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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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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.

PUNCHUP

PUNCHUP

No. 1 Building, 6th Floor, Soi Patpong, 1 Surawong Rd, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

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.

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

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.

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.

Do Open Data Impact on Citizens’ Behaviours?

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot

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

Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

Github's Open journalism Collection

See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.

Justice Hub

Justice Hub

Bangalore

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

CivicDataLab

CivicDataLab

India (Bhārat)

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

Agami

Agami

Bangalore

Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India

DataMéxico

DataMéxico

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

DataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.

Red Ciudadana

Red Ciudadana

Guatemala

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

OpenBook

OpenBook

800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

OpenGrants API

OpenGrants delivers a best-in-class database of grant funding and a marketplace of grant writers, consultants and technical assistance providers. Integrate the power of OpenGrants into your product using our API.

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap

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

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

Africa Data Hub

Africa Data Hub

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

Data about Africa for Africa

Africa Data Hub Climate Observer

Africa Data Hub Climate Observer

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

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

HOT Tasking Manager

HOT Tasking Manager

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

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

K-Monitor

K-Monitor

Hungary (Magyarország)

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

Maai Makwa (My Water)

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

Association Maidi

Association Maidi

Madagascar (Madagasikara)

Madagascar Initiatives for Digital Innovation est une association à but non lucratif régie par l'Ordonnance n°60-133 du 03 octobre 1960. L'objectif est de promouvoir l' E-Democracy - l'Open Data et le Datajournalisme à Madagascar.

Colorado Broadband Hub

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

Who owns what in NYC?

Who owns what in NYC?

New York City, NY, USA

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

Custodianship in the Urban Commons

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

DCinbox

DCinbox

Hoboken

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

“Seeing” Neighborhoods through “Big” Data

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

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