Sunlight is joining OpenCorporates in their campaign to liberate 10 million data points in 10 days. Take part in our #FlashHack and help us reach our target!
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Going Dutch with open data
The Open State Foundation has made major break through in unlocking The Netherlands' financial data and making it open and reusable. Now they have an Open Culture Data API with 694,741 records.
Continue readingMás allá de los negocios: Impactos de los datos abiertos
As a way to spread the word about the important benefits of open data, former Sunlight fellow Iris Palma translated into Spanish both our observations on how open data helps the public achieve a variety of important goals.
Continue readingWhen open data isn’t enough
If we want governments to be truly transparent, we need both reactive information disclosure and proactive access to information.
Continue readingThe Impact of Open: Keeping you healthy
Health data makes the case for the social impact of open data.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Exploring the transparency and open data landscape
There is a growing need for rich, accurate and timely information on existing organizations, projects, tools, stories and experts in the open data and transparency community.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Draw an API – An interpretation of open data by TCampers
Several people came together at TransparencyCamp to "Draw an API." Their interpretation of open data was meant to unpack the concept of open data and how non-technologists perceive it.
Continue readingA global perspective on TransparencyCamp 2014
The record-breaking success of TCamp14 extended beyond U.S. borders. With over 50 participants from more than 29 countries at this year’s TCamp, we are truly becoming a global community.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Hacking for women’s empowerment
Bread for the World Institute is organizing a hackathon to bring together coders, data scientists and data visualizers to visualize the untold story of data gaps on women’s empowerment for its upcoming 2015 Hunger Report.
Continue readingAnswering the VA scandal with transparency
One of the Department of Veterans Affairs' responses to its wait-list scandal is unprecedented: They are increasing transparency and opening up data.
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