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Civic data

This page curates everything from open government data to visualization tools to data standards to algorithmic implementation. The only common thread is that all these data and data products share a commitment to civic interests.

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Upward Mobility Data Dashboard
upward-mobility.urban.org/dashboard

Upward Mobility Data Dashboard

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

Dashboards, Civic data, Civic maps
Reduced inequalities, No poverty
Food and Agriculture Organization Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
data.apps.fao.org/?lang=en

Food and Agriculture Organization Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform

The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.

Civic data, Open civic data, Dashboards
United Nations, agriculture, Zero hunger
Visor Electroal Concejo 2024 - 2027
app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZDA4MDZhZjYtMTk3OC00MWE5LWIwODEtZGZkZGZjMjZiYzFkIiwidCI6IjE2YWY2YjQ1LTAwYzUtNGJhMy05ZDRjLThiZmExNmU0MzYwMyIsImMiOjR9&pageName=ReportSectionef168757ecb14421be70

Visor Electroal Concejo 2024 - 2027

Vote map and data dashboard showing support for elected representatives in Cali, Colombia

Colombia 🇨🇴
Civic data, Dashboards, Voting and elections
Jarbas Dashboard
jarbas.serenata.ai/dashboard/chamber_of_deputies/reimbursement

Jarbas Dashboard

Jarbas, a public panel of [Brasilian] parliamentary reimbursements, where suspicious purchases are easily accessible for public scrutiny.

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency, Procurement oversight
デジタル空間社会連携研究機構 (Digital Sapital Society (DSS))
dss.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構 (Digital Sapital Society (DSS))

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通

Tokyo
Academia, Research and policy centers, Civic data
Constituency Explorer
campaign-lab-constituency-explorer.c6digital.dev

Constituency Explorer

A tool to help you run local campaigns with local data.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Civic data, Organize campaigns, Data activism
Air Quality Stripes
airqualitystripes.info

Air Quality Stripes

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

Data visualization, Civic data, Environmental data
air quality
FireBench
sites.research.google/gr/wildfires/firebench

FireBench

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity s...

Mountain View, CA
Civic data, Environmental data, Digital twins (of places)
fires
Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/counting-feminicide

Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

Civic data, Advocacy tech, Data activism
women, Gender Equality, books
udata
udata.readthedocs.io/en/stable

udata

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

France 🇫🇷
Civic data, Open data publishing platforms
¿Cómo Crear Historia con Datos?
datos.gov.co/stories/s/xa3t-qfub

¿Cómo Crear Historia con Datos?

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

Colombia 🇨🇴
Civic data, Data visualization, Story tech
InvenioRDM
inveniordm.web.cern.ch

InvenioRDM

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

Civic data, Open data publishing platforms
Google Censorship
googlecensorship.org

Google Censorship

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

China (Zhong Guo) 🇨🇳
Access to information, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Civic data
Google, free speech
OpenGovLoc
adisicameroun.org

OpenGovLoc

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accounta...

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun) 🇨🇲
since 2022
Access to information, Digital rights, Journalism
Kepler
kepler.gl

Kepler

Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.

Mapping tools, Civic data
Transforming Flanders digitally
vlaanderen.be/en/authorities/flemish-resilience/transforming-flanders-digitally

Transforming Flanders digitally

The Government of Flanders is developing the digital talents of all people of Flanders. It valorises data as a raw material of the economy and society and is working on the digital transformation of p...

Flanders
Digital transformation, Civic data, Open government data
Cali Cómo Vamos
calicomovamos.org.co/quienes-somos

Cali Cómo Vamos

Cali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Ed...

Cali
Civic data, Participatory democracy, Evaluate impact
city, Sustainable cities and communities
LookerStudio
lookerstudio.google.com/overview

LookerStudio

Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.

Mountain View, CA
Civic data, Data visualization, Dashboards
Google, commercial
Datos que hacen ciudad
view.genially.com/641b44ac2ca1dd0017964605/interactive-content-datos-que-hacen-ciudad

Datos que hacen ciudad

El programa Cali Cómo Vamos, el laboratorio ciudadano Mi Cali Contrata Bien, la Unidad de Acción Vallecaucana y el observatorio Cali Visible, ponen a disposición una ruta de obtención de datos referid...

Cali
Civic data, Indicators, Evaluate impact
city, Sustainable cities and communities
Domestic Data Streamers
domesticstreamers.com

Domestic Data Streamers

We are a research and design studio partnering up with organisations to build change through data, community, and arts.

Carrer Papin 33, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Social impact design firms, Civic data, Artistic interventions
Chicago Truck Count
chicagotruckcounts.cnt.org

Chicago Truck Count

Counting trucks for environmental justice

Smart Cities and sensors, Cameras, Civic data
air quality, Reduced inequalities, city
Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation
cloudnativegeo.org

Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation

The Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.

Washington, DC
Mapping tools, Mapping, Civic data
Data Zetu
notaka.org/digital-knowledge-centre

Data Zetu

This project is using geospatial technology to solve the climate mobility data gap and inform required food security and planning interventions.

Tanzania, United Republic of (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) 🇹🇿
Environmental data, Civic data
migration, Climate action
Arkam (أرقام - مرحبا بيك)
arkam.tn/?from=idaraty

Arkam (أرقام - مرحبا بيك)

Arkam gathers, analyzes and presents relevant data on public policies in Africa to promote transparent and effective governance.

