Trying to ensure the accessibility of digital documents was the goal of the PDF Liberation Hackathon, held over the Martin Luther King Jr. day weekend in at least six cities. Sunlight provided the DC venue.
Continue readingHow the Indian rail website accidentally stops bribery
Sunlight's in India for the Coalition Against Corruption Summit, but one of the most interesting ideas about corruption came to us as we tried to book train tickets.
Continue readingGovernment Accountability and Transparency Board to Hear Public Testimony on January 22
The Government Accountability and Transparency Board (GAT Board) is holding an open meeting next Wednesday, January 22. The board will be hearing presentations from the public and is specifically looking for feedback from users of federal spending data.
Continue readingAn all-Bitcoin super PAC opens, then immediately closes
The Bitcoin Voters PAC — a super PAC intending to receive and spend money entirely in Bitcoin — opened its doors on Jan. 6, and promptly closed them just two days later. Why?
Continue readingHow Sunlight updated Churnalism — and created a new tool in the process
Yesterday we told you we updated Churnalism with fresher Wikipedia content. Today, we'll tell you about the technical challenges involved — and about a new tool spawned from that effort.
Continue readingChurnalism now updated with fresher Wikipedia content
We've updated our version of Churnalism, making it more reliable than ever to discover the journalism you can trust — and what you should question.
Continue readingA permanent hacker space in the Brazilian Congress
The Brazilian Congress just opened a physical hacker space - open to the public, and right inside the Congress' own building!
Continue readingFITARA Isn’t a Panacea for Government IT Contracting
Ever since Healthcare.gov's epic launch failure, problems with IT procurement have entered the mainstream. Can a promising new bill known as FITARA fix the system?
Continue readingProjects that Hack using Sunlight APIs
In the past few months we have had the pleasure of partnering with Hack Reactor, an honors-level, immersive coding academy in San Francisco. Check out what their students did with Sunlight's APIs.
Continue readingThe 12 Days of APIs (version 2.0)
‘Tis the season for application programming interfaces. We have the perfect present for the open data developer in your life: a Sunlight Labs API key! Here are our “12 days of APIs” for 2013; no singing required!
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