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This page curates everything from open government data to visualization tools to data standards to algorithmic implementation. The only common thread is that all these data and data products share a commitment to civic interests.

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Fogo Cruzado

Fogo Cruzado

Rio de Janeiro

Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database

Outreach Grid

Outreach Grid

Irvine, CA

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

Zooniverse

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

Perimeter

Perimeter

Bay Area, CA, USA

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

OpenAQ

OpenAQ

1226 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

MapAction

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

GEOIDEA.RO

GEOIDEA.RO

Romania

Geoidea.ro stands for GEodata Openness Initative for Development and Economic Advancement in ROmania and started in January 2013. It aims at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania

Veovo

Veovo

Auckland, New Zealand

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

Canadian Open Data Society

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

AuroraSaurus

AuroraSaurus

New Mexico

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

How's my Driving NYC

How's my Driving NYC

NYC Department of Finance - Financial Business Center, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Search New York City parking & camera violations

OpenBudget.ro

Open Budget este o platformă care îţi permite să vizualizezi bugetul statului român şi să modifici felul in care sunt alocate fondurile publice.

Otwarte Dane

Otwarte Dane

Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, Królewska, Warsaw, Poland

Central repository of Polish open public data.

Coord

Coord

New York City

Cities and towns of all sizes are struggling to ensure compliance, safety, and efficiency along the curb. Coord makes it easy to collect, manage, and share curb data.

Impact Management Project

Impact Management Project

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

Open By-laws South Africa

Open By-laws South Africa

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

data.gouv.fr

Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises

Civic Data Library of Context

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

Congressional Data Coalition

We believe Congress should publish legislative information in formats both humans and computers can make sense of. Our mission is to promote greater transparency, preservation, and access to Congressional data.

EU Datathon

EU Datathon

Brussels, Belgium

event aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union

SandDance

Visually explore, understand, and present data SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data

Open Government Data Tirol

Daten der Verwaltung werden durch digitale Infrastruktur öffentlich verfügbar und nutzbar gemacht.

Open Civic Data Standard

The opencivicdata organization on Github is the home to a collaborative effort to define common schemas and provide tools for gathering information on government organizations, people, legislation, and events.

Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

USA Facts

USA Facts

Vance Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States

Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.

Knoema

Knoema’s database features more than 2.4b time series from 1k+ sources.

Candid

Candid

32 Old Slip, 24th Floor New York, NY 10005

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

Opendata.swiss

Opendata.swiss

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

Find Swiss Open Government data

Indicator Toolbox

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

Blue Button

Blue Button

United States of America (the)

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

The ODI's Open Standards for Data Guidebook

The ODI's Open Standards for Data Guidebook

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

Joined Up Data Standards

We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.

Google BigQuery

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

OpenCorporates

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

Vision Zero NYC map

Vision Zero NYC map

New York City Department of Transportation, Queens Plaza North, Long Island City, NY, USA

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

Open Data Swiss Handbook

Open Data Swiss Handbook

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

OpenElections

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

GOT Data

GOT Data

Prishtina, Kosovo

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

Source Africa

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

Government Digital Standards

Government Digital Standards

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

A list of digital standards used by governments around the world

Ping if you Care

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

Seattle Boundaries

Seattle Boundaries

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

Popit

Popit

Malaysia

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

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