We are experts

We are the technology arm of institutions, organisations and communities, so you can create, manage and publish open data with our tools.

The Open Knowledge Foundation has experts worldwide providing services related to our pipeline of tools for open knowledge. In other words, our tech services are vehicles to sustain our work, test our innovations and escalate the impact of our technical tools, models, and policies across different organisations and institutions.

We have extensive experience and expertise related to legal, technological and community aspects of open data and have provided consultancy, research, community management and technology solutions for a wide range of international clients.

What kind of tech services do we provide?

General Needs Assessment We help you discover what your organisation needs to improve how you store, publish and share data and other information.

Adoption Services We provide the tools, standards and methodologies to fulfil your institutions' needs regarding adapting open knowledge.

Tailored-made Solutions We can provide any specific services to reduce friction and activate the power of sharing data for your institutions’ efforts.

List of Tech Services

Open Your Data We solve the technical, social and legal challenges of opening up data. We can work with you to understand your needs, develop open data strategies, and establish best practices.

We can assist your organisation work with open data. This includes designing architectures with existing open source tools as well as bottom up designs specifically made for your organisation.

Bespoke Technical Solutions We can assist your organisation work with open data. This includes designing architectures with existing open source tools as well as bottom up designs specifically made for your organisation.

Your Own CKAN We will install and deploy a basic (out of the box) CKAN instance on your own infrastructure, including 3 plugins you select.

We will install and deploy a basic (out of the box) CKAN instance on our infrastructure for your organisation, we will then manage the updates and hosting for you.

CKAN Maintaining and Hosting We will install and deploy a basic (out of the box) CKAN instance on our infrastructure for your organisation, we will then manage the updates and hosting for you.

We can install and deploy a bespoke CKAN instance for your organisation, including full customisation, whichever existing plugins you like as well as options to make or adapt plugins for your needs.

Bespoke CKAN Hosting We can install and deploy a bespoke CKAN instance for your organisation, including full customisation, whichever existing plugins you like as well as options to make or adapt plugins for your needs.

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Our Tech Tools

CKAN

The world's leading open source data management system. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and discover data. It powers hundreds of data portals worldwide including governments, NGOs, research centres and enterprises.

03/06/2023

Frictionless Data

For anyone who works with complex data or across tools or teams (researchers, data scientists, engineers, and decision-makers), this open-source toolkit brings simplicity to the data experience through software and standards.

03/06/2023