Open Knowledge Foundation

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

We will help you discover to what extent your infrastructure is truly open. This assessment is the first step for organisations that compile data, and want to make it openly available.
Openness Assessment We will help you discover to what extent your infrastructure is truly open. This assessment is the first step for organisations that compile data, and want to make it openly available.
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.
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 will install and deploy a basic (out of the box) CKAN instance on your own infrastructure, including 3 plugins you select.
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 help you choose open technologies and data standards so that your organisation's goals can be met with third-party participation and control.
Open Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) We help you choose open technologies and data standards so that your organisation's goals can be met with third-party participation and control.

Training Services

Together with the School of Data community, we offer a range of general and bespoke courses on the use of open solutions.
Open Literacy Training Together with the School of Data community, we offer a range of general and bespoke courses on the use of open solutions.
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Examples of Our Work

Working with UNHCR to better collect, archive and re-use data about some of the world’s most vulnerable people
CKAN Working with UNHCR to better collect, archive and re-use data about some of the world’s most vulnerable people Learn more
Facilitating data validation and reuse for eLife research community
CKAN Facilitating data validation and reuse for eLife research community Learn more
Picture by Markus Spiske at Unsplash
Frictionless Data Validating tabular data with Dryad to make scientific research reproducible Learn more
Pipelines for accelerating ocean scientific discovery with BCO-DMO - Picture by NOAA at Unsplash
Frictionless Data Pipelines for accelerating ocean scientific discovery with BCO-DMO Learn more

Some of the organisations we have worked with:

Let's build together a world where all knowledge is accessible to everyone
Let's work together and make all knowledge
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