Transitions
Tunisia's Date Exports: One Dollar of Water in Every Two
The fossil water behind Tunisia's exported dates is worth about half the revenue those exports earn — and falling water-per-tonne is hiding rising extraction.
Program
Public Data Infrastructure
How can public data become usable, trustworthy, and AI-ready?
Open-data access, MCP tools, AI-ready public datasets, data audits, and source-grounded access infrastructure.
Public data is increasingly read through AI assistants, yet most open-data portals were never built for that interface — formats, metadata, and access patterns assume a human downloading a file. This program builds the connective layer that makes public datasets directly addressable by AI clients, and audits how ready those sources actually are. The aim is access that is immediate, verifiable, and grounded in the original source rather than a model's recollection.
Tools & publications
Full Library →Public Data
Dam Levels Data, Ontology and MCP Server
Eleven years of Tunisia's daily dam bulletins (2014–2025) as an audited open dataset, a linked ontology and a read-only MCP server.
Public Data
tanitmap-ai
The first agentic map for Tunisian agricultural data — ask in natural language, get a chart, map, table, or short text in return.
Public Data
ONEM MCP
A qualifier-aware MCP server over Tunisia's national energy statistics (2010–2026), derived from public ONEM reports.
Public Data
INS MCP
Ask Tunisia's national statistics in plain language — an MCP server over the INS data portal.
AI & Governance
Importing Intelligence: What Production-Centric AI Sovereignty Misses
A political-economy analysis of LLM token flow: dependence is concentrating in the flow layer — the gates every inference request must clear — not in who produces models.
Public Data
agridata MCP
A Model Context Protocol server connecting LLM clients to Tunisia's open agricultural data.
Work with us on this program
Researchers, institutions, and funders who want to contribute to this program — through data, a partner challenge, or a collaboration — can reach the studio via the Get Involved page.