Sunlight Foundation Press Release Archive
Press Releases for September 2009
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The Sunlight Foundation Names Apps for America2 Winners
Washington, DC –The Sunlight Foundation awarded Datamasher.org with the grand prize of $10,000 for Sunlight’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. Datamasher.org is a Web application designed by Forum One Communications that lets anyone—no programming background required—choose different government data sets and mash them up to create visualizations and compare results on a state by state basis. Clay Johnson, director of Sunlight Labs, announced the winners and distributed over $25,000 in awards late yesterday at the Gov 2.0 Expo hosted by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb.
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The Sunlight Foundation Commends White House for Releasing Visitor Logs
Washington, DC - Today, the White House took a huge step toward a more transparent government by announcing a new policy to voluntarily disclose White House visitor access records. Sunlight has called on the Obama administration and advocated for the disclosure of these visitor logs, and has blogged about the need to release this information here and here. Each month, records of visitors from the previous 90-120 days will be made available online. While Sunlight commends the White House for this historic policy, ultimately, Sunlight believes all government information should be disclosed online in real time.
