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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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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.

Riding Forward: Overhauling Citi Bike’s Contract for Better, More Equitable Service

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

NYC Funds Tracker

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

Planning for Informality

Planning for Informality

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

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

CivicSearch

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

Climate Data Joint Learning Network

Climate Data Joint Learning Network

United Nations Foundation

The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

United States of America (the)

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

PoliDashboard

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

FedGeoDay

FedGeoDay

Washington, DC

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

OpenLitterMap

OpenLitterMap

Cork, Ireland

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024

Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, Netherlands

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

EU Transparency Centre Reports Archive

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

Zenodo

Zenodo

Europe

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for European Commission funded research.

SHARE LAB

SHARE LAB

Serbia (Srbija)

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

SHARE MONITORING

SHARE MONITORING

Serbia (Srbija)

Monitoring digital rights violations and online violations in Serbia.

Reliabl

We help platforms transition to community-driven data management.

Local Intelligence Hub

Local Intelligence Hub

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

Civic Infrastructure Scan

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

The Planning London Datahub

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

Fiscalía Abierta

Fiscalía Abierta

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

Parte del programa Justicia Abierta, este es un proyecto integral de apertura institucional, que comprende un software web que permite a las fiscalías sistematizar las solicitudes de acceso a la información condensando datos procesales, de uso

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

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

Open Data Maturity Scale

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

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

Civic Sight

Civic Sight

Hong Kong

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

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."

Hub de datos abiertos

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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