Useful Links Gallery



The InTAcT Links Gallery showcases useful tools that are related to the InTAcT project content, but not produced by this project. Recognising that there are many valuable tools and products available that cities can benefit from, the project team has compiled a curated database of relevant tools. Each item has been carefully selected, reviewed and briefly summarised. The summary of each tool includes a brief description, what the tool can be used for, who owns it and where to access it. The tools featured in the gallery include API’s, databases, diagnostic tools, frameworks, guidelines, mapping tools, mobile applications, portals, toolkits, websites, etc. They have been grouped by topic and can also be searched for by keyword.

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This toolkit is for you, a user within a South African municipality, to aid you in wrangling this beast called "open data" and what, why and how to go about imp...

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An initiative of the National Treasury, which has collected extensive municipal financial data over several years and would like to share this information with ...

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Publishes easily accessible national government budget data in a user-friendly format, to enable more effective information sharing, analyses and research, maki...

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Provides data from National levels down to ward level in a user friendly and easy to understand format that is accessible for a range of different users. Compi...

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Similar ease and functionality of Wazimap but focused completely on youth data. Makes youth data searchable via a map, provides visualised data in different the...

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A city-centric data portal that aims to support the planning, management, monitoring, and reporting needs of cities. The core dataset is the State of Cities Ope...

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A web-based portal established to collect, re-package and disseminate local level data for municipalities. It was developed to provide easy access to municipal ...

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Open By-laws is a platform to make South African by-laws freely-available because everyone has a right to know the law, easy to read so that they're easier to u...

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Policy tracker and data insights into Informal Settlement Upgrading for 8 different metros, includes strategy, current status and insight stories....

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A project that was implemented by civil society organisations, (CSOs) based within communities, who were the drivers of monitoring and advocacy in their own con...

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Citizen-focused website that is question-driven, with clean, easy-to-navigate design. Makes accessing government/city information more user friendly. Driven by ...

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Speak Up Mzansi is an interactive web platform connecting citizens and their elected leaders. The main features of the platform include a discussion space for p...

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Know what to expect to pay when you get a prescription from your doctor Find possible generics for a branded medicine. Ask your doctor if these medicines are v...

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Tool for initiates and their families can check whether the traditional surgeons they have chosen are registered with the Eastern Cape Department of Health, rep...

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Health-e News is South Africa’s award-winning television and print health news service that has been producing news and in-depth analysis for national media sin...

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Tool for community mobilisation. Takes user through process of starting an issue, meeting with fellow community members, vote on issues and make call to actions...

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News agency that reports on news in the public interest, with an emphasis on the human rights of vulnerable communities....

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The biggest free and open collection of South African government gazettes. Gazettes from the Government Printing Works are re-shared under Government Printers A...

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A platform with corporate data freely and publically available, to empower you to hold the right people in the corporate sector accountable when they do things ...

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A platform for citizens to find out about and track what Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are happening in their area. It allows users to use their locat...

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Lets users calculate how much the wages of a domestic worker, and highlights the challenges of making a living wage as a domestic worker in South Africa. There ...

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Drone photojournalism showing spatial inequality....

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Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data....

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A platform for sharing research on innovation and findings on innovating governance. ...

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CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) template for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data....

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Socrata is a mission-driven software company that helps governments and public sector institutions use data more strategically in the design and delivery of the...

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Open source tool that allows for the storage and visualization of geospatial data on the web....

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Lets citizens instantly report to the local governments problems they see, like potholes, graffiti, or broken streetlamps. ...

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A national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage ...

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Platform for online and offline data literacy courses and data skills development. ...

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First attempt to understand what responsible data means in the context of international development programming....

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Annual global benchmark for publication of open government data. Provides the most comprehensive snapshot available of the state of open government data publica...

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Platform is designed for public administrations, citizens, NGOs, media organisations, public service companies, and stakeholders working with fiscal data. The k...

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OpenSpending is a free, open and global platform to search, visualise and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere. ...

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Open Trials is a platfrom to locate, match, and share all publicly accessible data and documents, on all trials conducted, on all medicines and other treatments...

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The Citizen-based Monitoring (CBM) toolkit was developed and piloted by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation in order to strengthen the activ...

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The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) aims to support and advance public participation practices.Its membership includes over 1050 organ...

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The International Budget Partnership (IBP) works with civil society on government budget analysis and advocacy in order to strengthen governance. IBP South Afri...

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ELLA is a network for comparative research, knowledge sharing and learning programmes for organisations and individuals in the global south. The ELLA policy bri...

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The Social Accountabiliy E-Guide is an online database on social accountability tools, methods and approaches. Provided by the World Bank, the website includes ...

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Participedia is an online platform open to researchers and practitioners globally to share experiences with specific participation methods, tools and initiative...

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The Ethics Institute is a South African Based independant institute producing original thought leadership and offering a range of services and products related ...

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The Local Government Anti-Corruption Strategy sets out the strategic objectives to be followed by municipalities in terms of preventing and combatting corruptio...

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The OECD's Directorate for Public Governance website on integrity and anti-corruption in the public sector is aimed at providing resources and tools emphasising...

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