- CHallenge on Innovation and Problem solving through Technology Advancement (CHIPTA) Hackathon - National public sector innovation and problem-solving hackathon by MAMPU.
- DOSM Datathon 2024 - National statistics datathon exploring DOSM's open data, co-organised with Statistics Club (inStats) and College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Themed "Finding Digital and Green Skills" by Department of Statistics Malaysia (GH).
- DOSM Datathon 2025 - National statistics datathon exploring DOSM's open data, co-organised with Statistics Club (inStats) and College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Themed "Leveraging ML and AI to develop innovative solutions for Decent Standard of Living in Malaysia" by Department of Statistics Malaysia (GH).
- 2022 UN Big Data Hackathon for DOSM - Global hackathon on food security and trade using big data and satellite imagery, organised by UNCEBD and Statistics Indonesia. DOSM's team "GeMy Malaysia" placed as Key Contributor in the Big Data Expert track by DOSM-GitHub (GH).
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Various Voters, Census(DUN & Parliament), Results, Candidates Data - Compiled CSV datasets on voters, census breaks by constituency (DUN & Parliament), election results, and candidate profiles by Thevesh (GH).
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Malaysian Election Corpus (MECo) - Federal & State Election Results since 1955 - Open-access panel database of all ~10,000 electoral contests since 1955 with candidate demographics, coalitions, and constituency-level results in CSV and Parquet formats by Thevesh (GH).
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DataPortal.asia - Malaysia - Aggregated catalogue of ~14,000 Malaysian datasets from data.gov.my and other Asian sources by AODP.
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Politikus - Structured open data on political integrity, PEPs, government procurement, and elections following Popolo and BODS standards by Sinar Project (GH).
- Malaysia Open Science Platform Research Data - covering various Research Fields in the Sciences(Medical/Health Sciences, Climate, Energy, Engineering, Material Sciences, IT, Agriculture, Food Sciences & etc) as well as Arts (Lang, Education, Arts, Social Science, Business, Finance & Economics) by Akademi SAINS Malaysia.
- MECo: Electoral Maps and Cartograms since 1954 - Digital electoral boundaries for all 19 delimitation exercises since 1954, election maps, and cartograms (GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, KML) by Thevesh (GH).
- Electoral Boundaries - GeoJSON parliamentary, DUN and district boundaries from Department of Statistics Malaysia (GH).
- Census data such as demographics by district, DUN and Parliamentary areas from Department of Statistics Malaysia (GH).
- Basic economic data such as income, poverty rates and GINI index, by state, Parliament and DUN from Department of Statistics Malaysia (GH).
- Official data on the COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia by Ministry of Health Malaysia (GH).
- Official data on Malaysia's National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) by Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (GH).
- KKM Now Open Data - links to other opendata repo such as Covid 19, blood donation, organ donation, peka B40, Healthcare resources by Ministry of Health Malaysia (GH).
- ODIN Assessment Dataset - Downloadable ODIN scores for Malaysia and all assessed countries (2015–2024) in CSV, JSON, and XLSX. Coverage and openness scores broken down by social, economic, and environmental categories, useful for tracking DOSM's open data progress over time by Open Data Watch.
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Malaysian Election Dataviz - Interactive embeddable election result maps and charts for GE15 and state elections by Thibi.co (GH).
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Malaysian Civil Society Open Data - CKAN portal with datasets on political integrity, government procurement, and governance by Sinar Project (GH).
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DataPortal.asia - Malaysia - Regional CKAN data portal aggregating open datasets across 12 Asian economies by AODP.
- Malaysia Open Science Platform (Portal) - Open Science Data aggregator with data from UPM, MOSTI RADARS, UTM, UKM, USM & ASM Science Journal by Akademi SAINS Malaysia.
- Malaysia Open Data Portal - Malaysia's official open data portal with data catalogue, dashboards, and OpenAPI by MAMPU.
- Sarawak Open Data Portal - Sarawak state government open data portal with datasets on tourism, population, and public services by Sarawak Government.
- OpenDOSM - Alternative data portal with Data Catalogue on Economy & Healthcare as well as Dashboards(Economy, Financial Sector, Social, GDP & Demography) by OpenDOSM team (GH) from within Department of Statistics Malaysia (GH).
- KKMNOW Portal with Data & Dashboards on Infectious Disease (Covid), Digitalisation, Healthcare Resources & Programs by Ministry of Health Malaysia (GH).
- Open Data Inventory (ODIN) - Assesses national statistical office websites on coverage and openness criteria, with Malaysia profiles from 2015 to 2024. Benchmark data.gov.my and DOSM against global open data standards by Open Data Watch.
- Open Government Data: Principles, Benefits and Evaluations by Khazanah Research Insititute by Khazanah Research Institute.
- Open Government Data in Malaysia: Landscape, Challenges and Aspirations by Khazanah Research Institute.
- Open Government Data for Academic Research by Khazanah Research Institute.
- Key Penang Statistics - set of publicly accessible Tableau-based dashboards based on DoSM public data and other government sources. A great way to get started on exploring data that is available publicly from government agencies by Philip Khor (GH) for Penang Institute.
- Data Journalism Assessment Malaysia by Sinar Project (GH) - set of case studies, resources and tips for writing data journalism stories in Malaysia by leading journalists and newsrooms.
- Malaysian Election Dataviz - Set of ready to use visualization tools from Thibi.co for GE15 Elections by Thibi.co (GH).
- CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) Portal Software (GH) - an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. Used by most organisation & government portals for sharing data. Built by the CKAN open source community (see #3. Who develops CKAN).
- Open Data Handbook by Open Knowledge Foundation Network (GH).
- Open Data Resources by Open Knowledge Foundation Network (GH).
- Open Data pathway - a self-assessment tool that will help assess how well the data organisation publishes and consumes open data, and identify actions for improvement by Open Data Institute (GH).
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- Awesome Project (GH) - For this awesome list/listicle project.
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