Opening up sensitive or private data can be a challenging or risky endeavor. But there are a number of strategies that governments employ to balance openness and protectiveness.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: What was the real cost of Guatemala’s elections?
Shady campaign tactics and illegal money may have tainted Guatemala's presidential election. Will it be a turning point in the country's fight against corruption?
Continue readingPRIDE Act highlights importance of criminal justice data standards
The PRIDE Act would encourage greater data collection on criminal justice across the U.S. and would make standardizing that data a priority.
Continue readingWhy the OGP needs to get serious about freedom of information laws
The Open Government Partnership and the next Argentine government need to take freedom of information laws much more seriously.
Continue readingCalifornia’s new OpenJustice initiative illuminates criminal justice data
California's OpenJustice portal uses interactive visualization tools and analysis to open up criminal justice data. We chatted with one of the folks behind the project to discover how they got it done and what's next.
Continue readingAnnouncing Sunlight’s updated draft open data executive order
Thanks to the incredible feedback we received from all of you, we have significantly improved policy language for people to start an open data conversation in their communities.
Continue readingNew draft of Declaration on Political Finance Openness released
In honor of the 2015 Open Government Partnership Summit, we are happy to release the newest draft of the Declaration on Political Finance Openness as part of the Money, Politics and Transparency project (MPT).
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Can we trust open data from an authoritarian government?
How can datasets be trusted when they are published by an authoritarian government?
Continue readingJustice Department ends IRS investigation – now we need to tame dark money
In a letter to members of Congress, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik announced this afternoon that the Justice Department was ending its investigation of Lois Lerner and the IRS' treatment of Tea Party groups.
Continue readingCorporate money easily finds its way into Argentine elections
As we approach the 2015 Argentina elections, Sunlight found corporate money easily finds its way to political campaigns — even though it's prohibited on paper.
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