Headquartered in New Delhi, India, working across the globe.
DataLEADS is an award-winning digital media and technology company committed to helping people understand and engage with the world around them.
For over a decade, our work has stood at the intersection of data and storytelling, encompassing large-scale capacity-building and training programs—including AI readiness training for the workforce—curriculum development, pioneering trust and safety interventions, shaping public policy, conducting media research, and developing digital tools, data hubs, and dashboards—all to strengthen the information ecosystem and amplify Asian voices on a global stage.
This coffee table book chronicles our odyssey. Through stories and photographs, it opens a window into our work, our people, and the defining moments of a mission dedicated to making information, accessible, and a tool for human empowerment.
We invite you to experience our journey captured in these pages.



” THE GLOBAL INFORMATION LANDSCAPE is rapidly changing and affecting our lives and communities. Today, for the first time in human history, we are producing more information than we can absorb. This surge in information poses new challenges, but also creates avenues for innovation. The challenge we are faced with is to effectively leverage data into actionable insights. We must prepare for a data-driven future. “
Syed Nazakat
CEO and Founder
” THE GLOBAL INFORMATION LANDSCAPE is rapidly changing and affecting our lives and communities. Today, for the first time in human history, we are producing more information than we can absorb. This surge in information poses new challenges, but also creates avenues for innovation. The challenge we are faced with is to effectively leverage data into actionable insights. We must prepare for a data-driven future. “






Our work is globally recognised with a number of awards, including the prestigious British Medical Journal Award, the Membership Puzzle Project award by the New York University, and awarded Fact Checking Innovation Initiative by Facebook Journalism Project and International Fact-Checking Network. DataLEADS runs First Check, a flagship fact-checking initiative powered by the global collaboration that brings together medical professionals, researchers, journalists, and technologists to combat health misinformation. It is a verified signatory of the IFCN.











Our work is globally recognised with a number of awards, including the prestigious British Medical Journal Award, the Membership Puzzle Project award by the New York University, and awarded Fact Checking Innovation Initiative by Facebook Journalism Project and International Fact-Checking Network. DataLEADS runs First Check, a flagship fact-checking initiative powered by the global collaboration that brings together medical professionals, researchers, journalists, and technologists to combat health misinformation. It is a verified signatory of the IFCN.






























































The GNI India Training Network is an initiative led by DataLEADS to support journalists, fact-checkers and media educators across India in their fight against misinformation.
FactShala is a news and information literacy programme run by DataLEADS with support from the Google News Initiative.
The OCRI is implemented by DataLEADS in partnership with the Centre for Investigative Journalism, London to emphasize the importance of reporting on climate change.
A media literacy initiative for students in Bihar led by DataLEADS, in partnership with The Mercury Project and with support from JEEViKA, Government of Bihar.