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One Hub, Strengthening Pacific Data

Launched by Pacific Community (SPC) in 2018 to unite resources and data efforts across the Pacific region.

Purpose: Build a sustainable, centralized hub for managing, sharing, and cataloguing Pacific datasets.

Initial Establishment Goals:

Fill Pacific data gaps with trusted, evidence-based information.
Act as a single-entry point for data from Pacific countries, partners, research, and private sector.
Support better data-driven decisions across the region.

Unique Value: Created and managed in the Pacific, by the Pacific—for the benefit of Pacific peoples.

Pacific Data Hub - The Pacific Community

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www.pacificdata.org

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Our Purpose: Data Agency and Empowerment

The Pacific Data Hub’s purpose is to empower Pacific nations and communities as active partners in their data journeys, not just recipients.

By connecting people, practice, and data, we support Navigators, Creators, and Stewards with the tools, trusted information, and frameworks needed to make informed decisions, drive innovation, and shape ethical, meaningful outcomes.

This empowerment is the springboard to action—transforming community needs into real ecosystem functions that deliver impact through co-design, robust governance, and accessible information.

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Communities of Practice we support

Navigators�

(Futures & Strategy�Communities)

National Planners, Policymakers, Community Leaders, Futures Designers

Creators

(Science & Innovation �Communities)

Scientists, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Social & Impact Enterprises CEOs

Stewards

(Data Governance & �Trust Communities)

Data Custodians, Information Managers, Policymakers, Community Advocates

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From Community Needs to Ecosystem Functions

To unlock real impact, the Pacific Data Hub transforms these community needs into actionable data products & services through its core ecosystem functions:

Action-Orientated Co-Design: Mobilising data and knowledge to solve real Pacific challenges

Data & AI Governance: Embedding trust and ethics in every step of this innovation co-design

Information & Data Management: Making the right data accessible and reliable for action

The bridge between communities and outcomes is our integrated ecosystem, ensuring that every community has the trusted data, tools, and support they need to build a resilient, innovative Pacific future.

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Action-Orientated Co-Design

Mobilises data and governance for real community-driven solutions, in the form of Data Collaboratives

Blends global evidence with Pacific cultural values and participatory models, for example the Pacific Pathfinder Tool.

Delivers training, co-designed pilots, and collaborative innovation tools, to ensure Data and Knowledge flows to and from Pacific communities

Global Evidence Foundations: Action Research

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Data Collaboratives

Our Action-oriented co-design functions as the catalyst for Data Collaboratives that comprise:

Joint Problem Definition: Diverse stakeholders clarify shared challenges that a combination of public and private Data Products can address,

Co-Ownership of Solutions: All collaborators participate in shaping the ways these Data Products will be sourced, shared, analysed, and turned into actionable products for mutual benefit.

Sustained Implementation: Through iterative prototyping, testing, and feedback, Data Collaboratives move from agreements on paper to real data flows and practical applications.

Global Evidence Foundation: GovLab Data Collaboratives & BoK on Collaborative Innovation Networks

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Data & AI Governance

Embeds trust, sovereignty, quality, and ethics throughout the Action-Orientated Co-Design process and wider ecosystem

Ensures Pacific-rooted governance frameworks and ethical guardrails for AI

Provides Certification & Training for cross-sector Data Stewards in the Pacific, enabling safe, culturally-relevant collaborative innovation

Global Evidence Foundation: Networked Governance

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Information & Data Management

Pacific Data, both Quantitative and Qualitative, is organised, discoverable, and secure.

Federated Metadata Catalogue - connects and navigates datasets and Data Products from a growing range of Data Platforms from across the Pacific, and beyond

Data is owned, stewarded, enriched, and reusable—foundation for trust, decisions making and real-world impact

Global Evidence Foundation: Data Mesh Framework

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Data-as-Product Design Mindset

We help our Creator Communities design with a “data-as-a-product” mindset.

Interactive Dashboards: Dynamic visual tools that allow users to explore fisheries stock data, energy usage statistics, or climate risk profiles.

Sectoral Statistical Reports: Automatically generated, regularly updated publications (e.g., economic, social and cultural indicators, agricultural outputs etc).

Thematic Data Portals: Topic-specific platforms, such as Digital Earth Pacific, dedicated to geospatial data visualization and analysis.

Insight Briefs & Decision Support Tools: Custom data summaries, scenario models, and policy analysis tools designed for Pacific planners and decision-makers.

Training Datasets for AI/ML: Curated, ethically governed, and de-identified Pacific datasets for AI development, e.g., marine species identification or disaster prediction models.

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Data Platforms (SPC)

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Platform Examples: Statistical Data

PDH.stat Platform

An interactive database and dissemination tool for official aggregated statistics (“indicators”) such as SDG metrics (poverty rates, violence against women, school enrolment).

Includes dashboards, and while most data comes from SPC’s Statistics for Development, it also incorporates select indicators from other SPC divisions (e.g. tuna stocks, Covid-19 vaccination). SDD manages data uploads for all divisions into this platform

PDH Microdata Library Platform

A repository of anonymized household and individual-level survey and census data.

Access is granted to researchers under varying conditions, from open downloads to requiring official permission from national statistical offices—depending on country and dataset.

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Resources and Operations

Hosted at SPC’s Information Systems Division, with a dedicated team of 9 people focused on curation of the Integrated Data Ecosystem for the Pacific.

This team supports Data Platform Teams to create actionable data products & services, and facilitates the establishment and dis-establishment of data collaboratives with the Pacific Data Steward Network

Currently funded via International Development Programs such as Pacific Statistics and Data Phase 2 (PSD II), and Climate and Biodiversity Smart Marine (CaB-Smart) funded by New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT).

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