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As Sunlight’s Video production Director it is my delight to be producing an ongoing video series called OpenGov Champions, featuring... View Article
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Continue readingDisturbing trend in Texas counties limiting public access to public records
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Continue readingFilming OpenGov Champions: Waldo Jaquith
As a part of my job as Video Production Director here at Sunlight, I work on a short documentary video... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Using Python for government transparency
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Continue readingOpen Data Policy Guidelines
“Open Data” policies have been making their way through legislative bodies and executive orders with increasing frequency, especially since 2009.... View Article
Continue readingBest practices for state and local bloggers
With contribution from Amy Ngai Earlier this month, a few of us from the Sunlight Foundation attended two of the major online political organizing conventions: Netroots Nation 2012 and Right Online. Both events highlighted the challenges faced by local and state bloggers, and gave recommendations for bloggers on how to reach a broader audience. We always encourage local bloggers and writers to share their experience in promoting government transparency in their local communities by writing guest blogs. You can read our past guest blog posts here. Blogs prove time and time again to be one of the quickest inexpensive ways of getting the word out – in real time. And if used right, they can be an important platform to call for accountability and transparency from our respective governments.
Continue readingA veil of secrecy over missing guns, drugs and money in Asheville, NC
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Continue readingScout: Sunlight’s New Custom Alert Service
A core mission of the Sunlight Foundation is to enable citizen participation through technology and lower the bar to access government. Through our free tools we're constantly looking for ways to produce a more transparent and accountable government. Today, we're proud to introduce Scout, a tool that allows you to create customized keyword alerts to notify you whenever issues you care about are included in legislative or regulatory actions.
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