UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects

• United Nations

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.

• mobility

• Civic data
• The People
• Data science for social good

Pew Research Center makes most of its datasets available for download once reporting has been completed for a given study. Here's how to find and access our data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.

• Life on land
• forests

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity.

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

• city
• urban planning
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Government transparency

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.

• The People
• Build something
• Data science for social good

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships