It’s time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my Administration or... View Article
Continue readingData Quality Deserves to be Tackled on Its Own
Last week Clay wrote about how we'll be evaluating /open pages released under the OGD. The post ended with a series of considerations that we think are important: completeness, primacy, timeliness, accessibility, machine readability, availability without registration, being non-proprietary, freedom from licensing restrictions, permanence and obtainability.
One thing is conspicuously missing from the list, though: quality.
Continue readingMust Read: NYT Series on Radiation Poisoning
A fascinating series on new radiation treatments for cancer patients by New York Times reporter Walt Bogdanich caught my eye for two reasons.
First, because he bases his reporting--showing that there have been hundreds of people injured, some fatally, by these new technologies, even as so many are also saved--in part by wresting accident report and other records from federal, state, and city government sources. In other words, via government data.
And second, because the week before his first story appeared, my mother underwent such treatment for a benign brain tumor, a meningioma, that was growing back nearly 15 years ...
White House and Influence Reform Anew
We just received a fact sheet from the White House, which outlines some of the policy goals suggested in President... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Reforms on List of President’s Priorities
Copies of the SOTU speech are now circulating and there are several things in it that Sunlight is extremely happy... View Article
Continue readingOGD: USAID’s missing data
One of USAID's high value data sets on U.S. economic and military assistance aka the Greenbook cannot be accessed on data.gov/ogd. Unfortunately, the source of the broken link is coming from the USAID website.
Continue readingLegislation Intended to Respond to Citizens United
We have been busy thinking through our response to the Citizens United decision, an issue on the minds of people... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Camp East: March 27-28, 2010
After two extremely successful TransparencyCamps in 2009, and an unprecedented year of transparency victories, we're coming together again in Washington to build on the momentum the open government movement has created.
Continue readingOGD: Defense releases what it already releases
To comply with the Open Government Directive, the Defense Department designated three high-value datasets last week, among them a listing of those requesting more transparency from the Pentagon. DoD released details on the 4,000 Freedom of Information requests it has received as well as datasets with information on service members gender and race, U.S. state, and marriage statistics.
Interestingly, the three datasets that Defense said were its high value releases, fulfilling a requirement of the first stage of the directive, were not marked as agency-reported high-value dataset (with an asterisk) on Data.gov. This seems like a small ...
OGD: Department of the Interior
Two of the other data sets released Friday, probably the ones most useful to the public, the volunteer opportunities and the recreation data sets are already available online here and here in a better and usable format compared to the XML downloads on data.gov.
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