Tunisia (Tunis) 🇹🇳
Civic data, Access to laws, Open data publishing portals
Give Food
givefood.org.uk

Give Food

We're a UK charity that uses data to highlight local and structural food insecurity then provides tools to help alleviate it.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Civic data, Civic maps, Access social benefits
Zero hunger
UK Local Stats
localstats.uk

UK Local Stats

Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2024
Civic data
local
UK Constituency Data Hex Maps
constituencies.open-innovations.org

UK Constituency Data Hex Maps

This site maps data about UK constituencies on hex maps (cartograms). We have created several themes (economy, energy, environment, health, society, and transport) and have filled those with separate...

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Civic data, Civic maps
Base dos Dados
basedosdados.org

Base dos Dados

Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produ...

Rio de Janeiro
Civic data, Open data publishing portals
duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky++Data%20For%20Small%20Communities%20-%20U.S.%20Bureau%20of%20the%20Census%20-%20Factfinder%20For%20the%20Nation+United%20States.%20Bureau%20of%20the%20Census

Data For Small Communities

Describing data coverage for U.S. small communities via Census Bureau publications

since 1981
Civic data
books, census, local
play.google.com/store/books/details?id=yeKKL4gg6DoC&rdid=book-yeKKL4gg6DoC&rdot=1

Census data for community action

since 1978
Data science for social good, Civic data
books, census
adisicameroun.org/#

ADISI - CAMEROUN

ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun) 🇨🇲
since 2010
Civic data, Open civic data, Access to information
New York City Official Public Restrooms Map
google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15bUbaKsobajdGL6HLmUpmBuZ_6ILtVQ&hl=en&ll=40.725273278005005%2C-73.99318880939128&z=14

New York City Official Public Restrooms Map

THE NYC public toilet Google map

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
Civic maps, Civic data
UGhub
nita.go.ug/ughub

UGhub

NITA-U is integrating all MDA systems to the UGhub Systems Integration Platform so as to enable seamlessly sharing of data across Government systems in a rational, secure, efficient and sustainable ma...

Uganda 🇺🇬
Govtech, Data integration, Civic data
Planning for Informality
app.planning4informality.org.za

Planning for Informality

(with Isandla Institute)

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa
Civic data, Report cards and audits
informal settlements, housing, city
Overture Maps Foundation
overturemaps.org

Overture Maps Foundation

Powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data

Mapping platforms, Mapping, Civic data
Disability Data Standard
boston.gov/equity-and-inclusion/disability-data-standard

Disability Data Standard

We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.

Boston
since 2024
Data schemas and standards, Civic data, Assistive and Accessible Tech
Gobernantes.info
gobernantes.info

Gobernantes.info

Datos verificados de personas candidatas y gobernantes para combatir la desinformación y promover la democracia en América Latina.

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Civic data, Archives
Abrimos.info
abrimos.info

Abrimos.info

En Abrimos.info combinamos nuestra experiencia abriendo datos con amplias capacidades narrativas, investigativas y de desarrollo para crear bases de datos fiables y verificadas que promueven el conoci...

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency, Procurement
Access to Information Community of Practice, TICTeC 25
Data 4 Public Good
tciamn.org/d4pg

Data 4 Public Good

Data 4 Public Good is a collective space where we share insights, learnings, and have conversations on topics including; Digital justice, Afrofuturism, Data and data privacy, AI and much more. We aim...

Minneapolis
The People, Meet the others, In-person meetings
DataFest Africa
datafest.africa

DataFest Africa

DataFest Africa is an event that seeks to celebrate data use in the East African region by bringing together various stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, such as government, civil society, donors, a...

East Africa
The People, Meet the others, In-person meetings
Newsbank
newsbank.com/publishers/solutions/digital-historical-news-archives

Newsbank

Providing easy access to the world's largest repository of reliable information

since 1972
Journalism, Archives, Civic data
Land & Carbon Lab
duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky+++

Land & Carbon Lab

Land & Carbon Lab partners with leading scientists and technologists to harness the power of artificial intelligence and geospatial monitoring to build cutting edge, open access monitoring systems for...

Environmental data, Civic data
Climate action, Responsible consumption and production, Life on land
Hansard
hansard.parliament.uk

Hansard

The official report of all Parliamentary debates. Find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.

London
since 2018
Parliamentary and legislative tech, Archives, Civic data
Hashtag Generation
hashtaggeneration.org

Hashtag Generation

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation...

Colombo, Sri Lanka
since 2015
Civic data, Diversity & Inclusion, Fight disinformation
Issue, hate speech, Peace, justice, and strong institutions
Voices of Venezuela
voicesofvenezuela.com

Voices of Venezuela

Voices of Venezuela (VOV) is committed to empowering Venezuelan migrants through innovative, AI-powered solutions and community-driven initiatives.

Latin America
Bots, Story tech, Hotlines
immigration, migration, WhatsApp
527 Explorer
projects.propublica.org/527-explorer

527 Explorer

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organiz...

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2024
Watchdogging and transparency, Social and financial connections, Civic data
dataforcrisis.com

Data For Crisis

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practition...

Tallinn
since 2021
Media and social media analysis, Civic data, Data science for social good
refugees, COVID-19
Joining the Dots
peps.directoriolegislativo.org/colombia

Joining the Dots

"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in th...

Av. Entre Rios 258 3E (1079 - Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires - Argentina)
Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency, Civic data
Falling Fruit
fallingfruit.org/?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=en

Falling Fruit

Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest.

Boulder, CO
Civic maps, Crowdsourcing, Civic data
Zero hunger, Sustainable cities and communities
An Analysis and Deep Dive Into New York City Subways
public.tableau.com/app/profile/alex.borelli1627/viz/AnAnalysisandDeepDiveIntoNewYorkCitySubways/Story1

An Analysis and Deep Dive Into New York City Subways

A Tableau data visualization and analysis of public transit in NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2024
Data visualization, Civic data
mass transit
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