Kuza One Joins Dataswyft’s HATLAB Studio to Build Agriculture Digital Public Infrastructure
Prof Irene Ng and Sriram Bharatam, Founder & Chief Mentor of Kuza at Climate Week NYC 2025
The Dataswyft Wallet will power Kuza’s OneNetwork, turning farm records into trusted digital proof for 1.5 million farmers and agripreneurs
7 October 2025 - Dataswyft’s HATLAB Studio has partnered with Kuza One to transform its OneNetwork into an agricultural digital public infrastructure (DPI), giving smallholder farmers in emerging markets trusted digital identities and better access to markets, finance and opportunities.
The Kuza OneNetwork connects over 6,000 agripreneurs and 1.5 million farmers across nine countries. It will now be powered by the Dataswyft Wallet, which converts everyday farm and agripreneur activity into smart data and digital badges. Farmers and agripreneurs will gain ownership of their information, and with recognized digital identity, become visible and credible with lenders and buyers. The records are designed to expand access to credit, carbon programs and other opportunities while establishing the trust needed for an agricultural DPI to take root.
“Joining HATLAB Studio’s Smart Data Transformation Program is a pivotal step in our mission,” said Sriram Bharatam, Founder & Chief Mentor of Kuza. “With the Dataswyft Wallet, farmers and agripreneurs become visible and investible as their daily efforts — whether planting, harvesting or selling — become digital badges that prove their reliability. These badges create a trusted track record, helping smallholder farmers access credit, strengthen their businesses and build resilience for the future.”
By integrating the Dataswyft Wallet, Kuza is advancing its vision of the OneNetwork as an agricultural DPI - a decentralized data system that serves as the backbone of agricultural value chains. It is intended to break down silos between farmers, buyers, lenders and service providers, making markets more transparent and giving smallholder farmers easier access to inputs, credit and services.
“Kuza is exactly the kind of ecosystem our wallet was built to support,” said Davide Ceper, senior director of global strategy and growth at Dataswyft. “Our goal is to power Kuza’s OneNetwork by giving farmers greater control, trust and opportunity at scale while ensuring their privacy, freedom and choice are always protected.”
Through the Smart Data Transformation Program, Kuza’s One Network will soon allow farmers and agripreneurs to track their own activities in real time and apply that data to demonstrate sustainable farming practices. These records can help them qualify for microloans and credit programs. The same data can also be applied to predictive tools that forecast harvests, market demand and weather risks, helping farmers plan ahead and strengthen their bargaining power. In addition, farmers can track their own financial track records privately, and when they choose to, apply their data to financial proof templates that strengthen their reputation with lenders and investors, all while staying private and in full control over their data.
HATLAB Studio and Kuza plan to roll out the OneNetwork in phases over the next 18 months, starting in East Africa and South Asia before expanding to other regions.
About Kuza
Kuza is building agricultural digital public infrastructure designed to make value chains visible, trustworthy and valuable through smart data. Operating in nine countries, Kuza connects more than 6,000 youth agripreneurs and 1.5 million farmers with buyers, financial institutions and service providers in a trusted digital ecosystem aimed at driving sustainable and inclusive growth.
About Dataswyft
Dataswyft is a distributed network company powering secure, compliant and interoperable data exchange across individuals, businesses and institutions. At its core is the Dataswyft Wallet, a data intermediary embedded in apps and websites that enables smart data ownership, collection and sharing through HAT Microservers. Spun out of U.K. academic research, Dataswyft powers digital public infrastructures for responsible, privacy-preserving data ecosystems. Learn more at www.dataswyft.com.