Bengaluru, India
Datalk is a technology partner for major government and institutional programmes. We help organisations plan ambitious work and see it through, from the first technical decisions to the systems people rely on every day.
What we believe
Major programmes bring complex requirements, many stakeholders and real responsibility.
The technology behind them needs a clear plan, a solid foundation and a team that stays with it after launch.
Datalk brings all of that into one engagement.
Infrastructure, backend development, applications, analysis platforms and operational support are planned together, so the decisions made on day one still hold up on the day the system goes live.
Our government and institutional experience makes Datalk a grounded partner for programmes of national significance, and for ambitions that reach beyond India.
National Mental Health Survey 2 (NMHS-2)
We built the technology behind the world's largest psychiatric epidemiology survey.
2,50,000+Interviews with adults and adolescents
36States and Union Territories, a pan‑India survey
What we built
Conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, and funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The research paper is due out soon.Conducted by NIMHANS, Bengaluru; funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Research paper due soon. NMHS-2 programme overview (external site)
Delivery scope
The complete platform
Objectives become an architecture and a delivery plan: what runs where, how it scales and what it will cost to operate.
Environments on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, defined as code and run in containers, so they can be rebuilt, scaled and audited.
Backend services and secure APIs hold the business logic and the data, with queues and caching where the load calls for them.
Databases, pipelines and dashboards turn what the system collects into information people can analyse and act on.
Accessible web and mobile apps, built on the same APIs, for the people who use them every day.
Access control, encryption, automated deployments and monitoring are built in across the platform, with a team that supports it for as long as it is in use.
Capabilities
Technology
Partners & programmes
Delivered for
Five platforms, each delivered end to end: a national research platform for a Government of India survey, applications for NIMHANS programmes, an institutional reporting system and a custom website with its own publishing system.
National Mental Health Survey 2 · Government of India
The complete digital platform behind India's second National Mental Health Survey: infrastructure, backend systems, the field application and support while the survey was live.
NIMHANS suicide prevention initiative
A custom website, backend and advanced content management system for a NIMHANS suicide prevention initiative.
Urban Self-Harm Study
A complete research platform for a NIMHANS suicide prevention initiative: the mobile app, the analysis platform and the systems behind them.
Systems Approach for Management of Self-Harm
A complete research platform for a hospital-based suicide prevention programme involving NIMHANS: mobile app, analysis platform and the systems behind them.
Annual Report Management System · NIMHANS
A complete annual report management platform for NIMHANS.
Why Datalk
We have built platforms for government and institutional programmes, where the technology has to meet specialist requirements and keep pace with a programme that is already moving.
We take responsibility for the complete technical platform, so when something needs deciding or fixing, there is one team to call.
Scope, architecture and priorities are matched to the resources you have. The aim is a useful system that is easy to maintain and right for the programme's purpose.
Our work continues into live use. We have supported research platforms for the whole of their live period, including a national survey.
Scale and value
Large programmes span many locations, several groups of stakeholders and a great deal of information. We start by understanding that context, then shape the technical approach around the scale you need, the budget you have and the order in which things have to happen.
Our Super Intelligence approach brings intelligent tools, domain knowledge and human judgement into that work. Each tool is used for a clear purpose and judged on what it actually achieves.
Context first, then the approach
Understood first
Multiple locations
Stakeholder groups
Substantial information needs
Technical approach
Shaped around
Required scale
Available budget
Delivery priorities
Research & Analytics
Alongside platform engineering, Datalk offers statistical analysis and advanced analytics for students, researchers and institutions. We connect the research question, the method and the interpretation, so findings can be understood and used with care.
Explore Research & AnalyticsQuestion, method, interpretation
Research question
What the study needs to answer
Analytical method
Suited to the design and the data
Interpretation
Understood and used with care
Tell us what you are aiming for, what you need and where things stand today. We will help you map a practical path from planning to delivery.