The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a research community organization started in 2013 by the European Commission, the American National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Department of Innovation. Its goal is to build social and technical infrastructure to enable the open sharing of data. The RDA is a major recipient of support in the form of grants from all of its constituent members' governments. As of September 2016, the RDA has over 4,300 individual members from 111 countries.