Civic data

research-template--innovate-us.netlify.app/innovateus-research

Observatory of Public Sector AI

By analyzing how public employees learn, use, and adapt AI at work, the Observatory aims to identify which investments in skills and training strengthen government capacity, improve services, and deli...

Boston

Artificial Intelligence, Internal government tech capacity, Civic data

startinblox.com

Startin'blox

Build your Data Space from start to finish

Paris

Civic data, Data Exchanges

humanrightsfunding.org

Advancing Human Rights

The Advancing Human Rights initiative is a research project to document the landscape of foundation funding for human rights and track changes in its scale and priorities. (data spanning 2011 - 2021)

Open philanthropy, Get funding, Civic data

opensourcepolitics.eu/democracy-data-space

Democracy Data Space

Let's build tomorrow's democratic infrastructure together

Liberte Living-Lab, rue d'Alexandrie, Paris, France

Civic data, Open civic data, Civic platform interoperability

www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/constituicao-dos-sonhos-en

Sugestões da população para a Assembleia Nacional Constituinte de 1988

Learn about the history of the 72,000 letters sent by citizens to the Brazilian Constitutional Convention and how to consult them, and the Sistema de Apoio Informático à Constituinte (SAIC)

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

since 1986

Archives, Constitutions, Crowdsourcing

democratic-erosion.org/dataset

Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED)

The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED) records discrete events related to democratic erosion and autocratic consolidation across countries and over time.

United States of America 🇺🇸

Civic data, Open civic data, Democracy organizations

cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/abs/politically-invisible-in-america/D5DFD71C3FFCE0E2D021A16EA46F1A25

Politically Invisible in America

Study finds at least 23% of the US population isn't included in the Voter File

United States of America 🇺🇸

Peer-reviewed research, Civic data, Evidence-driven campaigning

openmobilityfoundation.org/about-cds

Curb Data Specification (CDS)

A digital tool that helps cities and companies pilot and scale dynamic curb zones. CDS provides a mechanism for expressing static and dynamic regulations, measuring activity at the curb, and developin...

California

Data schemas and standards, Curb management, Civic data

datahub.io/collections/d/itiner-e

Itiner-e

A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

Rome

since 2025

Civic maps, Civic data, Open civic data

github.com/microsoft/USBroadbandUsagePercentages

Microsoft US Broadband Usage Percentages

We are publishing this dataset we developed as part of our efforts with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative to help close the rural broadband gap.

Civic data, Open civic data, Connectivity

docs.source.coop

Source Cooperative

Source allows trusted organizations and individuals to publish data of any kind at any scale without needing to build or maintain their own infrastructure.

Washington, DC

Civic data, Open civic data, Open data publishing platforms

source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data

Archive of Data.gov

This repository is maintained by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab as part of our project to preserve U.S. federal public data.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Civic data, Open civic data, Open government data

data-hub.berlin

Data Hub Berlin Prototyp

Die zentrale & modulare Infrastruktur für Datenprojekte. Für eine digitale Verwaltung, die wirkt.

CityLAB Berlin

since 2025

Civic data, Open civic data, Open data publishing portals

pypi.org/project/humanmint

humanmint

"A small Python library I've built for cleaning messy human-centric data: HumanMint, a completely open-source library. Think government contact records with chaotic names, weird phone formats, noisy...

since 2025

Civic data, General purpose open source tools, Open government data

essentialdata.us

America's Essential Data

America's Essential Data is a collaborative effort dedicated to documenting the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American lives and livelihoods.

Washington, DC

Civic data, Open government data, Crowdsourcing

essentialdata.us/in-memoriam.html

the Dearly Departed Dataset Graveyard

This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025.

United States of America 🇺🇸

Civic data, Open government data, Crowdsourcing

core.unesco.org/en/home

UNESCO Core Data Portal

This portal provides information and reports about the work done by UNESCO.

Civic data, Open civic data, Open data publishing portals

opendatachina.org

Open Data China

We are a social enterprise in China applying open principles to shaping and governing the digital future

Shanghai

Civic data, Open civic data, Data governance

github.com/opendataboardgame/game

Open Data Board Game

The Open Data Board Game is a board game built around the creation of tools using data.

