Open Data & Public Datasets

Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose. Open data is licensed under an open license.

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UNESCO is a founding member of the Open for Good Alliance, which is an initiative to leverage synergies with international, regional and national organizations that are working to stimulate the use of localized data in artificial intelligence systems to address local problems.

Open Data Handbook provides guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

  1. UN Data
  2. data.europa.eu - European Data Portal
  3. data.gov - U.S. Government's Open Data
  4. Google Cloud Public Datasets
  5. Open Data on AWS
  6. Azure Open Datasets 
  7. Kaggle - licensing terms may vary by dataset
  8. FiveThirtyEight
  9. Development Data Lab
  10. NASA - datasets related to earth science and space
  11. UCI Machine Learning Repository
  12. World Bank Open Data 
  13. data.world Open Data
  14. WHO Global Health Observatory
  15. Tableau Public Sample Data

India specific Data Sources:

  1. data.gov.in - Open Government Data Platform India
  2. Data for India
  3. Hindustan Times Labs
  4. Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University
  5. ISB - India Data Portal
  6. Dataful
  7. Indian micro-data sets by Shiv Hastawala
  8. Association of Mutual Funds in India Research Information

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