A digital infrastructure company, registered in Estonia as Datastake OÜ, that designs, builds and maintains client-owned data systems, several of them serving artisanal and small-scale mining and traceability work across the DRC and other countries.
According to a commercial aggregator of the Estonian Business Register (the primary register, ariregister.rik.ee, was not opened, so these fields are single-source), Datastake OÜ carries registry code 16218735, is a private limited company (osaühing), was registered on 29 April 2021 in Tallinn, and is classified under EMTAK 62901, "Information technology and computer activities", with a share capital of EUR 2,500.
In its own words, Datastake "designs, builds and maintains the client-owned systems that turn" local knowledge "into trusted evidence", and describes itself as the result of "more than a decade of research and fieldwork in countries that postcolonial narratives have written off". Its Terms and Privacy pages name no legal entity beyond "Datastake" itself.
Datastake is the result of more than a decade of research and fieldwork in countries that postcolonial narratives have written off.
Datastake designs, builds and maintains the client-owned systems that turn that knowledge into trusted evidence.
Registry code: 16218735. Legal form: Osaühing (OÜ). Registered: 29.04.2021.
This Privacy Policy explains how Datastake collects, uses and protects the personal information you share
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Datastake website.
Datastake OÜ is a named partner, alongside FairPhone B.V. and the Alliance pour une Mine Responsable Europe, of a EUR 320,000 EPRM-funded project (NL-KVK-27378529-EPRM23S014) developing a book-and-claim credit system for artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC, running 1 May 2024 to 28 February 2027. A Fair Cobalt Alliance account of a 2026 site visit describes EPRM as having "provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM)" to digitalise and scale that credit system, and separately describes "a civil society workshop organised by Datastake" that brought in local NGOs and mining cooperatives including the FCA's partner cooperative CMDS.
On Datastake's own applications page, that project is named Oreka, described as "Digital infrastructure for the Responsible Minerals Credits scheme", "Funded by EPRM" and, as of the page's 2026 milestones, "In deployment" at artisanal cobalt sites in the DRC. The same page describes KOTA, a separate Datastake system for banking-sector counterparty onboarding in DRC artisanal mining, as "Founded with Trust Merchant Bank and managed day to day by Datastake"; that account is Datastake's own and is not independently corroborated. A single account from La Sentinelle des Ressources Naturelles, describing a February 2026 Kolwezi workshop on a separate EPRM-funded due-diligence project, names the implementer as "HIVE (Datastake)" without stating what the relationship between the two is.
Founded with Trust Merchant Bank and managed day to day by Datastake.
KOTA opens beyond its founding bank.
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) to digitalise and scale the RMC system
Total budget EUR 320,000; project status Implementation; 71.00 % spent; start 1 May 2024, end 28 February 2027.
Financé par le Partenariat Européen pour des Minerais Responsables (EPRM) et mis en œuvre par HIVE (Datastake).
Dated, oldest first. Each entry says whose account it is.
The ILO named IFEDD's "DataStake System to identify and mitigate risks of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking" one of three global-category winners of its SDG 8.7 Innovation Challenge, with a USD 30,000 award, for work in the DRC. Not a cobalt-sector activity.
DataStake System to identify and mitigate risks of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking
Global Communities reported that Justice Plus and BetterChain "use DataStake, a near-real-time information management platform sponsored in DRC by the Project", under USAID's Zahabu Safi gold-traceability programme in Ituri province: a gold-sector activity.
Justice Plus and BetterChain use DataStake, a near-real-time information management platform sponsored in DRC by the Project.
Datastake OÜ becomes a named partner in the EPRM-funded Cobalt Credits project (NL-KVK-27378529-EPRM23S014) at Kamilombe, running to February 2027.
This book and claim based credit system connects downstream actors with upstream artisanal producers, with an initial focus on the Kamilombe mine
Total budget EUR 320,000; project status Implementation; 71.00 % spent; start 1 May 2024, end 28 February 2027.
The Fair Cobalt Alliance’s account of an EPRM/Fairphone/European Commission delegation visit to “our partner mine site in Kolwezi” describes “a civil society workshop organised by Datastake”, attended by local NGOs and mining cooperatives including the FCA’s partner cooperative CMDS, at which the FCA and Fairphone “presented the RMC mechanism”.
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) to digitalise and scale the RMC system
A separate, EPRM-funded Holistic Due Diligence workshop in Kolwezi is described by La Sentinelle des Ressources Naturelles as implemented by "HIVE (Datastake)"; the same account records an agenda item introducing the Nashiriki digital infrastructure.
Financé par le Partenariat Européen pour des Minerais Responsables (EPRM) et mis en œuvre par HIVE (Datastake).
Reported means the cited source describes the relationship at its evidence date. Historical relationships refer to an earlier period. Announced agreements may not have been implemented. None of these labels confirms that trade continues today.
Cobalt Credits (EPRM grant)Initiative
Named partner in the EPRM-funded cobalt credit project at Kamilombe, entered on the funder's programme data as "Datastake OÜ". A Fair Cobalt Alliance account of a 2026 delegation visit describes EPRM as having funded the FCA and partners, Datastake among them, to digitalise and scale the credit system.
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) to digitalise and scale the RMC system
Total budget EUR 320,000; project status Implementation; 71.00 % spent; start 1 May 2024, end 28 February 2027.
Sources support the description and the individual connections below. Publication and checking dates belong to the evidence: when it was published, and when this Hub last read it.
Datastake is the result of more than a decade of research and fieldwork in countries that postcolonial narratives have written off.
Datastake designs, builds and maintains the client-owned systems that turn that knowledge into trusted evidence.
This Privacy Policy explains how Datastake collects, uses and protects the personal information you share
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Datastake website.
Founded with Trust Merchant Bank and managed day to day by Datastake.
KOTA opens beyond its founding bank.
This book and claim based credit system connects downstream actors with upstream artisanal producers, with an initial focus on the Kamilombe mine
EPRM provided funding to the FCA and partners (Fairphone, Datastake, and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) to digitalise and scale the RMC system
Justice Plus and BetterChain use DataStake, a near-real-time information management platform sponsored in DRC by the Project.
Registry code: 16218735. Legal form: Osaühing (OÜ). Registered: 29.04.2021.
DataStake System to identify and mitigate risks of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking
Financé par le Partenariat Européen pour des Minerais Responsables (EPRM) et mis en œuvre par HIVE (Datastake).
Total budget EUR 320,000; project status Implementation; 71.00 % spent; start 1 May 2024, end 28 February 2027.