From the field
Short dispatches and stories from users, cooperatives, monitors, and operators. The reality behind the data points.
Buzz
From the ground to the world
The places where this work happens rarely make the news, and when they do, someone else tells the story. Buzz is where the ground speaks for itself: field updates, the people behind the data, what the public apps are surfacing, and where trusted local data is starting to find demand.
9Systems live or in deployment
4Sectors served
2Free public applications
2019First backed by EPRM
What lives here
Four windows onto the work.
Milestones
What launched, who joined, what shipped. Concrete, dated, tagged to partners.
Public signals
Live snapshots from the open apps: what local actors are recording in the open, on Nashiriki, Hatua, and Straatos project pages.
Secure data exchange
As exchange capacity takes shape, this is where discoverable datasets, tools, and evidence come into view, with custody and sharing rules intact for the researchers, buyers, and institutions who need them.
Milestones
Recent milestones
- 2026
Oreka enters deployment
The Responsible Minerals Credits scheme, built with a six-party consortium and funded by EPRM, begins deployment at artisanal cobalt sites in DR Congo.
- 2026
Shortlisted for EPRM's scaling round
The European Partnership for Responsible Minerals, which has backed Datastake's core technology since 2019, shortlisted Datastake for its 2026 scaling round.
- 2026
Straatos pilots with Gold Standard
Continuous environmental monitoring for carbon and nature-based projects, piloting with Gold Standard and WeForest.
- 2026
KOTA opens beyond its founding bank
Founded with Trust Merchant Bank, KOTA's onboarding infrastructure for the artisanal mining sector is extending to other banks.
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