Civic data, Board games, Games and gamification

kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and-commentary/better-access

Better Access: Data for the Common Good

A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data

since 2025

Civic data, Media and social media analysis

cosmos.gl/?path=/docs/welcome-to-cosmos-gl--docs

cosmos.gl

a high-performance WebGL library for visualizing network graphs and machine learning embeddings.

Network visualizations, Machine learning, Civic data

datacollective.mozillafoundation.org

Mozilla Data Collective

Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre. Access over 300 high-quality global datasets, built by and for the community in a transparent and ethical wa...

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA

since 2025

Civic data, Open civic data, Open data publishing portals

catalyst.coop/pudl

The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) Project - Catalyst Cooperative

The Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project is an open source python ETL pipeline that takes publicly available information about the US electricity sector and makes it publicly usable.

Boulder, CO

Civic data, Open civic data, Environmental data

opendatahub.com

Open Data Hub

Open Data Hub is an open platform designed to provide access to high-quality datasets and APIs for various sectors, enabling innovation and collaboration across industries.

Bolzano, Italy

Civic data, Open civic data

openparliament.ca/api

OpenParliament API

Providing a JSON-based API layer over openparliament.ca’s structured parliamentary data for developers.

Ottawa

Open civic data, Civic data, Civic data APIs

ctdatahaven.org/blog/new-youth-leadership-opportunities-and-data-datahaven

DataHaven Youth Advisory Council

The DataHaven Youth Advisory Council (DHYAC) has created a model for democratizing data and AI literacy by equipping young people with practical skills to interpret and apply data for participatory ac...

Connecticut

Digital literacy, Civic data, Courses

youth

datastew.org

Data Stewardship Toolkit

As humanitarian organisations, we often need to share data in order to help households and communities more efficiently and effectively. We developed this Toolkit as a resource to help you and your co...

since 2025

Data governance, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Civic data

toolkits

civicliteraci.es

Civic Literacy Initiative (cli)

CLI is a data-driven nonprofit aiming to be the interface to unlocking civic organizations’ potential: we equip both funders and civic organizations in making the best use of data, helping them work b...

Civic data, Digital literacy

inzh.ch/kantonsrat

in Zurich

Current and historical data on the Zurich Cantonal Council

Zurich

Civic data

instagram.com/coafina_hackathon

CoAfina hackathon

At CoAfina 2025, university students from across Latin America will have the opportunity to develop collaborative solutions to scientific and educational challenges using open access data. This virtua...

Latin America

since 2025

Civic hackathons, Civic data, Meet the others

students

iddp.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5791/files/2025-09/iddp_smm_report_sep_2025.pdf?utm_source=indicator.media&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=briefing-the-brakes-are-completely-off-at-meta&_bhlid=65b3b336e86c8d80e1cfacb2ae75bbe4c2a5a8cd

From Dashboards to Data Acquisition: Charting the Social Media Monitoring Market

By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC

since 2025

Big listening, Media and social media analysis, Media

reports

relationaltechproject.org/remix#:~:text=and%20community%20engagement.-,Neighborhood,-API

Neighborhood API

A minimal, open, stewarded feed format for sharing local events, assets, dreams, plans, and notices across neighborhood websites, tools, and communities.

San Francisco

Civic data APIs, Civic data, Community-building resources

neighborhoods

lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/visuel/2024/05/15/300-contaminants-dans-nos-nappes-polluant-par-polluant-notre-analyse-des-eaux-souterraines-en-france_6233361_4355770.html

Trois cents contaminants dans nos nappes: polluant par polluant, notre analyse des eaux souterraines en France

Le Monde investigation into groundwater chemicals in France

France 🇫🇷

Journalism, Media, Civic data

brgm.fr/en/website/ades-groundwater-data-access-portal

ADES - Groundwater data access portal

ADES is the national groundwater data access portal for metropolitan France and overseas departments. It gathers quantitative and qualitative data on groundwater on a public website.

