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Open data ledger

The map pages have empty patches because the underlying open data does. This page is an honest, dated log of the specific public datasets ActSmall is asking governments and agencies to publish or improve. Public so you can co-sign by sending your own version, escalate where you have channels, or audit the asks.

How to read this page

Each row below is one specific dataset, one specific agency, the date we (or a peer civic group) asked, the link to the request if it was public, and a status. We treat anything older than 365 days with no response as stalled — not failed, just stalled.

This is not a campaign. It is an editorial record. If you want to co-sign by sending your own version, every row links to the agency’s official public contact channel. If you have a verified update (a dataset went live, an agency replied), please email submissions@actsmall.org with the row, the change, and a public source.

Open asks

Sorted by topic. We add rows as we find them; we never remove a row — we change its status. A row landed once stays in the public record.

Bees & pollinators

  • Pollinator-monitoring data, machine-readable. Ask: that participating national statistical offices publish wild- and managed-bee monitoring records into GBIF on a regular cadence (rather than internal-only spreadsheets), so the bees map’s GBIF Apidae density stops under-representing countries with active national monitoring programmes. Agencies: national statistical offices and environment ministries; see the official contact list. Status: open. A meaningful share of the empty patches on the bees map exist because national programmes hold records they could share but have not.
  • FAOSTAT QCL release cadence. Ask: that FAOSTAT’s Crops and Livestock Products release schedule for managed beehives (element 5111, item 1181) and natural honey production (element 5510, item 1182) be at least annual with a documented lag ≤ 12 months, so the bees map’s honey/hives indicators stop falling behind by 2–4 years. Agency: FAOSTAT at the FAO. Status: open.

Water

  • JMP drinking-water and sanitation data at sub-national resolution. Ask: that the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme’s national rollups be supplemented with sub-national rural/urban tables wherever member states already collect them, so the water map can render gaps inside countries that the national average colours as "fine." Agency: JMP. Status: open.
  • USGS NWIS API ingestion outside the US. Ask: a documented, stable open API equivalent to USGS NWIS for at least one other high-water-stress jurisdiction. (No country presently publishes real-time instantaneous water-quality values at the cadence and license terms USGS does.) Agency: aspirational; depends on national hydrological services voluntarily adopting USGS-style public APIs. Status: aspirational. Documenting it here so the gap is visible.

Air

  • OpenAQ coverage in low-monitor regions. Ask: that national air-monitoring networks (or universities) operating PM2.5 sensors in regions currently dark on the air map publish their data through OpenAQ (open license, real-time API). Sensor.Community + low-cost citizen networks are the second tier and feed OpenAQ already. Agencies: national environmental agencies and university air-quality groups; build or join a citizen-monitor if no network exists locally. Status: open.

Fire

  • GDACS Phase-4/5 wildfire feed in machine-readable form. Ask: that GDACS’s wildfire alert level (Green/Orange/Red) be exposed alongside the NASA FIRMS thermal-anomaly feed in a single canonical machine-readable endpoint, so the fire map can show alert severity rather than only detection density. Agencies: GDACS and NASA FIRMS. Status: open. The data exists; the canonical-feed combination does not.

Food

  • WFP HungerMap historical archive in addition to live. Ask: that the WFP HungerMap publish a documented historical archive (daily or weekly snapshots of insufficient-food-consumption %, IPC phase, and resilience indicators) under the same open license as the live feed, so the food map can render trend lines, not just today’s reading. Agency: WFP HungerMap LIVE. Status: open. Live data is exemplary; history is patchy.

Forest & ocean

  • Marine-protected-area share by EEZ at country resolution. Ask: that the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) expose a stable per-EEZ percentage rollup so the ocean map’s MPA indicator can render directly from WDPA rather than from country-level approximations that miss island states with large EEZs. Agency: UNEP-WCMC / WDPA. Status: open.
  • Year-over-year intact-forest-landscape change at national resolution. Ask: that IFL Mapping + Global Forest Watch publish a single canonical national IFL-change indicator (with the methodology change between the 2000 baseline and the latest revision documented) so the forest map can render trend, not just static cover. Agencies: IFL Mapping consortium + WRI. Status: open.

What “status” means here

  • Open — the ask is documented and unanswered.
  • Stalled — we (or peer civic groups) have asked publicly and received no response after 365 days.
  • Acknowledged — an agency has acknowledged the request publicly but has not committed to action.
  • In progress — an agency has committed to publishing or improving the dataset on a documented timeline.
  • Delivered — the dataset is live and the map page has integrated it. We keep the row but update the status; we never delete the public record of a request.
  • Aspirational — nobody is publishing this kind of data yet. The row exists so the gap is visible.

How to add a row

This page is plain HTML in a maintainer source tree (not a public repository). To propose a row, email submissions@actsmall.org with: the topic, the specific dataset, the agency, the request link (if public), the date asked, and the current status. We’ll add it with a same-day review when the row is sourced.

This page exists to make our asks legible. It is not advocacy infrastructure. It is editorial transparency.