Google has launched a new Lacuna Fund which is the world's first collaborative nonprofit effort to directly address the missing labeled data in the field of languages to health and agriculture and more. There is currently a lack of relevant, labeled data to represent and address the challenges that face much of the world's population. "To help close this gap, Google.org is making a $2.5 million grant alongside The Rockefeller Foundation, Canada's International Development Resource Center (IDRC) and Germany's GiZ FAIR Forward to launch Lacuna Fund," said Daphne Luong, Director, Google AI. The fund aims to unlock the power of machine learning by providing data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income communities around the world with resources to produce labeled datasets that address urgent problems, Google said in a statement this week. Machine learning has shown enormous promise for social good, whether in helping respond to global health pandemics or reach citizens before natural disasters hit.