AKRYL

Based in Hamburg, AKRYL is a small consulting firm working at the intersection of digital strategy and international development. Rather than serving typical commercial clients, its focus is on public sector and international development projects, having worked across Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. The firm positions itself around digitalization and data-driven strategy specifically in the context of development cooperation, helping clients align digital initiatives with the Sustainable Development Goals. As an official endorser of the Principles for Digital Development, AKRYL frames its work around building solutions that are sustainable, user-centered, data-driven, and attentive to privacy and security. The firm's consulting approach follows a staged process: an analyze-and-plan phase focused on understanding users' needs and expectations to address adoption barriers, followed by a technology-selection phase that favors open source tools, open standards, and open data where feasible to reduce dependency on proprietary software. Privacy and security considerations, including decisions on data collection and storage, are addressed during this stage. A further stage centers on sustainability planning, encouraging clients to define a theory of change, consider project scale, and secure continuous funding so that initiatives can be maintained and eventually scaled. Beyond strategy consulting, AKRYL's listed services include ICT development, project implementation, SEO, BI and big data consulting, digital strategy, email marketing, web design, and social media marketing, and the firm has also produced video content for at least one development-sector client.