DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

We hope the project will arm activists, advocates, journalists, policy makers, and elected officials with relevant, timely information about how government functions—so we can fix it when it doesn’t.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

• human rights
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Swedish network for collaboration on open data and open source code

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Democracy Technologies' magazine's proprietary database of civic tech platforms with filters for country, functions, and more

• Civic tech catalogs
• Inactive Projects Archive

• Wikipedia

• Data schemas and standards

The Big Tech tracker for mergers and acquisitions provides an overview of companies that have been acquired by Big Tech (2019-2025). Search for a merger!

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Official government portal for open planning and housing data

• housing

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Urban planning

Find errors in your datasets quickly, and learn useful data skills on the go

• Civic data
• Research tools
• General purpose open source tools

The largest dataset of deep seafloor imagery ever assembled, showing "we have visually observed less than 0.001%"

• Life below water

• Crowdsourcing
• Environmental data

This live data platform has been built to combine data from a range of sources (see below) to start to build a picture about social care provision across England.

We are a fictional service provider proposing five speculative data support services.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• General purpose open source tools

The 360Giving Data Standard is a uniform and consistent way to describe grantmaking data.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Data schemas and standards

Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

The Political Party Database Project is a cross-national initiative to establish and update an online public database as a source for key information about political party organizations. Last updated 2022.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Political parties

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Red teaming

Empowering the Human Workforce Behind AI

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Citizen Engagement

Strengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.

• libraries

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open knowledge

The Open Referral organization has released version 3

This article discusses the limitations of traditional platforms and the need for a more collaborative and decentralized approach, introducing PLANET as an open network built on protocols that enables seamless sharing of data and resources across different applications and tools, fostering greater collaboration and collective impact

The blog post discusses the evolution of DataMade, a civic technology company in Chicago, over the past 12 years

This repository contains a simple JSON API for returning the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for a given latitude and longitude

This unconference aims to engage people, particularly those in the public sector, on ensuring that public, community, and worker voices are heard in decisions about data, digital, and AI used in the public sector

The Data Summit is a global event that brings together data and digital leaders from around the world to share insights on overcoming barriers and best practices for using data to power the government of the future

The page provides an overview of the various data sources and infrastructure available for analyzing data related to Wikimedia projects, including data dumps, the MediaWiki API, wiki replicas, recent changes streams, and analytics datasets

How Might We is a cross-sector community in North East England that aims to unleash the power of data, curiosity, and human connection to create a happier, fairer, and more prosperous region

GNU Taler is a privacy-friendly online payment system that aims to make transactions fast and easy, while eliminating fraud and protecting user data by design

The UK National Data Library is a proposed initiative by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to improve access and usability of public sector datasets for researchers and the public good

This workshop aims to celebrate Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and explore approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship

Picto World is a platform that allows users to create and share visual content, such as infographics and data visualizations

Superglue is an open-source data integration platform that automatically extracts, maps, and transforms data from any system into the desired format, eliminating the need for complex integration code

The article discusses the rise of 'quantitative aesthetics', where data and metrics are used to determine artistic and cultural value, as exemplified by the views of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto entrepreneur who claimed he could mathematically prove that Shakespeare was overrated

European Alternatives is a platform that helps users find European alternatives for various digital services and products, such as cloud computing, web analytics, and email providers

This article discusses the efforts by mySociety to create a dataset and archive of citizens assemblies held in the UK, in order to make it easier to find and track these assemblies

The Institute for Government is hosting its annual 'Government 2025' conference, which will explore key questions and challenges facing the UK government in the coming years

This paper proposes a model called Edisum that can generate useful edit summaries for Wikipedia edits at scale

The Open Data Champions initiative celebrates inspiring leaders across the globe who are championing open data practices in the land sector, particularly in the Global South

This tutorial provides an overview of the Wikimedia ecosystem, its public data, and opportunities for academic research