How to publish open data: a list of advice and tools

• guides

• Civic data

The Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Open Data Toolkit is an instructional manual that provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop your open data initiative. It brings together training materials, best practices, tools and resources to help you prepare for and implement an open data project.

• guides

• Open government data

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Digital literacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Open innovation

This list of resources is curated and maintained by MERL Tech and The Engine Room.

• guides

• Civic data
• Ethical tech
• Reading lists

A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe

• guides

• Media
• Digital security and privacy

Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.

• guides
• racial equity
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Civic data

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

• guides

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech
• Digital literacy