Open Government Data Apps (59)
Government Level: Municipal
Website listing transit apps built on open transit data. Encourages cities to adopt open transit data by:
- showcasing apps
- collecting signups from citizens
- providing links to information for cities
The System of Community Accounts is an innovative information system providing users at all levels with a reliable source of community, regional, and provincial data.
Report, view, or discuss local problems
(like graffiti, potholes, excessive garbage, or street lighting)
Publish a request for Toronto municipal data, and site members can comment on and rate the request.
VanTrash helps you manage your neighbourhood garbage schedule more effectively.
You can find out your garbage schedule, download the schedule to your calendar or set a reminder to your email. Never forget to take the garbage out again.
MyStops is the quickest and easiest way to check your most frequently-used bus and transit schedules on iPhone and iPod Touch.
Receive emails of civic planning alerts near you.
Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information.
Citizens can use the Safer Streets website to tell your local council and police teams where you feel safe or unsafe in theirr local area and to view local safety information.
Report, view, or discuss local problems (like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting)
The world leader in online crime mapping, with nearly 700 law enforcement partners across North America and Sex Offender Data for all 50 States!
Hosts discussion groups at the neighborhood level for several US cities.
The goal of our community is to develop a free, open source platform to help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats.
Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
Receive crime alerts for your area.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
The goal of the Your Mapper news organization is to be the most effective platform for bringing your community high quality, local data on maps.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
Allows Ottawa residents to subscribe to their garbage shedule via ICal notification.
London, Ontario restaurant inspection scores, mapped.
EveryBlock is a new way to keep track of what's happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.
Government Level: Provincial
Browse, search and share legislative information from the New York State Senate
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
Government Level: Federal
The Library Of Unified Information Sources, an effort, to paraphrase Justice Louis Brandeis, to illuminate the workings of the federal government.
Real Time Congress is the fast and free way to access real-time information about Congress on your iPhone. This app puts the actions, meetings and documents that make up the legislative process right at your fingertips.
A web based visualization of 2009 U.S. congressional legislation.
Info on what your representatives are doing in Ottawa can be hard to find and use. We're trying to make it easy. Browse MPs, or find someone quickly by entering a name or postal code above. See what your representatives are saying, and what laws they're proposing.
Citizen-led Canadian data catalogue.
Since 2003, this project has assessed a total of 67821 expenses claimed.
An application visualizing UK MP expenses, sourced from the Guardian's data set.
First discovered via: Ontario Public Service Web
Official UK site for managing requests to unlock federal data sets.
Congrelate lets you view, sort, filter and share information about members of Congress and their districts.
Foreign Lobbyist Influence Tracker, a joint project of ProPublica and the Sunlight Foundation, digitizes information that representatives of foreign governments, political parties and government-controlled entities must disclose to the U.S. Justice Department when they seek to influence U.S. policy.
Search for past contracts across Canadian government agencies
Afghanistanelectiondata.org is designed to allow users to explore, analyze and visualize the preliminary presidential results for the August 20, 2009, elections.
Site allows users to create 5 min. slices of Canadian parliamentary video feeds, to link to on blogs and newsgroups.
Join us in digging through the documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, or documents that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MP's expenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing.
Tracks UK parliamentary bills. Maintains database of UK parliamentarians and their voting records.
Where Does My Money Go? aims to promote transparency and citizen engagement through the analysis and visualisation of information about UK public spending.
Non-profit website analyzing US federal spending.
Provides social tools for users to track and share bills being debated by congress.
Automatically collects documents on the US Congress from multiple sources.
Databases are accessible in machine-readable format. Acts as a data source for other sites, such as OpenCongress and MAPLight.
US government expenditures.
Scrapes information from Canadian parliamentary hansard. Maintains database of voting records for Canadian parliament members.
Collects government financial disclosures from multiple sources, stores them in a common format. Maintains databases on campaign contributions, expenses, and personal financial disclosures.
Allows users to add comments to sections of bills before congress.
Sorts campaign contributions from the OpenSecrets database into interest group categories. Allows users to visualize relationship between contributions and votes.
White House 2 is a multi-partisan network of 9284 citizens imagining how the White House might work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people over the internet.
Government Level: All
Open Energy Info is a platform to connect the world's energy data. It is a linked open data platform bringing together energy information to provide improved analyses, unique visualizations, and real-time access to data.
Interactive map by the BBC of a decade of car crashes in Britain, using data released by the Department of Transport.
Lets developers access information about Congressional representatives and their votes.
RSS feed aggregator for political representatives.
Want to know how your elected representatives are acting on your behalf? RepresentMe helps you find out who's representing you and what they've done lately.
Mapping and evaluating technology projects that promote transparency, accountability, & civic engagement around the world.
First discovered via: E-Democracy.org
Transparency Corps is the Sunlight Foundation's answer to the question, "How can I help?". There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference.
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages.
We've made it easy for you to make enquiries to data holders about the openness of the material they hold -- and to record publicly the results of those efforts.
The National Data Catalog (NatDatCat) is an open platform for government data sets and APIs. NatDatCat makes it easy to find datasets by and about government, across all levels (federal, state, and local) and across all branches (executive, legislative, and judicial).
GovMapper is a web-based solution for publishing your government data to your citizens. Our ad-free platform makes it inexpensive, lightning fast, and simple to turn your city or state data into dynamic, interactive maps for your website.
Search for government data from the UK (including London), USA, Australia and New Zealand -- and look out for new countries and places as they are added.
