Data activism

Data activism campaigns are initiatives that leverage data collection, analysis, and dissemination to drive social, political, or environmental change, often by highlighting specific issues, advocating for policy changes, or mobilizing community action.

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InternetBolivia.org
internetbolivia.org

InternetBolivia.org

Organización ciudadana para la defensa de derechos digitales y el uso ético del internet en Bolivia

La Paz, Bolivia
Ethical tech and responsible tech, Digital rights, Data activism
Global South Alliance
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
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
SHARE LAB
labs.rs

SHARE LAB

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

Serbia (Srbija) 🇷🇸
Civil society research outfits, Data activism, Civic data
Openstat Madagascar
openstat-madagascar.com

Openstat Madagascar

Open data platform in Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara) 🇲🇬
since 2018
Open data publishing portals, Civic data, Open government data
Data Playbook V1
preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook-toolkit-v1

Data Playbook V1

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

since 2016
Data activism, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Digital literacy
guides, toolkits
Indigenous data sovereignty
opendevelopmentmekong.net/programmes/indigenous-data-sovereignty

Indigenous data sovereignty

Policy decisions on and resource allocations for IEM tend to be made with inadequate data. The focus of the IDS programme is to coordinate a transboundary effort to develop indigenous data with indige...

Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭
Civic data, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Data activism
indigenous
Analyzing GoC Contract Spending
goc-spending.github.io

Analyzing GoC Contract Spending

A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.

Canada 🇨🇦
since 2017
Procurement, Data activism, Open government data
Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nacNWHfq1B6SrOC_Dyd-R908qsANeTACG6FibLl9Jls/edit

Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation

since 2017
Algorithmic transparency, Data activism, Ethical tech and responsible tech
InsideAirbnb
insideairbnb.com

InsideAirbnb

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.

since 2015
Adjacent Fields, Specific campaigns, Civic data
Airbnb
TNCS Today San Francisco
tncstoday.sfcta.org

TNCS Today San Francisco

Data map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco

San Francisco
since 2018
Adjacent Fields, Specific campaigns, Civic data
mobility
Safecast
safecast.org

Safecast

since 2011
Adjacent Fields, Specific campaigns, Data activism
air quality, radiation
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