The Metadata Quality Assurance is intended to help data providers and data portals to check their metadata against various indicators.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Open government data

A timeline of policy and legal developments on EU open data have taken place since 2003.

• Civic data
• Timelines

The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.

• Civic data
• Artistic interventions
• Digital literacy

Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) AP is a specification for metadata records, enhancing semantic interoperability across European data portals.

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Government Interoperability

CyberWell is the first-ever live database of online antisemitism.

• Civic data
• Content moderation

Paste any Rightmove rental listing URL for instant deal intelligence — market position, negotiation advice, and drop predictions.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Civic maps

Data Docs: Open Data on Screen is a day-long documentary screening program full of films exploring issues New Yorkers care about — street safety, housing, child care, and urban nature — are each paired with NYC Open Data datasets and followed by panel discussions with data experts, City staff, community practitioners, and, where possible, the filmmakers themselves.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Open government data

Continuous data about provably false narratives spreading online — built for false claim detection at scale.

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Content provenance

Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) is a dataset examining the policy positions and organizational structures of political parties across the world.

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Open civic data

The V-Dem Graphing Tools is a platform for making data visualization intuitive, accessible and easy to use

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research tools

V-Dem provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Includes the world's most comprehensive and detailed democracy ratings.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Open civic data

This interactive map is designed to provide evidence on where housing is most needed.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Open-source tools for AI-powered civic data access

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open government data

The City of Aurora's Open Data Portal

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

Upload shapes, join data, color your map.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Open-source real-time city dashboard aggregating 20+ public data feeds (weather, transit, news, air quality, water levels, police reports, and more). Currently covering Berlin. Easy to apply to other cities.

• Civic data
• Dashboards

The New York Climate Exchange is a nonprofit that unlocks climate solutions by activating a unique partner model and climate campus—coming to Governors Island in 2029.

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions

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 deliver better outcomes for residents.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

Build your Data Space from start to finish

• Civic data
• Data Exchanges

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)

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Open philanthropy

Let's build tomorrow's democratic infrastructure together!

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Data integration

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)

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Crowdsourcing

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

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open civic data

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 developing policies that create more accessible, useful curbs.

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Civic data APIs

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

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open civic data

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

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

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open civic data

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

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

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

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Data visualization

"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 department strings, inconsistent titles, etc."

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

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

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing

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.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

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

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Digital rights

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

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

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

• Civic data
• Games and gamification
• Board games

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

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• General purpose open source tools

A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis

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 way.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

PUDL (pronounced puddle) is a data processing pipeline created by Catalyst Cooperative that cleans, integrates, and standardizes some of the most widely used public energy datasets in the US.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Environmental data

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.

• Civic data
• Open civic data

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

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Open civic data

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 action research.

• youth

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Courses

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 better together.

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

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 colleagues to share data responsibly in order to address critical challenges, such as deduplicating data and making referrals.

• toolkits

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

Current and historical data on the Zurich Cantonal Council

• Civic data

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 virtual hackathon will take place remotely from November 7 to 9.

• students

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• Civic hackathons

By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart

• reports

• Civic data
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

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

• neighborhoods

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Community-building resources