Development Seed helps governments, NGOs, and development agencies to solve complex issues with open data and open technologies.
General company ifno:
Year of founded: 2004
Zip Code: 20001
Employees: 1-10
In sector: Governance
Revenue Sources: Data analysis for clients, Database licensing, Custom open source software development
Social Impact:
Description:
Development Seed is a creative strategy and engineering team that helps empower citizens and organizations with tools and data to solve complex issues and make better decisions. We are an integrated team of strategists, designers, and developers that work to solve the challenging development and governance issues with real solutions.
We are a small team that has implemented some of the largest open data projects in international development. We work together with our partners to solve complex communications challenges using data visualizations, interactive web content, and custom applications. Our work runs the spectrum of identifying key problems, strategizing opportunities, building solutions, and designing communications. At our core, we are engineers building incredibly fast and flexible open source tools that provide the foundation for our solutions. This approach allows us to tackle large scale projects in record time, whether that’s taking the World Bank from concept to site launch with data.worldbank.org, helping Internews and NAI expose patterns of violence against journalists on the ground in Afghanistan, or building open.undp.org, the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship project portal.
Financial Info:
Development Seed was founded in 2004 and has worked since then to help governments and development agencies to better utilize open source technology and open data. Development Seed has ranged from 3-40 people over that time. Development Seed has created or supported the development of technologies and services ranging from Drupal, OpenStreetMaps, Node.js, Jekyll and Prose, and Mapbox. Recently Mapbox received 10M in investment and spun out into a separate company.