Here’s a possible object lesson for the new Obama Administration. Canada’s Democracy Watch says their federal government gets a D... View Article
Continue readingOpenCongress’ Battle Royale
OpenCongress has just launched Battle Royale, their new feature that collects all the data about Congress generated by users of... View Article
Continue readingEncouraging More Early Actions
Encouraged by several openness and transparency steps taken by the Obama – Biden transition team, the Center for Democracy &... View Article
Continue readingSome Ideas for Access to Information
Public.Resource.org, founded by Carl Malamud, is a nonprofit working to make government information more accessible. (Sunlight has provided the group... View Article
Continue readingEPA Goes Mobile
Now here’s something in the department of “this has potential” …..The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a Web... View Article
Continue readingMaking Cities Think Like the Web
Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, gave a very interesting talk (audio and slide show available) at last... View Article
Continue readingProPublica and OMB Watch Shining Light on “Midnight Regs”
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about the “midnight regulations” the Bush Administration is inserting into federal rules such as... View Article
Continue readingQuite the Understatement
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) came out with its first report on the $700 billion financial bailout. Its title, “Additional... View Article
Continue readingParty Time Wins BOB Award
Our own Party Time site is the proud winner of the “best English weblog” BOB award from Deutsche Welle, Germany’s... View Article
Continue readingOpen-Government.us
As I noted yesterday, happily, the Transition team announced over the weekend they have now adopted the most open Creative... View Article
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