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

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech
• Data integration

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.

• Civic data
• Online courses

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

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.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

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

• Civic data
• Data governance

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

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing

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

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

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

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

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

• Github

• Civic data
• Media
• Civic tech catalogs

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.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Open data publishing portals

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

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech

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

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

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

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

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

• Civic data
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Budget explorers

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.

• APIs

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

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

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

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

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

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

• People Powered

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data

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.

• Civic data

Open data platform in Madagascar

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

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.

• state

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

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

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

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.

• public space

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Communicating with the people

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.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara

• earthquakes

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.

• Civic data
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Civic data
• Media
• Research and policy centers

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Data governance

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

Ranking of countries by their open government data governance processes

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic maps

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

• Civic data
• Mapping

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

This is a dataset that uses multiple metrics of deprivation to rank all small neighbourhood sized chunks of the UK from most to least deprived.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data