An independent civic lab concept for Galicia

Cidade Labs is a small, independent lab that builds open maps and tools on public data. It takes the information cities already produce (bus positions, census figures, school boundaries, planning records) and turns it into things anyone in Galicia can use, in the browser, for free.

The model is borrowed and inspired from civic-technology offices within the City of New York and BetaNYC. We build well-made, open-source tools on public data, document how they work, and give them away. Every project here names its data sources and explains its method.

How it works

The lab does not generate data. Public institutions (the Compañía de Tranvías, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, the Concello da Coruña, the Xunta de Galicia) do that as part of running a city and a region. The idea is to make that work legible. Each tool is open-source and lives in its own repository, so anyone can read it, reuse it, or improve it.

Languages

The lab works in Galician, Spanish, and English, so its tools are useful both to residents of Galicia and to a wider audience following the region's civic and urban life.

Who

Cidade Labs is an independent concept, not a company and not for profit.