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Data Science For Social Good

Explore 104 projects in the Data Science For Social Good category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

104 projects
https://dataimpacts.org/project/climate-modeling/Active

Climate Modeling in Colombia

In a cross-sector partnership led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, The Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano (Colombian Climate and Agricultural Sector; CSAC) provides meteorological data to farmers along with data on the economics and agronomy of rice cultivation.

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Avenida Jimenez De Quesada, Bogota, Colombia
2013
Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
Climate action, agriculture, Zero hunger
http://datacollaboratives.org/cases/electronic-rothamsted-archive-e-ra.htmlActive

Electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA)

Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.

UK
2018
Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
https://aquaya.org/Active

Aquaya

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

San Francisco
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic data, Data science for social good, Machine learning analytics
Clean water and sanitation
https://yoda.yale.edu/johnson-johnsonActive

Johnson & Johnson-Yale Open Data Access Project

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the companyโ€™s clinical trial data assets.

2014
Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
https://hrdag.org/Active

Human Rights Data Analysis Group

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

San Francisco
Adjacent Fields, Civic data, Data science for social good, Emerging Tech report orgs, Legal tech, Tech for public challenges, The Tech
human rights, immigration
http://datacollaboratives.org/Active

Data Collaboratives

creating public value by exchanging data

New York University
2016
Civic tech catalogs, Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
http://datacollaboratives.org/cases/enexis-open-data-agenda.htmlActive

Enexis Open Data Agenda

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

2009
Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
https://dangerousspeech.org/Active

Dangerous Speech Project

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people โ€“ and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

2015
Data science for social good, Fight disinformation, Learn about civic tech, Media, Media and social media analysis, The People
hate speech
http://d4bl.org/ActiveOpen-source

Data for Black Lives

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

USA
2017
Data science for social good, Emerging Tech report orgs, Learn about civic tech, The People
racial equity