Use cases

Bilancio Aperto (Open Budget) makes state budget information accessible to the public, thereby increasing transparency of government spending and improving accountability. The application is designed for civil servants, parliamentarians, and citizens and provides access to revenues, expenses, balances, statement of accounts, the current budget, and budget laws.

IrCELine is an air quality checker for Belgium. The website provides actual figures as well as forecasts of the levels of nitrogen-dioxide, and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10). In addition, a map overview classifies the current levels as very good, good, poor, or bad.

OpenTrees.org combines urban tree datasets from over 150 cities across the globe and is the largest database of municipal street and park trees. The data is provided by local governments and helps them guide choices of what to plant next, manage risk of branches falling, and manage pruning, watering and inspection schedules.

The Barcelona Waste Map is an interactive map showing the location of oil recycling bins in the city. This helps citizens to locate them, dispose of their litter at the allocated containers, and keep the city clean. The website in created with OpenStreetMap and Carto. This is one example of a private individual who has created several maps for cities in Spain, most of which visualise population data.

datastore.brussels is the regional platform for publishing open data and sharing data and services in the Brussels region. This platform is designed for data producers and users and facilitates and promotes the re-use of data and services. Users of datastore.brussels are free to browse the portal, search, and consult the various data and web services.

OpenRaadsinformatie is an online application that provides users with access to public meeting, items on the agenda, motions and documents on various Dutch municipalities and administrations of provinces. Created by the coalition of Dutch municipalities and the Open State Foundation, OpenRaadsinformatie acts as a central point of access to government data and documents, and is utilised by several other applications.

Meng Loft is the official air quality application of the Environment Agency in Luxembourg for mobile devices. The application makes it possible to check actual and historical trends, and monitor the main pollutants such as ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and particulate matter (PM10).

The Transparency Portal aggregates health data from various entities across Portugal and makes these datasets available to the public. It aims to create transparency and increase efficiency in the national health service (NHS) and enable access to high-quality health data for institutions, citizens, and health professionals.

The International Data & Economic Analysis (IDEA) is an online database providing access to country-level data across the globe. Created by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and initially set up to support the staff and associates of USAID find data from external sources, the IDEA database now provides access to over 10 000 data series and is categorised along the themes: people government, official development assistance, economy, education, and health.

Statsregnskapet is a website that visualises government spending and budgets on the basis of publicly available government statistics. In doing so, it aims to create transparency in government spending.