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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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Displacement Alert Portal

Displacement Alert Portal

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

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

The ODI's Data Ethics Canvas

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

Code for Australia Wildlife Incidents and Emergencies

A web application to connect the general public with the large network of shelters and rescue organisations when people run into wildlife in distress.

vis.gl

vis.gl

Uber HQ, Market Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Uber's open-source, WebGL-powered visualization frameworks

Dadeh

Dadeh

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Visualizing Iran

Humanitarian Data Exchange

Humanitarian Data Exchange

The Hague, Netherlands

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

JKAN

A lightweight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll

Code for Democracy

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

MapIt UK

MapIt UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

Lawyers Hub

The Lawyers Hub exists to provide a nexus between Law and Technology and uses technology as a leverage and improve access to justice and the business of law. Community of Lawyers in Africa promoting Access to Justice through Innovation and Technology.

Open Connectivity Foundation

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification. The OCF’s vision for IoT is that billions of connected devices (devices, phones, computers and sensors) will communicate with one another regardless of manufacturer, operating system, chipset or transport. With the OCF fulfilling this promise, anyone – from a large technology company to a maker in their garage – can adopt the open standards of OCF to innovate and compete, helping ensure secure interoperability for consumers, business, and industry.

Outreach Grid

Outreach Grid

Irvine, CA

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

Zooniverse

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

Code for Science and Society

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

Census Reporter

Census Reporter provides useful facts about every place in America. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site!

Perimeter

Perimeter

Bay Area, CA, USA

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

OpenAQ

OpenAQ

1226 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

MapAction

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

GEOIDEA.RO

GEOIDEA.RO

Romania

Geoidea.ro stands for GEodata Openness Initative for Development and Economic Advancement in ROmania and started in January 2013. It aims at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania

Veovo

Veovo

Auckland, New Zealand

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

Fogo Cruzado

Fogo Cruzado

Rio de Janeiro

Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database. It is a collaborative digital platform that aims to record the incidence of shootings and the prevalence of armed violence in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and Recife.

Canadian Open Data Society

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

AuroraSaurus

AuroraSaurus

New Mexico

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

How's my Driving NYC

How's my Driving NYC

NYC Department of Finance - Financial Business Center, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Search New York City parking & camera violations

OpenBudget.ro

Open Budget este o platformă care îţi permite să vizualizezi bugetul statului român şi să modifici felul in care sunt alocate fondurile publice.

EU Datathon

EU Datathon

Brussels, Belgium

event aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union

SandDance

Visually explore, understand, and present data SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data. SandDance provides ease of use for data visualizations, pattern identification, trends, and insights. It provides better decision-making capabilities through its dynamic and customizable interface, allowing views of both aggregate and individual […]

Otwarte Dane

Otwarte Dane

Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, Królewska, Warsaw, Poland

Central repository of Polish open public data.

Coord

Coord

New York City

Cities and towns of all sizes are struggling to ensure compliance, safety, and efficiency along the curb. Coord makes it easy to collect, manage, and share curb data.

Impact Management Project

Impact Management Project

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

Open By-laws South Africa

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

data.gouv.fr

Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises

Civic Data Library of Context

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

Congressional Data Coalition

We believe Congress should publish legislative information in formats both humans and computers can make sense of. Our mission is to promote greater transparency, preservation, and access to Congressional data.

Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

USA Facts

USA Facts

Vance Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States

Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.

Knoema

Knoema’s database features more than 2.4b time series from 1k+ sources.

Candid

Candid

32 Old Slip, 24th Floor New York, NY 10005

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

Indicator Toolbox

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

Blue Button

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

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