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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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FireBench

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

udata

udata

France

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

InvenioRDM

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

¿Cómo Crear Historia con Datos?

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

Google Censorship

Google Censorship

China (Zhong Guo)

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

OpenGovLoc

OpenGovLoc

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

LookerStudio

Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.

Kepler

Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.

Datos que hacen ciudad

El programa Cali Cómo Vamos, el laboratorio ciudadano Mi Cali Contrata Bien, la Unidad de Acción Vallecaucana y el observatorio Cali Visible, ponen a disposición una ruta de obtención de datos referidos a indicadores de bienestar y gestión pública de la ciudad.

Transforming Flanders digitally

The Government of Flanders is developing the digital talents of all people of Flanders. It valorises data as a raw material of the economy and society and is working on the digital transformation of public service delivery.

Cali Cómo Vamos

Cali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Editorial El Tiempo, la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá y la Fundación Corona.

Domestic Data Streamers

Domestic Data Streamers

Carrer Papin 33, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

We are a research and design studio partnering up with organisations to build change through data, community, and arts.

Arkam (أرقام - مرحبا بيك)

Arkam gathers, analyzes and presents relevant data on public policies in Africa to promote transparent and effective governance.

Data Zetu

Data Zetu

United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)

This project is using geospatial technology to solve the climate mobility data gap and inform required food security and planning interventions.

Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation

The Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.

Give Food

Give Food

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We're a UK charity that uses data to highlight local and structural food insecurity then provides tools to help alleviate it.

UK Constituency Data Hex Maps

UK Constituency Data Hex Maps

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

This site maps data about UK constituencies on hex maps (cartograms). We have created several themes (economy, energy, environment, health, society, and transport) and have filled those with separate pages for each data aspect.

UK Local Stats

UK Local Stats

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years

Base dos Dados

Base dos Dados

Rio de Janeiro

Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.

ADISI - CAMEROUN

ADISI - CAMEROUN

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.

UGhub

UGhub

Uganda

NITA-U is integrating all MDA systems to the UGhub Systems Integration Platform so as to enable seamlessly sharing of data across Government systems in a rational, secure, efficient and sustainable manner.

Overture Maps Foundation

Powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data

Disability Data Standard

We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.

Gobernantes.info

Gobernantes.info

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Datos verificados de personas candidatas y gobernantes para combatir la desinformación y promover la democracia en América Latina.

Abrimos.info

Abrimos.info

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

En Abrimos.info combinamos nuestra experiencia abriendo datos con amplias capacidades narrativas, investigativas y de desarrollo para crear bases de datos fiables y verificadas que promueven el conocimiento estratégico.

Data 4 Public Good

Data 4 Public Good is a collective space where we share insights, learnings, and have conversations on topics including; Digital justice, Afrofuturism, Data and data privacy, AI and much more. We aim to tap into the collective power of community-based changemaking through technology, democracy, and justice.

DataFest Africa

DataFest Africa

East Africa

DataFest Africa is an event that seeks to celebrate data use in the East African region by bringing together various stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, such as government, civil society, donors, academics, students and private industry experts, under one roof and theme.

Newsbank

Providing easy access to the world's largest repository of reliable information

Land & Carbon Lab

Land & Carbon Lab partners with leading scientists and technologists to harness the power of artificial intelligence and geospatial monitoring to build cutting edge, open access monitoring systems for the world’s land and its nature-based carbon.

Hansard

Hansard

London

The official report of all Parliamentary debates. Find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.

Hashtag Generation

Hashtag Generation

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

Data For Crisis

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to public data

527 Explorer

527 Explorer

United States of America (the)

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

Joining the Dots

Joining the Dots

Av. Entre Rios 258 3E (1079 - Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires - Argentina)

"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in the extractive sector, with the aim of identifying possible conflicts of interest, corruption or misuse of public office.

Data Science for Social Good (Portugal)

Ajudamos organizações sem fins lucrativos, não governamentais e governamentais a aproveitar o poder dos seus dados, para melhorar o seu impacto na comunidade.

A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI

Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.

Voteview

Voteview

Los Angeles, CA

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

Impala

Impala

Brooklyn, NY

By connecting nonprofits and funders in one place, Impala equips you with the data, insights and relationships you need to succeed.

Common Crawl

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

RunningMate

RunningMate

Austin, TX

Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.

Public Information Records (PIR)

Civitech’s proprietary data set features nearly 30 million records of unregistered potential voters.

mxDistritos

mxDistritos

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis

FCA Digital Sandbox

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

Spatial Equity NYC

Spatial Equity NYC

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

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