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Data Governance

Explore 43 projects in the Data Governance category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

43 projects

Data Governance

Data Governance is an important component of enabling our mission because we believe that while the world needs better quality and more granular data to achieve its development goals, people’s rights must also be protected zealously. In partnership with Amnesty International, the Open Institute aims to bring together expertise in data for human rights and data for development towards strengthening data governance in Kenya and Africa as a whole

Kenya
https://to.community/ActiveOpen-source

To Community

To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.

USA
coop

City Pact for Digital Rights and Democratic Technologies

The City Pact for Digital Rights and Democratic Technologies is born with a clear mission: to ensure that digitalization in Barcelona is fair, equitable, and sustainable.

Barcelona, Spain

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.

United Nations Foundation
2024
Climate action

Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG)

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

The Hague, Netherlands
2020

Data Stewardship Toolkit

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.

2025
toolkits

Interconexión.lat

Interconexión.lat es una plataforma que impulsa el intercambio y co-producción de datos entre organizaciones de sociedad civil en América Latina para hacer frente a retos transfronterizos y hacer eficientes los esfuerzos de la región.

Latin America

IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action

While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.

The Hague, Netherlands
2021

Wikidata Embedding Project

The project’s aim is to enhance the search functionality of Wikidata by integrating vector-based semantic search.

Berlin
2025
Wikipedia