Yesterday, the Office of Science and Technology at the White House filed a request for public comment on the administration’s... View Article
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
Continue readingApps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge
Announcing Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge
We've been planning this for awhile. Ever since we heard about Data.gov we have been planning a contest, and if you're reading this blog post, that means Data.gov has finally launched.
I'm pleased to wave the green flag on Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. This is a development and visualization challenge to see who can come up with the best application and visualization for data from Data.gov.
These are exciting times for us-- the walls between Government and Developers are starting to shrink, and we here in Sunlight Labs are terribly excited to get to work on doing great things with the data that's coming out. Government has made a move in the right direction-- now it is time for us to show them what we can do.
We're happy to launch Apps for America 2, this time with support from our friends. Google's put in some prize money, as has Craig Newmark, the founder of Craig's list. O'Reilly and Techweb have provided another wonderful incentive: tickets and table space to Gov2.0 summit for the winners.
Finally, we think that in building this community of technical talent, that we need not only developers but also talented and creative artists and visualizers. So we've created a special bonus "visualization and design" prize that will hopefully bring new ideas and talent to the table.
Take a look at our Apps for America 2 page for all the rules and details. This is going to be the best Apps for America yet.
Please, spread the word far and wide! This is the technical community's first and best chance to show our federal government the kind of talent and creativity that we all have, and more importantly to show it what happens when it engages the technical community.
Let the Games Begin.
Continue readingOur One Click Future
Last Thursday, Richard MacManus, founder and editor of ReadWriteWeb, posted an interesting piece titled “Understanding the New Web Era: Web... View Article
Continue readingWeekly Media Roundup – May 1, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article
Continue readingShould Data.gov visualize? Probably not.
A few people who saw our Data.gov design post asked for ways to visualize the data on Data.gov. As an organization that's such a proponent of data not only being free, but also using design to provide context to the data, why don't we advocate for data.gov to have visualizations for citizens to make sense of the data?
Continue readingRedesigning the Government: Data.gov
One thing we’ve been most excited about here at the Sunlight Foundation is the concept of Data.gov. Due later this year, new federal CIO Vivek Kundra will release a new central repository for government data and research. And while in this series we traditionally re-design federal websites, we thought we’d actually take the opportunity to design data.gov right off the bat to show you all what we’d like to see happen.
Continue readingKundra’s Mission
It’s an understatement to say that us open government advocates have placed great hope on Vivek Kundra. We take President... View Article
Continue readingMaking Government Web Sites Searchable – A Vital First Step
Last week, U.S. Rep. Mike Honda (Calif.) guest blogged on O’Reilly Radar and asked, “how can Congress take advantage of... View Article
Continue readingWired’s Wiki
Midnight tonight (Eastern Time), Wired is officially launching “Data.gov Is Coming — Let’s Help Build It,” a wiki designed to... View Article
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