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Open Data & Civic Tech terms
Data portals, transparency, FOIA and the tools built on public data.
Administrative data Records collected by government agencies for operational purposes, later reused for research, statistics, or evaluation. Civic tech Technology built to improve how citizens interact with government and participate in public decisions. Data standards Agreed formats, fields, and definitions that let datasets from different agencies or systems be combined reliably. Open data Government or institutional data published in reusable formats, free for anyone to access, use, and redistribute. Open data portal A public website where a government publishes machine-readable datasets for citizens, researchers, and developers to reuse.