Who we are
We build tools to help teams communicate. Development Seed is a unique mix of a strategic consultancy and an open source product development company. As you can see from some of our past projects, we specialize in implementing technology projects for large international development organizations and leading open source research and development initiatives.
On the consulting front, we partner closely with organizations to help them push the limits with their use of technology. We work with communications experts, economists, public health practitioners, crisis response experts, and product managers at organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, USAID, Human Rights Watch, the New America Foundation, and the National Democratic Institute to solve tough communications challenges. Over the past seven years this work has brought us to countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and Haiti to improve access to data and the impact of technology on the ground. While our subject matter expertise is mostly in international development, our technology capacity and experience is increasingly leading us to work with a range of government agencies and private sector enterprises. We are always looking for creative challenges and partners who want to innovate.
On the product front, our team leads the development of Open Atrium, an online team collaboration product and platform, Managing News, a news and data aggregator and visualization tool, and MapBox, a suite of open source tools that create beautiful custom maps in the cloud. Our R&D team is also developing an enterprise-grade web application deployment system called Aegir and a lightweight SMS gateway that runs on a USB drive called SlingshotSMS. All of these products are fully open source and freely downloadable.
The combination of our diverse product development experience and our bleeding edge work deploying custom open source tools is made possible by our incredible team. Our team includes some of the brightest and hardest working developers in the world, and because of this we are known for our leadership in several open source communities including Drupal, OpenLayers, and Mapnik.
We are passionate about building innovative tools that make the difference in mission-critical situations. Whether serving as strategists, implementers, or as a research and development operation, we constantly strive to bridge cutting edge technology with strategic impact to create tools that improve the day-to-day operations of our partners.