ClearHealthCosts is an initiative that aims to bring transparency to the health care marketplace by telling people what medical procedures and facilitates costs at different hospitals in the United States. The information is on the platforms home page and is also available on the newsrooms of their partners in different states, such as NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and the Daily News.

C4P.io is a platform that generates intelligence about the EU market for the benefit of the public sector, companies, and citizens. The platform uses human and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate results and reveal insights from text and data on the EU market.

PlantVillage Nuru is a publicly supported and developed application that helps farmers diagnose crops disease in the field without an internet connection. The application was developed at Penn State University in partnership with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. Plantvillage Nuru is the largest open access library of crop health knowledge in the world.

Bikecitizens is an Austrian company that provide navigations system for cyclists in cities. The app uses data from Open Street Maps and enables its users to track their tours, shows live density information about the number of people already biking in a city and the app also lets the user choose whether they want a leisurely, fast or convenient route.

Dublinked is the open data portal for the city of Dublin. At the website, users can download information on, among others, transport, energy and the environment, public health and recreation. However, Dublinked only provides the datasets and therefore the Dublin City Council also founded the DublinDashboard. The Dashboard uses the data from Dublinked, but also from other open data sources (Eurostat, Central Statistics Office), to make visualisations that are easily understandable for its citizens.

Openaid.se was started by the Swedish government to provide transparency to its citizens about the social aid it provides to other countries and to refugees. According to the website their goal is to fight poverty as effectively as possible and the only way to do this properly is by being transparent and open. The website combines multiple data sources and enables its users to see precisely which money went where.

The goal of DBpedia is to make the information on Wikipedia machine readable. At this moment, a lot of open data, such as on Wikipedia, is not directly useable for computers. DBpedia enables users to query specific questions in the Wikipedia database. For instance, you can search DBpedia for all places with a Wikipedia page that are close to sea with a lot of sun.

Mapcast helps its user to navigate and discover cities and provides an audio guide that is linked to the users actual location. For instance, if the user is standing in front of the colosseum, you can listen to information from an expert about the monument. Additionally, Mapcast lets users upload their own audio fragments that are also linked to their location, further extending the number of audio fragments in Mapcast.

FiveThirtyEight (re-) uses data to support their journalistic articles in the fields of politics, sports, science & health, economics and culture. Using open data they provide new insights to their readers. Often, they also share their data and their methodology.