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Open Government Data

Explore 125 projects in the Open Government Data category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

125 projects
http://www.dati.gov.it/Active

dati.gov.it

Italy's open data portal

Italy
Civic data, Open data publishing portals, Open government data
https://pmg.org.za/Active

Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

Parliamentary Monitoring Group, 2nd floor, Associated Magazines, 21 St. Johns Street, Cape Town 8001
1995
Archives, Election oversight, Open government data, Parliamentary and congressional monitoring, Parliamentary and legislative tech, Voting and elections, Watchdogging and transparency, Watchdogging government
Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/Active

Planning and housing data in England

Official government portal for open planning and housing data

UK
Civic data, Govtech, Open government data, Urban planning
housing
https://goc-spending.github.io/Active

Analyzing GoC Contract Spending

A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.

Canada
2017
Civic data, Data activism, Open government data, Procurement
https://www.datafoundation.org/2022-survey-of-federal-chief-data-officersActive

2022 Survey of Federal Chief Data Officers

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

Washington, DC
Civic data, Digital transformation, Govtech, Open government data
https://congressmcp.lawgiver.ai/ActiveOpen-source

congressMCP

An MCP server allowing AI agents and MCP clients to interface with the Congress.gov API

Austin, TX
2025
Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic data, Civic data APIs, Government transparency, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Natural Language Processing, Open government data, Parliamentary and legislative tech
https://openspending.nl/Active

Open Spending Netherlands

The goal of the project is to publish standardized financial detail data of municipalities, provinces, ministries and other governing bodies on the central platform openspending.nl.

Netherlands
Civic data, Open data publishing portals, Open government data
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/programs/data-skills-for-congressActive

Data Skills for Congress

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

Berkeley, CA, USA
Certifications, Govtech, Open government data, Supporting public sector from outside government
trainings
https://www.govspend.ng/Active

Govspend.ng

While the Open Treasury portal hosts all federal daily treasury reports, GOVSPEND.NG, a platform powered by BudgIT, simplifies the treasury report for citizens and Civil Society Organizations to access, monitor and understand federal government’s real time expenditure.

55 Moleye Street, Alagomeji-Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Advocacy tech, Budget explorers, Open government data, Watchdogging and transparency, Watchdogging government