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CitySDK is a “service development kit” for cities and developers that aims at harmonizing application programming interfaces (APIs) across cities.

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SeamlessGov empowers governments to go paperless and deliver better online services to citizens and staff through an innovative suite of tools including an intuitive online form builder.

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NationalMap is an online map-based tool to allow easy access to spatial data from Australian government agencies.

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We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

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All The Data, For We The People

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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).

Open Data meets Liquid Democracy

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Public contracts awarded in Slovak Republic since 2009

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This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

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

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Serwis internetowy Urzędu Miejskiego w Starachowicach.

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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.

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Open Government initiative by the Nariño department in Colombia, combining approaches in collaborative economy and social innovation.

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

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The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects. Taking open data as an example, through the Open Source Program or Crowd Sourcing, data in different fields are transparent, the problem of information circulation is solved, and the citizen's right to know is expanded.

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DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers. DataFirst also offers training to African data managers and researchers.The data the Open Data Portal provides datasets, studies and surverys carried out by universities, private organisations and government departments. In 2016 UCT Data First had about 37 047 online usage.

Enigma is an operational data management and intelligence company. We place data into the context of the real world and make it connected, open, and actionable.

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ePaństwo Foundation's aim is to develop democracy, open and transparent authorities and civic engagement.

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The commission shall publish annually a directory of the computerized information produced or maintained by city agencies which is required by law to be publicly accessible.

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School Finder is an online tool for parents or guardians to find the right school for their kids.

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free public access portal to more than 6.4 million state and federal court decisions encompassing 360 years of American case law

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Political party transparency made easy

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To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

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Code for Nashville is Nashville's Code for America Brigade. We are volunteers who collaborate with Metro government to promote open data and build civic apps.

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The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) runs the Data.gov.za web platform which catalogues and links to existing open data sets on external websites but also hosts data on behalf of government departments and agencies. These datasets can be used in commercial and non commercial ways.

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Light into the darkness of the corporate network

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This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources.

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Join more than 1,000 government organizations using Socrata to put their data online, share insights, and make data-driven decisions.

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Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.

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Die Oö. Landesregierung unterstützt durch ihren Beschluss vom 29. Oktober 2012 die nachhaltige Entwicklung der Informationsgesellschaft und Bürgerbeteiligung nach den Grundsätzen Transparenz, Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit.

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This tool will help you to compare official statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping across the UK, with information provided on each of the four countries.

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Open government data portal

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A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

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Open data and civic tech can serve the public good, but they need to be understood in relation to underlying issues in the city.

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MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

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Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

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Land Steiermark - Open Government Data

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Welkom op Apps For Ghent, de site voor de Gentse Open Data community. Dit is een samenwerking tussen de Stad Gent, Open Knowledge België en het Ghent Living Lab. Apps for Ghent wil via projecten, events en co-creatie het potentieel van open data in Gent maximaal benutten en de mogelijkheden ervan bij zoveel mogelijk mensen bekend maken.

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Find Swiss Open Government data

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If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

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g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

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Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

Central repository of Polish open public data.

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BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

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