A parting note from Sunlight Labs Director Tom Lee.
Continue readingWe finally gave Congress email addresses
OpenCongress has a new feature: email addresses for your representatives. This simple capability has been years in the making thanks to the hoops that our legislators make citizens jump through.
Continue readingNonprofit data just went offline, and it’s the government’s fault
Carl Malamud has just taken his archive of nonprofit data offline because of the government's failure to respond to serious concerns.
Continue readingHere’s how we’re going to find our next teammate
Sunlight needs a talented new engineer! And we're trying an experiment to make sure we find the best one we can.
Continue readingHouse.gov Goes Offline
House.gov had some DNS woes today, but it looks like things are better now.
Continue readingA little math could make identifiers a whole lot better
Government is understandably wary of publishing personal identifiers, though they're often vital to transparency. Fortunately, there are technological approaches to this problem --government should embrace them.
Continue readingGovernment should use more autocomplete fields
By taking just a few simple steps, individual government officials and vendors could make their data better.
Continue readingFive opengov takeaways from the Coalition Against Corruption Conference
Last month, a few Sunlighters headed to Bangalore for the Coalition Against Corruption Conference. It's impossible to fully summarize all we learned much about the challenges facing reformers around the globe, but five themes stuck out.
Continue readingHow the Indian rail website accidentally stops bribery
Sunlight's in India for the Coalition Against Corruption Summit, but one of the most interesting ideas about corruption came to us as we tried to book train tickets.
Continue readingWhat’s Under the Hood of Google’s New Civic Information Offering
Exciting news for anyone working on open government technology: Google's Civic Information API now includes representative data! The API was already a great source of electoral information. Now it can help connect people to the politicians who represent them.
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