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Civic Data

Explore 828 projects in the Civic Data category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

828 projects

CoAfina hackathon

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.

Latin America
2025
students

WhoWasInCommand

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
peace, human rights, "Peace, justice, and strong institutions"

California Cradle-to-Career Data System

A statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.

California
state, Quality education

Vision Zero NYC map

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

New York City Department of Transportation, Queens Plaza North, Long Island City, NY, USA
2014
mobility

Beirut Urban Observatory

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon

Streetwyze

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

2019
apps

False Claim Fingerprints

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

Data for Justice Project

We hope the project will arm activists, advocates, journalists, policy makers, and elected officials with relevant, timely information about how government functions—so we can fix it when it doesn’t.

Massachusetts

Missing Numbers

a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't

UK
2019