Akvo

This organization aims to increase transparency and data-sharing in the international development sector. Akvo pursues this goal by providing services, like trainings or design consultations, and through their open source data platforms. Operating on a “not for profit, not for loss” basis, Akvo offers assistance at the “design” stage (e.g. deciding what data to collect), “capture” stage (e.g. training data collectors), “understand” stage (e.g. cleaning and analyzing data), and finally the “act” stage (e.g. sharing insights with relevant people). Open source tools like AkvoLumen or AkvoRSR encourage the consolidation of data from numerous sources and in different formats, allowing import of multiple file types and for the construction of specialized survey forms so that fisheries can collect the data they need.