Datamob: human rights

UN Data API Project

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:45:33 -0400

Unofficial API version of the data made available by the United Nations on the UNdata site. REST API hosted on Google's Java AppEngine, with results returned in XML and JSON. Outputs compatible with the Linked Data Initiative.

url: http://www.undata-api.org/

Social Actions API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:55:40 -0400

Social Actions is an open source database of actions people can take on any issue, from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans. The Social Actions RESTful API returns data in JSON format and contains up-to-date information about actions from 50+ sources, including Care2, DonorsChoose.org, Idealist and Kiva.

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:09:40 -0400

Data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), downloadable in Microsoft Excel, comma-delimited ASCII and semicolon-delimited ASCII formats.

url: http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/tableviewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143

UNdata

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:29:31 -0400

Search United Nations data and download in XML, comma-separated values, semicolon-separated values and pipe-separated values formats.

url: http://data.un.org/

Refugee Flow Patterns in Kosovo, March-May 1999

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:44:06 -0400

A collection of datasets on the flow of refugees from Kosovo during the 1999 war between NATO and Yugoslavia.

url: http://shr.aaas.org/kosovo/index.html

Human Rights Data Analysis Group: Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:42:22 -0400

Data on human rights violations in Sierra Leone.

url: http://hrdag.org/resources/SL-TRC_data.html

Human Rights Data Analysis Group: Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:40:48 -0400

Data on human rights violations in Timor-Leste.

url: http://www.hrdag.org/resources/timor-leste_data.shtml

Social Actions Tuner

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:39:48 -0400

A tool for finding the volunteer and donation opportunities you're interested in more quickly. By Ehren Foss, David Petersen and Jake Hofman.

Source code available via SVN.

url: http://satuner.preludeinteractive.com/

Social Actions for Twitter Trends

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:19:01 -0400

A web service which matches the latest trending topics on Twitter with related actions for good causes on Social Actions.

url: http://trends.emerich.de/