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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

Data 4 Change

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

Nairobi

Pulse Lab Jakarta

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

Jakarta
United Nations

Global Fishing Watch

Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking system used by large fishing vessels.

2014

Dark Data Project

The Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets

Toronto

Politik.ch

Automated monitoring, issue management, analysis and reporting of political affairs.

Seefeldstrasse 123, Zรผrich, Schweiz
2018

Flowminder

Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.

2011

PolyNumeral

Data Science Consulting for Smart Products and Effective Strategy

2012

Strava Metro

Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.

Strava Office, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009
mobility