The Open Data Tank Initiative services are available in a wide range of academic services & consultancy. Moreover, data solutions and specialized consultancies. ODT provides information design, data archive, and data management upon request. Free educational materials are available too. We believe in data for all and open source principles. Interactive events are one of our tools to encourage people to engage with data presentation, and Data is accessible! Workshops and training are designed for organizations and individual groups.

Training & workshops

1.  We provide support to local capacities interested in data research, documentation, and archiving through offering: 
2. Capacity building workshops, training, including entry-level data collection, processing, and data management workshops, coding and data mining techniques, designing and structuring archives.
3. Data Research Internship Program (DRIP), where six to12 interns are hired annually for a paid internship period between 1 to 3 months to gain experience in data management through their work on ODT research projects.
4. Upon finishing their internships, interns are encouraged to apply for entry-level jobs upon the availability of vacancies. 
5. We have advanced professional development for archivists and data specialists.

1. We provide data consultancy sessions and design data solutions (the first session and action plan are free). 
2. Designing, structuring, and executing data collection systems. 
3. We are developing thematic information management. 
4. We are conducting qualitative and quantitative coding. 
5. We are inviting data using quantitative sociological measures and tools. 
6. Indexing and indicator designing. 
7. Cataloging and archiving. 
8. Metadata management and publishing. 
9. We are formulating descriptive statistics. 
10. We are generating data visualizations. 

All offered workshops get implemented internally among the team to ensure that all team members are incentivized to do so. And that their skills are constantly developing. 

We offer them a free-of-charge data consultancy session to discuss possible data management and processing solutions.

Following this preliminary session, we propose a free-of-charge action plan detailing the actions needed for processing their data, a timeline of implementation to which we commit,  deliverables, and activity-based budgeting. 

Academic Collaborations  

 The Institute provides the opportunity to hold academic and research collaborations by hosting researchers and assisting them in the data collection required to complete their studies and research and by making available the financial resources as per the stipulations of the partnership/collaboration agreement. Collaborations do not entail a commitment by the Institute to edit or publish the content of research and studies. Instead, publishing and content remain the responsibility of the principal researchers.