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Open government data

Explore 186 projects in the Open government data category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Open government data is one of the most successful civic tech movements, with many of the world's countries, cities, and other regional governance bodies participating by making data available. Encouraging governments to publish valuable data in a clean, understandable, and timely manner is part of this work.

186 projects

Info Scolarité

A site providing information on schooling: fact sheets on primary schools, middle schools and high schools, and guides to help understand procedures and educational pathways.

Data Governance Self-Assessment

The Data Governance Self Assessment is an interactive tool that helps organizations examine the maturity of their data governance practices, identify gaps, and set priorities for action.

2026

z-dykty.pl

z-dykty.pl ('from plywood') is a free Polish public-finance transparency portal that profiles each gmina's debt, spending, tenders and contracts and tracks Sejm votes and MPs' assets.

2026

Housing Data and Technology Innovation Challenge

A nine-week remote open-source challenge to build transparent tools that estimate how state-level housing reforms affect housing supply.

2026

Buildability

Buildability is a platform for researching the viability and risk of building and construction on land plots across the United States.

2026

Coffermap

Coffermap is a free federal spending explorer that shows contract and grant obligations for every US state and county, per resident, with top agencies and contractors.

2026

ENHANCE Cities

ENHANCE Cities is a free interactive mapping tool from UCL's CASA that visualises urban-planning and sustainable-transport indicators, transport accessibility, travel sustainability, brownfield sites, 15-minute-city access, across England and Wales, from national to neighbourhood scale.

Marylebone, London, UK
2026

es·pera

Compara listas de espera sanitarias en España por comunidad, especialidad y proceso, y sigue su evolución semestral con los datos oficiales del SNS.

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain