Ukrainian transparency watchdogs might be winning an important battle for more accountable politics as they try to reveal the size and sources of the funding, as well as the scope of spending in the presidential elections.
Continue readingLack of consistency generates lack of transparency in EU elections
Despite its growing powers, the European Parliament has done little in the past to create transparency around the financing of the elections.
Continue readingBetter know a TCamper: International edition
This year, we are pleased to have the opportunity to host twenty opengov advocates from every major continent.
Continue readingTake a stand for transparency and support the Sunlight Foundation (now even easier and with more impact)
At the Sunlight Foundation, we’re passionate about our mission to use technology and advocacy to catalyze a more open, transparent and accountable government. But we’re also a nonprofit and rely upon grants and donations to enable our passion and advance our mission. It’s all possible because of the generosity and help of our donors and friends — THANK YOU!
So, whether you’re a current or future donor, we want to share some great (and a few new) ways to support Sunlight’s mission to advance open data and open government that are easy and, in some cases, can double the impact of your gift.
Sunlight’s Annual Open House is only days away!
We know the past few weeks have been a drag – what with government shutdowns and political paralysis in our nation’s... View Article
Continue readingYou’re Invited to Sunlight’s Annual Open House!
Leaves are turning colors in Washington, fall sweaters are making a grand appearance and things are starting to get a... View Article
Continue readingCoding, Not Just for the Boys
Instead of scheduling brunch plans or enjoying a lazy afternoon this weekend, close to 40 women took over the Sunlight conference room this past Saturday for an all-female software training program conducted by GeekChic. Here at Sunlight, we were happy to host the training and help cultivate more developers in the DC community with the hopes of increasing awareness of open data and turning these future developers on to our APIs and databases.
While many our developer colleagues were participating in the National Day of Civic Hacking, a number of us were here writing our first lines of code. In the seven-hour training intensive, we covered the basics of command line, learned to write and execute code in Python, got our style on with some basic CSS and HTML training as well as created our first web app on Django. (Whew, that was exhausting just recounting what we did.) Six Sunlighters, with a range of tech know how, participated in the training and here’s what we learned (and real life testimonials on why you shouldn’t be afraid to learn to code!). If you are interested in partnering with Sunlight to host technology workshops, please contact events@sunlightfoundation.com.
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