Sovereign cloud for impact-driven digital commons
To fulfil this mission, Data For Good relies on Clever Cloud — a fully automated PaaS infrastructure, hosted in France, that offers agility while ensuring data sovereignty.
A tech community committed to the common good
We build ethical, open source tools that are often complex to host. With Clever Cloud, we’ve gained autonomy and long-term sustainability.
Amine Saboni
Volunteer at Data For Good
Since 2015, Data For Good has mobilised a community of volunteer developers, data scientists, and designers to work on high-impact projects. Each year, the organisation supports several NGOs and citizen-led groups through a structured tech incubation programme.
The projects span key issues like climate, social justice, and democratic transparency. All share the same ambition: to create useful and reusable digital commons, made open source for the benefit of all.
Why Clever Cloud?
Clever Cloud provides the full tech stack to incubate and deploy our projects. They share our values: sovereignty, ethics, and efficiency.
Amine Saboni
Volunteer at Data For Good
The collaboration with Clever Cloud allows Data For Good to:
- Standardise technical practices on reliable infrastructure;
- Host sensitive tools securely, without sacrificing agility;
Save time with a ready-to-use PaaS platform; - Amplify the impact of the projects it supports.
Among the projects hosted on Clever Cloud:
- Trawl Watch: a platform to track industrial fishing vessels, co-developed with BLOOM Association;
CodeCarbon: a tool that measures the energy consumption and carbon emissions of code execution, used in AI, data science, and software development contexts.
Technical focus on CodeCarbon
CodeCarbon was launched in 2019 at the Montréal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA). Incubated by Data For Good since 2021, the project benefited from Clever Cloud’s support to build a public API and a community database. This infrastructure helps centralise carbon impact data collected by the Python tracker integrated into users’ projects.
Clever Cloud hosts the API, database, and visualisation app, which went live in December 2023. It allows organisations to monitor their workloads’ carbon footprint, with metrics broken down by task, hardware, duration, and energy use.
In virtualised cloud environments, Clever Cloud helps us bypass technical limitations while maintaining a high level of accuracy in the collected metrics.
Amine Saboni
Volunteer at Data For Good
The project relies on:
- Low-level metrics collection (GPU via NVIDIA SMI / AMD ROCm, CPU, and RAM);
- Heuristics fallback, when direct access is limited, ensuring compatibility across cloud environments;
- Integration of national energy mixes, using Electricity Map data to calculate localised carbon impact.
From build to run, without friction
Clever Cloud helped us bridge the gap between the build phase — led by Data For Good volunteers — and the run, now maintained by partner associations without needing to hire tech talent. Some projects have been running in production for weeks without any volunteer intervention.
Amine Saboni
Volunteer at Data For Good
Thanks to Clever Cloud’s PaaS approach, incubated projects can scale to production quickly, with automated, reliable run environments, and no operational overhead. This continuity allows associations to focus on their missions while keeping tools fully operational.
A shared vision for responsible tech
At Data For Good, every line of code is written to build a fairer future. With the support of a reliable, sovereign French cloud provider, the organisation can focus on what matters: bringing impactful digital solutions to life.