Data Act Lab is a team of development and interaction experts dedicated to using visualization to make the world a better place. We have 25 years of experience from global development and user interface design and are passionate about making data visible and actionable.

Founder

Alexandra Silfverstolpe Tolstoy has been working with development issues for 20 years with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sida, the UN, the EU Commission and civil society organizations. She also holds a Masters in Development Management from the London School of Economics. 

In her two decades of experience working with global development issues, she often felt that decisions about how to spend resources were made in isolation of important facts that were essential to creating intended results. As an aid practicioner she lacked easy ways to access and analyze development data. She created Data Act Lab to assist governments, organizations, think tanks and the public to make sense of complex data in order to drive better decision making and in the end create a better world. 

The team

Their core team consists of experienced project management and technical lead as well as UX and web design. They always aim for building future proof and easily maintained solutions based on open technology and open standards.

They have a very wide array of experiences in the web developement business. Between them they've built advanced registration systems, custom e-commerce systems, high availability service systems and much more. These systems are handling billions of rows of data and they've designed infrastructure and applications to meet the demands of high traffic, high performance sites and systems. All this packaged in easy to use interfaces and lean designs.

They've come together to use their vast knowledge to support a better tomorrow for their children and their childrens' children.