Opendream

What Opendream does

Opendream is a Bangkok-based social enterprise founded in 2007 that designs, develops, and deploys open-source digital products addressing public health, education, civic engagement, and livelihood challenges, primarily in Thailand. The company operates as a project-based professional services studio, building custom solutions for NGOs, foundations, government agencies, and international organizations, with marquee clients and partners including UNICEF Thailand, the Election Commission of Thailand, Chiang Mai Provincial Government, Skoll Global Threats Fund, Google.org, Oxfam GB, and multiple Thai research institutions. Its product portfolio spans mobile applications (DoctorMe self-care health app, Corrupt anti-corruption visual novel game, Judies sexual-health education game), surveillance systems (PODD participatory one-health disease detection), web platforms (VOTE 62 election monitoring with crowdsourced ballot-counting, YAK DATA open-data road-accident mapping, TAEJAI crowdfunding for NGOs, UNICEF Thailand donation site), and chatbot products (Sabaidee). The underlying technology stack emphasizes open-source software development, multi-party real-time communication architecture, and community-driven data collection, with products distributed through iOS App Store, Google Play, direct web access, and open-source repositories licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The company's go-to-market combines product-led growth (consumer-facing apps in app stores) with a partnership-driven professional services motion for institutional clients, supplemented by earned media coverage in BBC, NHK World, and Thai PBS, plus conference presence at ASEAN Digital Public Health Conference and ASEAN ICT Awards. Quantified impact includes 80,000+ Corrupt game players educated on corruption consequences, PODD scaling from 600 to 2,000 community volunteer reporters with 75 disease outbreaks stopped within 34 months, DoctorMe reaching #1 App Store ranking within one week of launch, and VOTE 62 capturing 10,288 ballot images and 18,840 digitizations on a single 2019 election day. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; contracts are negotiated per-project with NGOs and government partners.

Opendream has accumulated significant recognition capital for a small (11-50 employee) Thai firm, including ASEAN ICT Awards 2017 Silver (Corrupt) and Bronze (PODD), the National Anti-Corruption Commission Integrity Awards 2017, MIT Solve 2021 winner status as the first Thai company to win the competition, and The Trinity Challenge 2021 finalist selection alongside the Gates Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Cambridge. The company is led by Managing Director Patipat (Keng) Susumpow and operates from a single headquarters in Huai Khwang, Bangkok.

Name

Opendream

Legal name

Opendream Co., Ltd.

Website

https://opendream.co.th

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Opendream is a Bangkok-based social enterprise founded in 2007 that builds open-source digital products—mobile apps, disease surveillance systems, civic platforms, and crowdfunding tools—for NGOs, foundations, and Thai government agencies addressing health, education, and civic engagement challenges.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic & Social-Impact Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Health, Health Information Systems & Data Programs (BPADAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Development & ICT4D / GovTech Technical Assistance (BPADAEAL), Health & Support Communities (BPAMABAL)

Keywords

• Civic technology software
• Open-source development
• Digital health platforms
• Crowdfunding platforms
• Social impact applications

Headquarters

HQ city

Huai Khwang

HQ country

Thailand

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Project-based Development Services: Opendream develops custom digital solutions for NGOs, government agencies, and international organizations on a project basis. Projects include disease surveillance systems, donation platforms, and civic technology applications developed in collaboration with partners.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Opendream designs, develops, and operates open-technology digital solutions that address health, education, livelihood, and civic-system challenges in Thailand. Its portfolio includes disease surveillance software (PODD), self-care and telemedicine mobile applications (DoctorMe, Sabaidee Chatbot), civic-transparency and election-monitoring platforms (VOTE 62, YAK DATA), an NGO crowdfunding/donation platform (TAEJAI), and visual-novel educational games (Corrupt, Judies), delivered through project-based engagements with NGOs, government, and international organizations.

Product overview

Opendream is a Thai social enterprise (established 2007) that designs and builds open technology solutions across health, education, livelihood, and civic systems. Their portfolio includes: disease surveillance tools (PODD), self-care health applications (DoctorMe), educational games for anti-corruption awareness (Corrupt) and sexual health education (Judies), civic technology platforms for election monitoring (VOTE 62) and open data analysis (YAK DATA), donation platforms (TAEJAI, Unicef Donation), and various other digital tools for social impact. The company collaborates with government agencies, NGOs, universities, and international organizations to develop technology solutions that serve communities and drive sustainable change.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PODD: Participatory One-health Disease Detection - surveillance system for zoonotic diseases in remote communities
• DoctorMe
• Corrupt
• Judies
• VOTE 62
• YAK DATA
• UNICEF Donation
• Taejai

