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The sudden shutdown of USAID is the most visible recent example of knowledge vanishing overnight. But that kind of loss is the exception. The rule is quieter and harder to track.

A webpage goes offline. A subscription lapses. A hard drive gets boxed up and forgotten in a cabinet nobody has the key to anymore. This is institutional neglect, and it's how most humanitarian data silently disappears.

To understand the risks our data faces, we need to map what we collect and use as a sector. Check out this public registry of humanitarian data, records and archives: hae-registry.baserow.site/registry