Happy Friday and welcome to another review of the week's notable deleted tweets archived by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingOpen Data Day is the new Earth Day
Open Data Day has, much like Earth Day, come to demonstrate collective support of an emerging global consensus and vision for the future — one of transparency and open government.
Continue readingOpen data inventories, ready for human consumption
Federal agencies have released listings of their complete public data sets in machine-readable files. Now, thanks to the work of Sunlight, you can also explore — and download — most of these listings in human-friendly format.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Join Open Data Day 2014 in Kampala, Uganda
The Africa Center for Media Excellence, Fruits of Thought and Mountbatten Ltd. are hosting the first Open Data Day in Uganda in a bid to engage stakeholders to open up the country's data.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 2/21/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including Congress.gov upgrades, India, and movement in Pittsburgh.
Continue readingSome retiring lawmakers could walk away with a big green parting gift
More than 20 departing members of Congress could be walking away from their political careers with a special parting gift — a combined total of $828,474 in campaign donations that they're allowed to keep for personal use.
Continue readingGauging the needs and challenges of the global open data community
Recently, the Global Open Data Initiative sought input from the community to learn more about the needs and challenges associated with open data. What follows is a summary of our most interesting findings about the global state of open data.
Continue readingHouse of Cards Against Humanity: a donation from generous people
On Thursday we quietly fell out of our chairs as we saw this post from Cards Against Humanity announcing a large donation to the Sunlight Foundation.
Continue readingSample the new, à la carte, Congressional Record parser
Introducing congressional-record! This is a project that can parse the flat text of the Congressional Record from the Government Printing Office's HTML files and produce bulk XML data for the entirety of the digital record — no database required.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 2/20/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including whistleblower protections in Australia, revolving door changes in Missouri, and SEC data.
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