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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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Mobile Justice

Mobile Justice

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

Open Data.ch

Open Data.ch

Switzerland

Daten öffentlich, frei verfügbar und nutzbar zu machen für mehr Transparenz, Innovation und Effizienz — das ist Open Data.

Maps for Change

Maps for Change

San Francisco

Embeddable map of parallel events and buses going to the People's Climate March in Washington, DC.

HVA IN DE STAD

Deze tool brengt alle onderwijs- en onderzoeksprojecten van de HvA in kaart en is een startpunt voor onderlinge samenwerking. Kijk, ontdek, deel en doe mee met HvA in de Stad!

Oyez

Oyez

565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661, USA

It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

Nkola App

Nkola App is a tool which can disseminate employment rights information via the short message codes on your phone – the ones usually used for airtime or service provision from the telecom companies.

Amazon Public Dataset team

Amazon Public Dataset team

Amazon, 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA, USA

This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources.

Strava Metro

Strava Metro

Strava Office, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA

Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.

Law Padi

Law Padi

Nigeria

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

City of Buffalo Data 101

Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.

Trimble

With Trimble at your side, you can harness geospatial data collection and measurement technologies, field inspection and asset management tools, as well as analysis systems to engage with citizens, collaborate with business partners, and manage change and compliance to optimize your operations and workforce.

Open Government Data Oberösterreich

Die Oö. Landesregierung unterstützt durch ihren Beschluss vom 29. Oktober 2012 die nachhaltige Entwicklung der Informationsgesellschaft und Bürgerbeteiligung nach den Grundsätzen Transparenz, Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit.

OpenDataKit

ODK lets you build powerful offline forms to collect the data you need wherever it is. Join the leading social impact organizations that use ODK to make the world a better place.

UK official statistics on homelessness: comparisons, processes and definitions

UK official statistics on homelessness: comparisons, processes and definitions

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

This tool will help you to compare official statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping across the UK, with information provided on each of the four countries.

Strava data licensing for cities

Hundreds of public agencies around the world use Strava Metro to evaluate and improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Strava

Tanzania Data Lab dlab

Tanzania Data Lab dlab

University Of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre - SED, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Promoting innovation and data literacy through a premier center of excellence

Police Rewired

Police Rewired

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

iSeeChange

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

Budget G0V TW

Data visualization and exploration tool for the Taiwanese Central Government General Budget

Human Services Data Specification (HSDS)

HSDS is designed to support the publication of open, interoperable community resource directory data.

Crashmapper NYC

Mapping NYC automobile collisions and their resulting injuries and fatalities

Brookings Democracy Dashboard

Brookings Democracy Dashboard

Brookings Institution, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

Streetcaster

Streetcaster

285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

Cicero

Cicero

990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Legislative district matching and elected official data

Wazimap

Wazimap

South Africa

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

The Movement Cooperative

The Movement Cooperative

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

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

NYC Open Data Week

It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

Democracy Works Elections API

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

Open Australia Foundation

Open Australia Foundation

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

Open Contracting Partnership

Open Contracting Partnership

641 S Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20001, USA

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

Data for Good group

We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

Supernormal

Supernormal

285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

GroundTruth Initiative

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

BERN app

BERN app

Burlington, VT

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

Spot the Box

Spot the Box

United States of America (the)

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

Hush City

Hush City

Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, Germany

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

Mark43

Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.

Berlin swimming map

Aktuelle Badegewässerqualität und Informationen rund um die Berliner Badestellen

Every Boundary

Every Boundary

86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE, United Kingdom

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

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