The First Open-Source Composite
Digital Twin of Earth
and expand human knowledge.
The First Open-Source
Composite Digital Twin
of Earth
foster innovation, and expand human knowledge.
The CoTwin Foundation is a nonprofit, open-source initiative creating the world’s first true Composite Digital Twin — a fully integrated, real-time, geospatially accurate digital representation of the Earth and all that happens upon it. Unlike today’s isolated digital replicas, CoTwin unifies diverse data layers into one accessible digital ecosystem, empowering smarter decisions, accelerating innovation, and contributing to an infinitely expanding global repository of human knowledge.
Every dataset uploaded to CoTwin Foundation is automatically:
- Georeferenced (accurate spatial coordinates: latitude, longitude, altitude);
- Timestamped (capturing precise historical and real-time events);
- Categorized into clear sectors (urban, economic, environmental, medical, social, financial, security, agriculture, technical, and more);
- Clearly labelled by origin, maintaining transparency and accountability.
- Public (openly accessible): maximizing collaborative innovation and research.
- Private (monetized access): allowing contributors to generate revenue from their proprietary or sensitive data.
- Urban & Infrastructure: transportation, utilities, real estate, public services.
- Modelling & Simulation: including airports, air traffic control data, spatial data integration, live flight trackers, ADS-B data streams, and aviation charts such as Jeppesen Charts.
- Environmental & Climate: pollution tracking, climate risks, biodiversity, water, and air quality.
- Economic & Financial: market conditions, global trade, supply chain data, employment, investment flows.
- Energy & Resources: renewable energies, power grids, consumption patterns, natural resource management.
- Social & Demographic: population dynamics, societal behaviors, urbanization, migration trends.
- Agriculture & Food Supply: crop monitoring, food market trends, agricultural sustainability.
- Medical & Public Health: disease tracking, healthcare capacities, epidemiological models.
- Security & Safety: public safety, crime rates, disaster preparedness, emergency responses.
- Technical & Autonomous Systems: IoT, drones, autonomous vehicles, robotics data.
As more participants contribute, accuracy improves continuously, creating trust and a collective incentive to provide truthful data.
The Global Data Index (GDI) provides a real-time map of global data coverage, clearly showing which regions or sectors are rich or lacking in data. By highlighting these gaps, GDI drives data contributions from governments, businesses, and communities, ensuring continuous improvement, transparency, and smarter global development and investment decisions.
Community Empowerment
Residents gain real-time insights to manage local resources and challenges, improving healthcare, public safety, education, and environmental management.
Small and Medium Business Opportunities
Local businesses can leverage and monetize their data, creating new revenue streams previously available only to large corporations.
Individual Financial Participation
Citizens contribute valuable local data, democratizing the data economy and creating widespread economic participation.
- Monetization of Private DataContributors who choose to share privately-held datasets can directly monetize their data through CoTwin Foundation’s ecosystem.
- Visibility and
CredibilityOrganizations and individuals providing open-source data or tools gain enhanced recognition, leading to indirect revenue opportunities through partnerships and new business ventures. - Cost Reduction through Open-Source InfrastructureShared open-source tools and datasets significantly lower operational costs for participants.
- Monetization of Private DataContributors who choose to share privately-held datasets can directly monetize their data through CoTwin Foundation’s ecosystem.
- Visibility and CredibilityOrganizations and individuals providing open-source data or tools gain enhanced recognition, leading to indirect revenue opportunities through partnerships and new business ventures.
- Cost Reduction through Open-Source InfrastructureShared open-source tools and datasets significantly lower operational costs for participants.
innovators, and leaders shaping the future of data
integration.
CoTwin Foundation creates an ever-expanding digital archive that preserves humanity’s knowledge, culture, and experiences for future generations. Every event, object, subject, and interaction captured within CoTwin contributes to a dynamic, ever-growing historical archive, forming an infinite knowledge base that evolves with continuous data contributions. This vast and continuously updated resource will serve as a foundation for education, historical analysis, and societal progress, ensuring that no valuable insight is lost. By capturing the richness of human civilization, CoTwin fosters a shared digital heritage that connects past, present, and future generations.
Through this initiative, humanity gains a unified platform to understand itself better, improving decisions today, inspiring innovations tomorrow, and building a lasting, infinite record of our collective story.
© CoTwin Foundation 2025