Orléans, France

Open government data, Civic data, Open data publishing portals

Clean water and sanitation

gijn.org/stories/le-monde-investigate-france-contaminated-groundwater/?mc_cid=1646529cf9&mc_eid=0e6069c3ed&utm_source=indicator.media&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=briefing-the-brakes-are-completely-off-at-meta&_bhlid=dd6c98fbcb99b55afddd20b5744914163e10b22c

How a Le Monde Team Uncovered 300 Contaminants in France’s Groundwater

A behind the scenes telling of how the international team collaborated with NGOs, scientists, funders, and newsrooms to combine open government data, mapping, and data journalism to produce the piece.

Paris

since 2025

Journalism, Media, Civic data

Clean water and sanitation

protomaps.com

Protomaps

Protomaps is a free, customizable map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.

Mapping, Mapping platforms, Civic data

civic-switchboard.github.io

Civic Switchboard

Civic Switchboard is an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported effort that aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems.

Pittsburgh, PA

Civic data, Community-building resources

libraries

civic-switchboard.gitbook.io/guide

Civic Switchboard Guide

[A] living document designed to help libraries become more engaged in their local civic data ecosystems [including a guide to mapping your ecosystem]

Pittsburgh, PA

Community-building resources, Civic data, Civic tech community surveys

datos.congreso.gov.py/opendata/index

Datos Abiertos Legislativos Paraguay

En este portal se pueden acceder a información relevante respecto de la Tramitación de un Proyecto de Ley en el Congreso Nacional, información de los Parlamentarios, Comisiones asesoras, Sesiones plen...

Asunción, Paraguay

since 2015

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Open data publishing portals

riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/riksdagens-oppna-data

Riksdagens öppna data

Riksdagens öppna data

Stockholm

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Open data publishing portals

dati.camera.it

dati.camera.it

Il portale dei dati aperti della Camera dei deputati promuove l'accesso, il riuso e la condivisione dei dati della Camera, a favore della partecipazione democratica, della trasparenza e dell'interoper...

Rome

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Open data publishing portals

data.senat.fr

data.senat.fr

Bienvenue sur le site data.senat.fr, le site Open Data du Sénat.

Paris

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Civic data, Open civic data

members-api.parliament.uk/index.html

UK Parliament Members API

An API which retrieves Members data.

London

Civic data, Civic data APIs, Open government data

dati.senato.it/sito/home

dati.senato.it

Il punto per l'accesso diretto ai dati del Senato della Repubblica. Aggiornamenti quotidiani di informazioni facilmente e liberamente utilizzabili (dati aperti) che riguardano ogni aspetto dell'attivi...

Rome

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Open data publishing portals

camara.cl/transparencia/datosAbiertos.aspx

Datos Abiertos Legislativos (Camara de Chile)

En esta sección se puede acceder a los antecedentes que se producen con ocasión de la tramitación de un proyecto de ley, información de los parlamentarios y leyes ya publicadas, en un formato que perm...

Valparaíso

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Civic data

opendata.congreso.cl

Datos Abiertos Legislativos (Congresso Nacional de Chile)

El Congreso Nacional pone a disposición de la ciudadanía su iniciativa de DATOS ABIERTOS LEGISLATIVOS, que se enmarca en el principio de Transparencia y acercamiento de la labor legislativa que se des...

Valparaíso

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Civic data

data.parliament.scot/#/home

Scottish Parliament Open Data

Welcome to the Scottish Parliament’s open data portal.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Civic data, Open government data, Open data publishing portals

nysenate.gov/open-data

Open Data at The New York State Senate

The documents, facts, figures, and reports that affect the processes, or are a result of the processes, of the New York Senate.

Albany, NY

Civic data, Open government data, Open data publishing portals

state

data.stortinget.no

Stortinget Åpne data

Stortingets datatjeneste tilbyr uttrekk fra databaser som benyttes i Stortingets parlamentariske saksbehandling.

Oslo, Norway

Parliamentary and legislative tech, Government transparency, Open data publishing portals

citizendata.com

Citizen Data

We provide data, insights, and tools for social impact organizations

Washington, DC

Civic data, Campaign messaging, Organize campaigns