Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including personal financial disclosures, mapping crashes in India, and complaining about Freedom of Information in Illinois.
Continue readingTransparency Case Study: Lobbying disclosure in Canada
While there are many admirable features of Canadian lobbying regulation, current disclosure thresholds and requirements actually create a subtly perverse incentive structure that drives activity into the shadows.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 5/5/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including opening the Chamber's wallet, Poderpedia expanding, and secret money in Montana.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: an Obamacare math and messaging muck up, a plea for a new font and more
Another roundup of notable deletions from Sunlight's Politwoops project to archive the deleted tweets of U.S. politicians.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Bringing open and interactive budget data to New Orleans
The Committee for a Better New Orleans, with the support from Sunlight Foundation’s OpenGov Grant, plans to launch an interactive website to provide a basic overview of the city's budget.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 5/2/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis the Office of Technology Assessment, turning PDFs into data in Argentina, and State Supreme Court nepotism.
Continue readingWhy the DATA Act will be good for local transparency, too
Sunlight has long been a supporter of the DATA Act, which will help open federal spending data. The DATA Act could help improve local financial transparency, too.
Continue readingWhere does Pfizer spend its money on Capitol Hill?
As Pfizer, a heavy hitter in U.S. politics, looks at a renewed bid to acquire U.K.-based AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical giant sees the billions of dollars it could save in taxes if the deal goes through.
Continue readingAsk Us Anything on Reddit about our call for transparent NIST standards
Sunlight is joining our friends at Access, Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Silent Circle for today's AMA.
Continue readingHow TV stations are letting political advertisers play hide and seek
Sunlight and Campaign Legal Center, represented by Georgetown University's Institute for Public Representation, are filing complaints against 11 TV stations for letting political advertisers hide their identites.
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