Last Friday, the Sunlight Foundation participated in a "data transparency town hall" hosted by the Treasury Department to hear from stakeholders on DATA Act implementation. Our comments are posted here.
Continue readingHouse moves to restrict open data on corporate financial statements
Last night the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5405 which, among other things, would exempt more than half of public companies in the U.S. from reporting their financial statements as open data.
Continue readingRecovery.gov dumps DUNS, highlighting need for open entity IDs
A trove of data will soon disappear from Recovery.gov. It's a relatively minor blow for transparency in the end, but highlights a problem with how the US government tracks the entities it does business with.
Continue readingGAO confirms USASpending data quality problems
A GAO report on the subpar spending data available at USASpending.gov confirms the findings of Sunlight's Clearspending project — and highlights the need for spending data standards.
Continue readingSenators show commitment to DATA Act implementation … will OMB follow suit?
Senators pushed Shaun Donovan, President Obama's nominee to lead OMB, on DATA Act implementation at a hearing yesterday.
Continue readingWhy open data and accountability are not the same thing
Open data is a tool, not an end in itself, much as a hammer is not an end in itself. It is just one factor necessary to produce the transparency that allows us to achieve accountability.
Continue readingHow unique is the new U.S. DATA Act?
Where does the DATA Act stand in the international context? We took a look at some of the innovative approaches from other national governments.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Properly implementing the DATA Act is key to the success of the Act
The DATA Act provides new hope for data transparency, and implementing it through tools such as a standard data dictionary and core repository may be the way to ensure its success.
Continue readingDATA Act signed into law (after C.O.B on Friday)
On Friday evening, while most of Washington was starting their weekend, President Obama quietly signed the DATA Act into law.
Continue readingWhy the DATA Act will be good for local transparency, too
Sunlight has long been a supporter of the DATA Act, which will help open federal spending data. The DATA Act could help improve local financial transparency, too.
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