Visualization for Transparency Foundation (ViT)

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Year the company was founded: 2020

Company web page: https://www.fundaciovit.org/

The ViT Foundation focuses on making complex information clear and accessible through data visualisation.
Its main objective is to increase transparency and help policy makers make better informed decisions by providing guidance on visualisation methods and promoting data-driven visual communication.

Main products and services:

They offer specialised services for decision-making based on the analysis and communication of open data. In addition, they communicate with open data in an interactive, dynamic and open web format.

Some examples of projects developed are:
1. Quality of life in Spain (Source: INE data)
https://imcv.fndvit.org/

2. UNEP- State of the climate. Climate Action Note (https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-action/what-we-do/climate-ac...)

3. National Geographic- Water Gap (https://worldwatermap.dev.nationalgeographic.org/)

4. Catalunya en Dades (Source: Dades Obertes Catalunya)
https://catalunya-en-dades.fndvit.org/

5. La sequera a Catalunya (Source: Dades Obertes Catalunya)
https://sequera.fndvit.org/

6. Covid vaccination (source: Datos Abiertos de Ministerio Sanidad)
https://vacunas.fndvit.org/

See more projects on their website: https://www.fundaciovit.org/what-we-do

Key to success:

The key to its success is professionalism, dedication to the project, transparency to follow the work process at any time of its development, through state-of-the-art tools.

Growth:

They are a non-profit foundation (which does not mean that they do not charge for our work). As such, their income is always proportionate to their annual expenses. If there are surpluses, they reinvest them in promoting the principles of their statutes.

The Foundation aims to promote literacy in the access, demand and use of data and visualisation with the objective of empowering an informed, participatory and empowered citizenry.

In particular, and without being exhaustive, the specific aims of the Foundation are
- To develop visual and data literacy in society as a defence against misinformation - in all fields.
- To achieve greater transparency with data of public interest through accountability to the administration.
- To be a benchmark of good practice and methodology in the use of data visualisation and transparency for the administration, research institutes and the media.

Future plans:

Continue to grow, increase their team, combine data analysis and communication with other artificial intelligence projects, etc.
They are always ready to open up new avenues of technological and digital innovation.

Data used:

They always use public open data repositories.
Even when they work with private data, they do their best to keep it open and reusable from Github repositories.

On many occasions they make requests for public information through the Transparency Portal. We publish the data obtained in Github so that they can be reused.

URL to catalog/s data source:

Company size:

1-10 employees

Headquarters:

Girona

Offices in:

Girona, Barcelona

Level of internalization:

USA, Canadá, Alemania, Hungría, UK

Customers:

They work mainly with international public and private clients.

Here are some of their clients:
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) 2.
2. National Geographic
3. Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)
4. Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI)
5. EU UNTWIST Project (Horizon Programme)

They are a non-profit organisation, created in 2020, with a team of 10 professionals (programmers, designers, communicators, etc.) with experience in data communication for more than 15 years, locally and internationally.

Their projects are always based on open data, which they analyse and communicate in the most comprehensible way for the target group that has to make decisions (business people, political decision-makers, or citizens in general).

To date, its projects have focused on the following sectors:
-Health (Various data from Canada, Covid vaccination in Spain),
- Environment (air pollution, air pollution, drinking water, drought, etc.),
- Technology (Digital divide in Barcelona)
- Social (Quality of life in Spain, Male violence in Catalonia, Violence against minors)
etc.

Marketing model:

The commercialisation model is payment for the service of analysing and communicating the data, in dynamic and interactive websites. Behind each project there is a team of computer programmers and designers who are experts in data communication. It depends on the size of the project, the time invested, the objective of the project and the target audience.

Further information:

karma@fundaciovit.org