MapStory.org, a Sunlight Foundation OpenGov grantee, has successfully collected, processed and mapped nearly every municipal annexation to occur in the state of New York since 1625 and made the data available on StoryLayers in their site.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 9/5/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including a new Chief Technology Officer, open data in Indonesia, and a conviction in Virginia.
Continue readingEmergency room reports reveal racial disparity in injuries caused by police
Hospital emergency department records collected by the CDC reveal not only a racial disparity in the number of nonfatal injuries caused by law enforcement but also an upward trend in their frequency over the last decade.
Continue readingTransparency bills could offer easy wins, but will Congress bite?
Congress returns from summer vacation with expectations that they will accomplish almost nothing before Election Day. But if members want to point to some accomplishments before voters go to the polls, they should look at bills aimed at strengthening transparency.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Tools and NGO collaboration push Georgia to redefine “FOI as usual”
Four citizen groups in Georgia are promoting a new level of transparency by uniting their freedom of information efforts in a single website called OpenData.ge.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 9/4/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including a lobbying sprint, Russian banks with major influence muscle, and planning a trip back to prison for a former Governor.
Continue readingA fond farewell
A parting note from Sunlight Labs Director Tom Lee.
Continue readingSnap Shot Georgia: From closed-door corruption to open data
Take an inside look at this former Soviet state's anti-corruption comeback and how it has affected political responsiveness and integrity in election financing.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 9/3/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events, and analysis, including big money, corporate disclosure in South Africa, and cameras in Ferguson -- a little too late.
Continue readingWhat can we learn from 800,000 public comments on the FCC’s net neutrality plan?
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposed rules regarding net neutrality resulted in the commission’s largest-ever public comment collection. Use this visualization to browse the hundreds of thousands of documents in a simple and manageable way.
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