

We are a mission-driven, community-centred tech organisation being incubated within Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Data Collective anticipates that we will have both social enterprise and non-profit components eventually, as we think that in today’s volatile, politicised grant funding environment, it’s never been more important to be independent. 

Our business model is simple, ethical and transparent. In the future, if you choose to ask for financial contributions to make use of your dataset, we will charge the downloader a 5% platform fee. That’s it! This will help cover the platform development, storage and hosting costs. One day, we may ask those using datasets at scale - such as major corporations - to pay a bit more for an enterprise-grade API.