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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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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

Catalist

Catalist

United States of America (the)

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Working with Catalist can help you build membership, target persuasive messaging, engage activists, drive an issue agenda, and register or mobilize voters.

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

Census Hard to Count Maps

Census Hard to Count Maps

United States of America (the)

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

Sidewalk Labs

Sidewalk Labs

10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, USA

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

SCODA

SCODA

South Africa

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities. These datasets can help cities by supporting the planning, management, monitoring, and reporting needs of cities.

Apollo

Apollo

Washington, DC

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

TV News Archive and captions

Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!

TrialWatch

TrialWatch

United States of America (the)

Microsoft and the Clooney Foundation for Justice have teamed up to create TrialWatch, an app designed to help human rights advocates more easily monitor legal proceedings around the world.

Open Data Atlas

Alle Open Data Portale in Deutschland, Ă–sterreich und der Schweiz.

CityMart

Citymart transforms the way cities solve procurement problems. Citymart is a platform for city government employees to deliver better services, connecting them to urban solutions, projects and peers across departments and around the world.

Urban Archive

Urban Archive

155 Rivington Street, New York, NY, USA

Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.

Giving Balkans

Giving Balkans is a first-of-its-kind database on philanthropy in the Western Balkans.

Constitute Project

Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

Syrian Archive

Syrian Archive

Syrian Arab Republic

Syrian Archive is a open source platform that collects, curates, verifies, and preserves visual documentation of human rights violations in Syria

Datahub

Find, Share and Publish Quality Data Online. The fastest way for individuals, teams and organizations to publish, deploy and share their data.

JobTech Development

JobTech Development

Arbetsförmedlingen Malmö, Föreningsgatan, Malmö, Sweden

JobTech Development är en utvecklingsenhet inom Arbetsförmedlingen Vi erbjuder öppna data och Open Source-teknologi till de som, tillsammans med oss, vill bidra till en väl fungerande arbetsmarknad.

Participedia

Participedia

Vancouver

Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.

Gephi

Gephi

13 rue de l'université, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, France

Makes graphs handy

CouncilStat NYC

CouncilStat NYC

New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents

Ethelo Citizen Budget

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

Health Sites

Health Sites

Netherlands (the)

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

United Kingdom Digital Service Standard

United Kingdom Digital Service Standard

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Service Standard helps teams to create and run great public services.

The Observatory on Social Media

The Observatory on Social Media

107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

Facebook Ad Archive

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

Populus

Populus

San Francisco

A PLATFORM FOR CITIES TO MANAGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

Dataverse

Open source research data repository software

Two Sigma Data Clinic

Two Sigma Data Clinic

Two Sigma, 6th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Our pro bono teams of data scientists and engineers harness the power of data and technology to help nonprofits, government agencies, and academic institutions have greater impact on the communities they serve

Databasic

Databasic

MIT Media Lab

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. These simple tools make it easy to work with data in fun ways, so you can learn how to find great stories to tell.

Housing Data Coalition

Housing Data Coalition

50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United States

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

Skycatch

Drone maps and 3D models processed in the cloud for construction, mining, energy, & more.

ArchiveSocial

ArchiveSocial

212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701

Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency

Ride Report

Ride Report

Portland, OR

From bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.

Civil Cops

Civil Cops

New Delhi

Report Civic & Social Issues through our Artificially Intelligent chat & voice interfaces integrated onto all the major social media channels

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

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

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

Paint the Town

Paint the Town

New York, NY

Paint the Town is a collaborative data art project. It allows anyone to paint a New York City tax lot to any color they choose.

MyData

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

Preteckt

Preteckt

88 Union Ave, Memphis, Tennessee 38103, United States

Preteckt studies vehicle data from buses to predict system failures at least 48 hours before the Check Engine light is activated and the bus must be removed from service. Preteckt’s insights have the potential to reduce time spent on maintenance, prevent service disruptions and reduce fleet costs.

Apple Maps COVID-19 Testing Locations

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

Transit.land

Transit.land

Bay Area, CA, USA

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

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