In parallel, global protests against the mistreatment of black people and other communities of colour forced the humanitarian sector (and beyond) to reflect on its own operations, including re-evaluating neo-colonial approaches to humanitarian assistance, as well as to refocus on placing end-users at the centre of programme and including people receiving aid in making decisions which affect their lives, as stipulated in work-stream six of the Grand Bargain commitments. As humanitarian assistance continues its shift to digital, there are growing calls to move beyond anecdotal accounts about mobile penetration and its use in humanitarian contexts, towards a more evidence-based understanding of how people in humanitarian contexts are currently accessing and using mobile technology, the barriers they encounter and most importantly their own preferences for digital tools. Data is essential for organisations digitising products and services, to ensure that this process is effective, appropriate and equitable. Following publication of The Digital Lives of Refugees (published in 2019 in partnership with the UNHCR Innovation Service) and subsequent engagement with stakeholders, it became clear that there is an appetite and unmet need amongst many humanitarians and organisations providing digital services in humanitarian contexts for such data.