I was in Portland last week, soaking up back-to-back conferences in JSConf and NodeConf. JavaScript (or just JS) is experiencing a bit of a renaissance. Not only are the modern browser wars a boon to client-side JS performance and functionality, but JS is being used on the server side via Node.js. The speakers and attendees are on the cutting edge of software development. It was an inspiring, mind-expanding week.
Reflecting on these two conferences, another important observation comes to mind about my fellow attendees: Many of them are active in the open government and open data community. Our community!
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BATTLE OVER CU EO UNDERWAY —LAT: “A lobbying battle is raging largely behind the scenes over a seemingly obscure executive... View Article
Continue readingMonitor Group Admits Violating FARA Law
The Monitor Group, a business consulting firm run by Harvard professors, has admitted that they broke the Foreign Agents Registration... View Article
Continue readingSenate wants to “check in” on mobile developments
Few electronic devices have become as personal and ubiquitous as the mobile phone. Or as contentious. A few weeks ago, researchers discovered previously unknown location tracking files on the iPhone. Before that, the country's second-largest wireless carrier (AT&T) agreed to buy the fourth (T-Mobile). Next week the Senate will hold two hearings to look at these issues.
On Tuesday, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is calling Apple and Google to Washington to explain their privacy policies in a Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy."
The witness list for the hearing ...
Open States Reaches Halfway Mark
Today marks an important milestone for the Open State Project: the addition of New York to our list of experimental states brings our total number of supported states to 25 (plus Washington DC). This marks the halfway point on our journey to bring clean, consistent, machine readable legislative information to all 50 states.
This means that residents of 25 states (accounting for approximately two-thirds of US citizens) can access their state's legislative data in a variety of machine readable formats (JSON, XML, CSV) and will soon be benefiting from sites like like OpenGovernment.org and MyGov365 that use our bulk downloads and free API to keep citizens informed about their state legislature.
Continue readingTools for Transparency: A Look at #TCamp11
It’s almost been a week since the first day of TransparencyCamp and I want to take a look at some... View Article
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GOLDMAN LOBBYING ON VOLCKER RULE —Reuters: “Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) has just a few more months to put its... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly round-up: Maine activists join transparency movement
Earlier we wrote about how Maine was moving towards listening to calls for transparency. Now, we are happy that other... View Article
Continue readingRescheduled “Future of CRS” discussion this Monday
The rescheduled “Future of CRS” panel discussion will take place this Monday, May 9, from 2-3:30 pm. CRS director Dan... View Article
Continue readingEight lawmakers signed a letter for Renco
Eight members of Congress signed on to a January letter asking the heads of the Treasury and State Departments to take measures to intervene on behalf of a U.S.-owned company in the middle of a controversial dispute with Peru. Until now, Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., was the only known signatory of the letter sent to Secretaries Tim Geithner and Hlllary Clinton.
The missive, along with another from Rep. Spencer Bachus, came after the Renco Group, owned by billionaire mining magnate Ira Rennert, began a lobbying campaign spending more than $300,000 since November 2010 to influence Washington ...
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