The Veza online tool is an open data platform developed by Corruption Watch with the goal of improving transparency and accountability in the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Internet insights for social good

CARTO Turns Your Location Data Into Business Outcomes.

Policy Development based on Advanced Geospatial Data Analytics and Visualisation

Canvassing & voter management software

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

Revivn collects excess hardware from your business, secures your data & repurposes your unused tech for a greater cause.

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

Nesta is an innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time.

Open Data meets Liquid Democracy

This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

The Emanuel administration hoped to harness the city’s trove of digital data to improve Chicagoans’ health, safety, and quality of life.

Participation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design.

GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

Validated Real Time Information

We bring together people from the UK, no matter what their background, to stop the Tories from winning another parliamentary majority at the next election. We use electoral data to determine which left-leaning party has the best chance of beating the Tories in 50 of the most marginal seats and support any and all volunteers to get out campaigning.

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

We crack the SCHUFA

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

crowdsourcing environmental data across Victoria.

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

Quality data collection for challenging settings

First Draft is maintaining a database of expert sources on coronavirus for journalists to contact for up-to-date information on the outbreak.

Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

Catalogul aleşilor penali. De consultat înainte să mergem la vot.

Towards better use of development resources. Find out, follow, press forward.

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

to enable data-driven farming

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

A biotech makerspace located in a rural community.

Somos uma união de coletivos formados por mulheres, pessoas negras e LGBT+ com o objetivo de diminuir a distância entre eleitoras/es e candidatas/os comprometidas/os com os direitos sociais, civis e políticos da população.

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

Open Seattle advocates for open data and civic technology projects that improve the lives of Seattle residents.

The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects

An API standard for ride hailing services

At TargetSmart, we make data better every day. And making better data helps our clients make the right decisions, define their audiences more intelligently, and communicate in a more impactful and cost-effective way.

The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy.

Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.

Grab, a ride-hailing platform in Southeast Asia, and the World Bank are developing free, open-source tools that translate Grab’s driver GPS data into traffic statistics, including speeds, flows, and intersection delays.

Ezolwaluko is a provincial Web platform that serves as database for initiates

Using software, policy and data to empower activists and end oppression

How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions

What Works Cities Certification Is The National Standard Of Excellence For Well-managed, Data-driven Local Government.

The first effort to monitor the performance of Iran’s parliament, often referred to as “Majlis”

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

a platform for exploration and visualization of graph-based data

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.