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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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Anonimometro

Algorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach

Wiki Table to CSV converter

Wiki Table to CSV converter

Germany (Deutschland)

Free tool that takes a Wikipedia URL and extracts data to CSV

Every Election

Every Election

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

UK elections database with every district council level election and above

Postcode => Westminster constituency converter

Postcode => Westminster constituency converter

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

Prolific

Prolific

London

Easily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale

Open Data Maturity Scale

Learn about different possible open data interventions, based on level of feasibility and impact

Data and Public Services Toolkit

Data and Public Services Toolkit

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

The Data and Public Services Toolkit aims to help public authorities make better use of data. It addresses challenges such as: how to make a business case for data use; how to use data ethically and fairly; and how to identify and utilise relevant datasets.

Open Council Data

Open Council Data

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info

MapIt

MapIt

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The easy way to match points to boundaries

Innovatiana

Innovatiana

Paris, France

Innovatiana is an Impact Tech startup specialized in Data Labeling for AI.

State-level Digital Transformation Policy Scan: Executive Orders

State-level Digital Transformation Policy Scan: Executive Orders

Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United States

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

morph.io

morph.io

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Take the hassle out of web scraping

NYC Street Map

NYC Street Map

New York City, NY, USA

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

Open Data on GitHub: Unlocking the Potential of AI

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

El Explorador de Gobierto Contratación

El Explorador de Gobierto Contratación reune la información de la Plataforma de Contratación del Estado y de las principales plataformas autonómicas y te permite explotar los datos.

Hub de datos abiertos

Un hub de datos para que tu organización sea la primera que hace uso de sus propios datos.

Aquaya

Aquaya

San Francisco

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

Transparency & Accountability Initiative Grants Database

Transparency & Accountability Initiative Grants Database

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

Kur Gyvenu

Kur Gyvenu

Lithuania (Lietuva)

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

Open Vilnius

Open Vilnius

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

API Vilnius

API Vilnius

Vilnius, Lithuania

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

DataIgualdad

DataIgualdad

Latin America

Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina

Open Data Kosovo

Open Data Kosovo

Kosovo (Kosova)

Open Data Kosovo is a nonprofit organization that believes in using civic-tech and digital humanitarianism to open government.

State Case Database

State Case Database

New York University

Search State Court Report’s database of significant state supreme court decisions and pending cases. Download decisions and briefs for cases that develop state constitutional law.

Dados eleitorais

Dados eleitorais

Rio de Janeiro

Os dados referem-se a eleições realizadas no Brasil entre 1945 e 2006 para os mais diversos âmbitos de governo. Incluem a competição eleitoral para a Presidência da República, para governos de estado, para a Câmara dos Deputados e para o Senado Federal.

Dados legislativos Brasil

Acervo de dados do Congresso Nacional coletados e organizados pelo NECON.

Social Explorer

Social Explorer

New York, USA

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow

Digital Authentication and Identity Proofing in Public Benefits Applications

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

FathomNet

FathomNet

California

FathomNet is an open-source image database for understanding our ocean and its inhabitants

Digital Commons Lab

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

ParlGov

ParlGov

Mannheim

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

Parsons

Parsons

Greeley Square Station 4 East 27th Street New York, NY 10001-9998

Parsons, named after Lucy Parsons, is a Python package that contains a growing list of connectors and integrations to move data between various tools. Parsons is focused on integrations and connectors for tools utilized by the progressive community.

Political Data Intelligence (PDI)

PDI has partnered with progressive campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy groups for more than 30 years to help them win on Election Day.

Open Spending Netherlands

Open Spending Netherlands

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

The goal of the project is to publish standardized financial detail data of municipalities, provinces, ministries and other governing bodies on the central platform openspending.nl.

Waar is mijn stemlokaal

Waar is mijn stemlokaal

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Een stembureau bij jou in de buurt, zo gevonden

Iguala

Iguala

Madrid (Spain)

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

Development Data Platform (DDP)

DDP is an open-source data pipeline platform to tackle data ingestion, storage and transformation that can be used by NGOs to drive actionable insights

Infrastructure Space

Infrastructure Space

Manchester, United Kingdom

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

OpenNorth's Data Quality course

This course provides users with a practical introduction to the topic and importance of data quality. It discusses key concepts and offers clear exercises on accessing good data and evaluating the quality of data. Available in English and French.

OCCRP Aleph

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

Raval data commons

Raval data commons

Barcelona, Spain

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

Slum Dwellers International Data Portal

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

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