**Methodology** The Observatory provides a comprehensive, interactive, and free access online platform where actors and initiatives are mapped with the goal of field understanding and development, facilitating connection, convening, and collaboration, promoting responsible data sharing narratives and initiatives, and encouraging innovative practices across typically siloed communities and sectors. The ultimate goal is to facilitate access to collective intelligence and support community coordination, including with and among funders, towards better and more inclusive strategic engagement, policy action, and technology development for the digital society. The Datasphere Initiative’s Observatory is an expansion of the 2022 [Datasphere Governance Atlas](https://www.thedatasphere.org/programs/intelligence-hub/datasphere-governance-atlas/), and besides identifying more entities, it goes further to build their profiles into an interactive dashboard that supports intelligence extracting, such as field trends and gaps. The 2022 Atlas developed a database of 261 organizations that influence the data governance debate across sectors around the world. It focused on shedding light on the Datasphere conceptual element of “individuals and human groups,” defined as those who generate, collect, store, process, exchange, make accessible or access, analyze, and use data for various purposes. These actors also develop norms, processes, and infrastructures to support the actions and relations of the Datasphere. Distributed across the world, all these actors are interlinked in complex value chains and partnerships of various kinds. Specifically, for this initial version of the Observatory, the mapping of organizations was expanded in size and scope to not only new organizations working on data governance but also organizations working at the intersection of data and digital technologies as well as funders that support or are involved in the space. The Observatory database includes a total of 778 organizations, of which 420 have been categorized and profiled in depth. There are more than 100 topics that link the individual entities and organizations such as non-profits, think tanks, and other institutions and the 62 funding entities working on data governance and digital technologies. For the complete methodology, please refer to the [[2025 Datasphere Atlas]].