This is a really clever infographic by Adam Bonica showing the ideological placement of occupations through an examination of their... View Article
Continue readingAnnouncing Our Google Summer of Code 2010 Participation
Yesterday Google announced the accepted organizations for the 2010 Google Summer of Code and Sunlight is honored to be one of the organizations that will be participating this year. This is our second year participating and we're looking forward to this year's batch of students.
If you are interested in applying check out our project ideas page and read on for details.
Continue readingDescription of Citizenship Database Available – If You’re Willing to Pay Nearly $112,000
After taking nearly four years to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request, the U.S. immigration agency is demanding $111,930 for records that describe what is in a government database of claims for U.S. citizenship – not the actual database itself.
Balking at the agency’s request, the non-profit group that filed the FOIA says the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is acting contrary to President Barack Obama’s openness directive, creating “arbitrary cost barriers” to what should be public information, and may be illegal.
The Transactional Records and Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based research ...
Idea to Action: Launching the Public=Online Campaign
Ultimately, Public=Online is focused on getting government to pass the transparency laws we need - laws that put government information online in real-time where we can use it - and we're going to do that by building a demand for transparency that is so large it cannot be ignored by politicians.
Continue readingSupreme Court unveils new website: how does it look?
New website Last year, we made suggestions about how the U.S. Supreme Court should redesign its website. Today, the Court... View Article
Continue readingOur next contest: Design for America
Our next contest, and first of two contests of 2010 is "Design for America". As we talked about in January, opening government involves more than just developers: we need the art and design community to take data from our government and tell stories about it.
Part contest, part festival, the Design for America contest's intent is to inspire the design community to tell great stories about how our government works, what our government does, and what it could do. It's a contest as much about possibility as transparency, and with categories ranging from infographics to web design, there's plenty for all to compete in. Each category has a $5,000 prize associated with it now, and as we gain sponsors for each category, we'll be increasing the prizes associated as sponsorship allows.
Read more about it after the jump
Continue readingLunchtime Links
1) The Washington Post has an excellent infographic on House health care votes, campaign contributions and percent uninsured in district.... View Article
Continue readingWhere’s CONAN? 6 months later, still no sign of legal treatise
On the 220th birthday of the Constitution, Sunlight made a simple request: the fantastic legal treatise known as the Constitution... View Article
Continue readingVideo: Press Conference Announcing the Public Online Information Act
Representative Steve Israel, Sunlight Executive Director Ellen Miller, and Personal Democracy Forum co-founder Andrew Rasiej announce the introduction of the... View Article
Continue readingWho Am I? What Am I Doing Here? (Everything I Learned Came From Romero Movies)
In honor of Sunlight Week I’ve posted an explanation on what I do and why I do it below. A... View Article
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