UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents

The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.

Called the UN System Data Commons , the new system is built on Google’s open-source Data Commons platform and lets people search for statistics from across UN agencies using natural-language queries. It replaces the existing UNData portal , where users largely had to browse and search for statistics through a more traditional database interface. The new platform also supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard that allows AI systems to connect directly to external data sources.