We've created an event registration service and data collection tool. This has enabled organisations, in the San Francisco Bay area to help more people gain access to citizenship advice. 

On 9th July 2001 six publishers signed the statement of intent that led to the development of Hinari, which provides developing countries with free or low-cost access to academic content.

Aptivate have been involved in its development since 2006.

Last year, Aptivate led a consortium of researchers and practitioners to explore the role of technology in citizen-engagement and participation in the development sector

How we at Aptivate help organisations and NGOs develop software applications using the iterative development approach called Agile in a user-centred approach

I'm excited to be travelling to Washington DC today to take part in a 3 day USAID co-creation workshop.

Participatory and practical workshop this week on effective evaluation of digital citizen engagement...

Are you an NGO struggling with questions or problems about using technology?  Join us for lunch and take advantage of our expert team to help you.  For free!

A month on, some interesting thoughts on ICTD2015 from an Aptivater who attended for the first time.

The bi-annual ICTD conference comes to Singapore this May, exploring issues relating to the use of information, communication technologies...

Technology for monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL): we need to address complexity, interoperability and affordability.

The Open Contracting Data Standard is launched next week. We're celebrating our work on the standard itself, and the website.

Come and meet the Aptivate team at the Bond annual NGO conference and exhibition 2014 in London on November 10th.

Aptivate and WaterAid teamed up to create an interactive map to reveal Africa's access to water and sanitation.

Every year Aptivate hosts an ‘Apticon’ bringing together our own teams, and a fascinating array of guests and experts from the Technology and International Development sectors.

Balsamiq is a great tool for making mockups. I have been using it for a couple of years and find it great for quickly getting rough ideas down and communicating layouts with the rest of the team and with clients.

From the start we have been focused on the appropriate use of IT for international development. We are now working with a whole host of clients and partners around the world and have done some amazing work!

At Bond's annual conference  in November we invited visitors to enter our competition to win a Loband website review. The winner has been drawn and the prize goes to Mango

In this time of austerity DFID has maintained its commitment to spend 0.7% of UK gross national income on aid. Making aid spending more transparent is an excellent aim but it requires better data collection and more of it. At Aptivate we are considering the burden this places on small NGOs and what IT can do to help.