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.
Data Science for Social Good (Portugal)
Ajudamos organizações sem fins lucrativos, não governamentais e governamentais a aproveitar o poder dos seus dados, para melhorar o seu impacto na comunidade.
A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI
Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers an...
Voteview
Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideolog...
Impala
By connecting nonprofits and funders in one place, Impala equips you with the data, insights and relationships you need to succeed.
RunningMate
Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.
Public Information Records (PIR)
Civitech’s proprietary data set features nearly 30 million records of unregistered potential voters.
Common Crawl
Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
mxDistritos
The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis
FCA Digital Sandbox
The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable exp...
data.org Guide Finder
Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.
Spatial Equity NYC
Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), v...
Riding Forward: Overhauling Citi Bike’s Contract for Better, More Equitable Service
This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, atten...
Recidiviz
We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.
scrutinize
Data for Judicial Transparency
NYC Funds Tracker
FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.
CivicSearch
CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.
Climate Data Joint Learning Network
The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.
Mobility Data Specification (MDS)
MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.
PoliDashboard
An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP)
Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.
FedGeoDay
FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capa...
Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)
Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.
OpenLitterMap
Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024
A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.
EU Transparency Centre Reports Archive
Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms
Zenodo
The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for...
SHARE LAB
Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues
SHARE MONITORING
Monitoring digital rights violations and online violations in Serbia.
Reliabl
We help platforms transition to community-driven data management.
Local Intelligence Hub
Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.
Civic Infrastructure Scan
To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit tog...
Mapatón Ciudadano
Mapeo colaborativo de rutas de transporte con herramientas de software libre para futuras ciudades sostenibles.
Transport for London and Google Maps collaborate to make cycling better
Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure
The Planning London Datahub
The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring...
Fiscalía Abierta
Parte del programa Justicia Abierta, este es un proyecto integral de apertura institucional, que comprende un software web que permite a las fiscalías sistematizar las solicitudes de acceso a la infor...
Anonimometro
Algorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach
Postcode => Westminster constituency converter
Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to
Wiki Table to CSV converter
Free tool that takes a Wikipedia URL and extracts data to CSV
Every Election
UK elections database with every district council level election and above
Prolific
Easily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale
Data and Public Services Toolkit
The Data and Public Services Toolkit aims to help public authorities make better use of data. It addresses challenges such as: how to make a business case for data use; how to use data ethically and f...
MapIt
The easy way to match points to boundaries
Open Council Data
All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info
Open Data Maturity Scale
Learn about different possible open data interventions, based on level of feasibility and impact
Community Data Dialogues
Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data
Innovatiana
Innovatiana is an Impact Tech startup specialized in Data Labeling for AI.
State-level Digital Transformation Policy Scan: Executive Orders
In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government...
morph.io
Take the hassle out of web scraping
Civic Sight
We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.