The White House announced last Thursday a three part process for developing the Open Government Directive, which was first announced... View Article
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States for a Transparent and Accountable Recovery (STAR) Coalition is a new network of groups that recently formed to work... View Article
Continue readingBrandeis And The History Of Transparency
“I’m proud to present the third and final part in the series of research projects from the Sunlight Foundation spring... View Article
Continue readingBills of the 110th Congressional Session
Everyone has their own thoughts and perceptions on what generally happens to bills as they pass through the legislative process. With the thousands of bills that are introduced every year, it is hard to get an overall sense of what is happening. During the last couple of months, our intern Rebecca Shapiro collected and processed data (from the Thomas Web site run by the Library of Congress) on each bill in the 110th session of Congress in order to understand what happened to all of them.
Continue readingKeeping an Eye on Data.gov
One thing that's curiously missing from Data.gov is an RSS feed for new data feeds. Sort of shockingly, and glaringly left out. We were disappointed, and didn't want to wait. Scraping here is such an easy thing to do that we decided to just build our own. Sunlight Labs' James Turk did it, and it's handy. Here's the feed and here's the source that makes the feed. This should be useful to anyone who wants to see what new stuff is coming out of Data.gov.
Continue readingWeekly Media Roundup – May 22, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article
Continue readingOpen Government Initiative Open for Comment
Yesterday, the Office of Science and Technology at the White House filed a request for public comment on the administration’s... View Article
Continue readingAfter FEC Eviscerates Bundling Disclosure Law, Only One Bundler Discloses
According to The Hill, only one political action committee (PAC) reported bundling campaign contributions for a political candidate during the... View Article
Continue readingEverything We Know About Data.gov
Everything you wanted to know about Data.gov
Now that Data.gov's out, I thought I'd take a look under the hood and see what's in there, what's missing, and try and figure out what's coming.
First off searching through twitter for the phrase "Data.gov congratulations" I'm able to get enough evidence that hmiller23 and Jerad Speigel of the Phase One Consulting Group built the site. I asked them on Twitter, and they said "It Uses LAMP"
Right now the site is short on data. Federal CIOs: There are hundreds of us waiting to do interesting things with your data. Invest in putting it up on Data.gov now. You will be rewarded.
Right now the breakdown of the files looks like this:
Continue readingLink List: Data.gov, Open Government Directive
Apparently, someone got the transparency memo. Here’s a bunch of links that you should have read already about the new... View Article
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