The Sunlight Foundation is taking on more responsibility for administering the next US City Open Data Census and would love... View Article
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Transit data – a major success story for common data standards
When data becomes open and commonly formatted, trends such as job access, mobility, equity, health, and others, are illuminated to show the effects of transportation in a community.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Governing together for a better Wichita
Wichita, Kan., was recently named a What Works City. See how the "Air Capital of the World" values collaboration and conversation with its citizens through technology.
Continue readingImproving the US City Open Data Census
This year, Sunlight will be taking on more responsibility for administering the US City Open Data Census, which evaluates participating cities based on the publication of local government datasets.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Freedom of Information Act reform heads to the White House
FOIA REFORM GOES TO POTUS: Monday’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to send the FOIA Improvement Act of... View Article
Continue readingPublishing voter registration data must balance privacy with transparency
The District of Columbia needs to balance privacy with transparency when releasing information on its voters.
Continue readingIRS opens up Form 990 data, ushering nonprofit sector into the age of transparency
Sunlight has long held that nonprofit e-file data should be open. Thanks to the IRS and many opengov advocates, now it is.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Opening nonprofit tax-return data online will be transformative
On June 15, the IRS began publishing nonprofit tax returns, known as Form 990s, online as open government data. The effect of this result will be transformative.
Continue readingHouse passes bill reducing disclosure of dark money donors
Yesterday, the House passed a GOP bill that eliminates the mandate for nonprofit groups to disclose their donors to the IRS.
Continue readingCelebrating Freedom of Information Act reform in Congress, and the road ahead
Monday’s vote to send the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 to the president's desk is the culmination of a decade of work from a coalition of advocates to reform the Freedom of Information Act.
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