Google and the United Nations system have collaborated to introduce a public information initiative. The organizations announced that "Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons" as an accessible digital resource. The release establishes "a new open platform" intended to share institutional figures with the public.
The primary objective of the service centers on user accessibility and retrieval. According to the announcement, the system focuses on "making global statistics accessible and easy to search." The project operates openly to facilitate the discovery of broad statistical metrics across global issues.