Products and services

• PODD (Participatory One-health Disease Detection) A participatory disease surveillance system designed to detect outbreaks of livestock and human diseases in rural communities through crowdsourced reporting by trained volunteers.
• DoctorMe A self-care health information mobile application that helps Thai users look up symptoms and basic care advice.
• Sabaidee Chatbot (สบายดี แชตบอต) A chatbot product designed to deliver health- and service-related information to Thai end users through messaging platforms.
• TAEJAI (เทใจ) A donation crowdfunding platform that connects individual donors with NGOs and charitable projects in Thailand, offering a transparent alternative to street-based solicitations.
• UNICEF Donation A donation-platform engagement delivered in partnership with UNICEF to support online fundraising programs.
• YAK DATA project A civic-data platform that supports election monitoring and public-interest data sharing, deployed as part of Opendream's civic-tech portfolio.
• VOTE 62 An election-monitoring platform enabling citizen reporting of electoral irregularities and real-time aggregation of incidents for transparency purposes.
• Corrupt (เกมคอร์รัป) A visual-novel educational game that raises youth awareness of corruption through interactive storytelling.
• Judies (จูดี้) An interactive visual-novel educational game targeting Thai youth to convey social or civic-awareness themes.
• EEF Proposal A project in Opendream's portfolio, delivered as part of its open-technology development engagements.

Quantifiable outcome

• 75 disease outbreaks stopped from spreading in first 34 months
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chiang Mai UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExpert collaboration from veterinary science professors involved in PODD disease surveillance system development
• One Health Network, Chiang MaicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-disciplinary collaboration partner in one health disease surveillance initiative
• Change FusionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in YAK DATA open data project and various digital for social impact initiatives
• สถาบันเพื่อการยุติธรรมแห่งประเทศไทย (Institute of Justice for Thailand)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in YAK DATA project for road accident data analysis
• มูลนิธิเพื่อคนไทย (Khonthai Foundation)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Corrupt anti-corruption game development
• สถาบันวิจัยเพื่อการพัฒนาประเทศไทย (TDRI)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch institute partner in corruption awareness game development
• ศูนย์เศรษฐศาสตร์พฤติกรรมและการทดลอง จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย (CBEE)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCenter for Behavioral Economics research partner in Corrupt game project
• UNICEF ThailandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeveloped national donation website and e-commerce experience for UNICEF Thailand's child welfare programs
• The MOMENTUMmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia organization partner in VOTE 62 election monitoring platform development
• a day BULLETINmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedia partner in VOTE 62 civic technology initiative
• iLawmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLegal reform organization partner in VOTE 62 election monitoring project
• Folk Doctor FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare foundation partner in DoctorMe self-care application development
• GoogleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as collaborator including Google.org for technology and social impact initiatives
• Oxfam GBminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational development organization collaborator
• Chiang Mai UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner providing veterinary and public health expertise for disease surveillance projects
• Debaratana Vejjanukula FoundationmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare foundation partner in DV Consult telemedicine application development
• Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThai government ministry that selected Opendream as national representative for ASEAN ICT Awards 2017
• Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment agency that selected Opendream as representative for ASEAN ICT Awards 2017 competition

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Thoughtworks: Global technology consultancy with a dedicated Social Impact practice that partners with international development organizations — overlaps with Opendream's project-based development services model but at significantly larger scale across global NGO and UN engagements.

Emerging players

• Open Data Kit (ODK): Open-source toolkit for mobile data collection in low-resource environments, widely used in global health and international development — comparable to PODD's community-based disease reporting workflow and Opendream's broader open-source methodology.
• Medic: Open-source digital health platform for community health workers, built on open-source principles with CHT (Community Health Toolkit) framework — overlaps with Opendream's PODD disease surveillance and DoctorMe health self-care work, particularly in remote/low-resource contexts.
• Praekelt.org: Social-impact technology organization building open-source mobile and chatbot solutions for health, education, and civic engagement in Africa — analogous to Opendream's 'Sabaidee Chatbot' and PODD-style social-impact mobile platforms.

Others

• Open Knowledge Foundation: Global non-profit promoting open data and civic technology tools (CKAN, Open Data Index) — thematically aligned with Opendream's open-data YAK DATA road accident platform and broader open-by-design philosophy.
• Change Fusion: Thai civic technology and open-data non-profit organization that is both an Opendream partner (YAK DATA project) and a peer in the Thailand civic tech ecosystem with overlapping focus on open data and social impact technology.

Direct peers

• Ushahidi: Open-source civic technology platform for crowdsourced data collection and election monitoring (originally built for the 2008 Kenya election), with similar open-source replication model and crowdsourcing architecture to Opendream's VOTE 62.
• InSTEDD: Non-profit tech organization that designs open-source digital tools for global health surveillance, humanitarian response, and civic engagement in low-resource settings — directly comparable to Opendream's PODD disease detection and VOTE 62 civic tech work.
• Dimagi: Social enterprise building digital health platforms (CommCare) for community health workers and NGOs in emerging markets — closely aligned with Opendream's DoctorMe, DV Consult telemedicine, and PODD health-product portfolio and non-profit/government customer base.

Regional players

• Code for All (Code for Asia): International network of civic technology organizations (Code for Japan, Code for Philippines, Code for America) building open-source civic tech for election monitoring, open data, and government transparency — directly comparable to Opendream's VOTE 62 and YAK DATA civic tech focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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