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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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Indigenous data sovereignty

Indigenous data sovereignty

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Policy decisions on and resource allocations for IEM tend to be made with inadequate data. The focus of the IDS programme is to coordinate a transboundary effort to develop indigenous data with indigenous stewardship.

Open Development Thailand

Open Development Thailand

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Sharing information about Thailand and its development with the world.

Pulse Lab Jakarta

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

NYC Open Data Project Gallery

NYC Open Data Project Gallery

New York City, NY, USA

On the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

Felt

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

2020 Tax Clock (South Africa)

2020 Tax Clock (South Africa)

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

​How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?​

Civil Network OPORA

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

TaxClock Kenya

TaxClock shows how public budget data can be used to help citizens better understand how governments spend our taxmoney.

Social Science One

Social Science One

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Social Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.

PesaYetu

PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.

California Cradle-to-Career Data System

A statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.

OneCity

OneCity

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

Akvo Foundation

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

AP election results API

AP provides tech companies with election updates via a proprietary API that tech companies can plug into with a subscription to answer voice search queries, among others.

Court Listener

Court Listener

Oakland, California

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

Measures for Justice Data Portal

Measures for Justice Data Portal

United States of America (the)

Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.

Open for Good Alliance

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

AidData Replication Datasets

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

All In: Data for Community Health

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

Code Hopper

Code Hopper is a repository to share code across the progressive community. Currently it consists of data wrangling functions, and our goal is to continually expand its scope.

Tiszta Szavazás

Tiszta Szavazás

Hungary (Magyarország)

API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results

Climate Data Hub

Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional,  social, and financial.

Justice Counts

Justice Counts

United States of America (the)

Actionable data to bolster public safety

The Data Nutrition Project

The Data Nutrition Project aims to create a standard label for interrogating datasets.

NYC Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA)

The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.

Analytics Exchange

Analytics Exchange

New York City

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

Numina

Numina

Brooklyn, NY

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

Hyperobjekt

We are a digital agency focused on innovative work for social good.

Civin

Civin

Boston, MA

Civin specializes in working with state and local governments and other public sector agencies to build data-driven programs that deliver lasting value.

Ad Watch

Ad Watch

Arizona, USA

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

Accela Civic Insight

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

AIME

AIME

Moffett Field, Clark Road, Mountain View, California, USA

Our platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.

A strategy for urban data

A strategy for urban data

Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69, 1011 HB Amsterdam, Netherlands

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

AAPI Data

AAPI Data

Riverside, CA, USA

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

A qué precio?

A qué precio?

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Este observatorio de compras públicas en Salud recopila datos sobre los precios que pagan diferentes organismos estatales por medicamentos para permitir su análisis y transparentar la información gubernamental.

data.org Resource Library

data.org Resource Library

The Rockefeller Foundation, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.

The Verifier

The Verifier

United States of America (the)

The only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.

Open Gazettes South Africa

Open Gazettes South Africa

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

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

MPR (Medicine Price Registry)

MPR (Medicine Price Registry)

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

MPR can be used to find out what you can expect when your doctor prescribes you something; find out if there are cheaper generics that you can use instead; and make sure that you aren't being overcharged.

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