Last year saw advances and setbacks for opening data about the ownership of corporations, but it's critical that the world continues to push for genuine transparency and access to company registers as open data in 2017.
Continue readingHow Data Refuge works, and how YOU can help save federal open data
Editor’s Note: Last week, Sunlight joined Abbie Grotke, a digital library project manager at the Library of Congress, and professor... View Article
Continue readingCrowdsourcing a Constitution: Mexico City’s experiment in collaborative drafting
This is the story of Mexico City's efforts to crowdsource a constitution, as told by Bernardo Rivera-Muñozcano, a political advisor in General Counselor’s Office.
Continue readingThe White House should publish text of Presidential actions immediately online
The White House should publish text of all Presidential actions on WhiteHouse.gov immediately upon the President's signature. Anything less invites disaster by creating the potential for disinformation and misinterpretation of legally binding directives.
Continue readingAfter MuckRock FOIA lawsuit, CIA publishes declassified documents online
“The CIA is made up of American citizens just like you. The people that I work with, we believe that we hold these records in trust for the American people. When their sensitivity attenuates over time, we feel we have a responsibility so the American people can judge them for themselves. It’s important that we put these source documents online.”- Joseph Lambert
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Telling open data stories about military history with data.mil
Earlier this month, the Department of Defense launched a new open government data platform, data.mil. Above, you can see a... View Article
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Cape Coral’s small budget approach to open government
Through our partnership with What Works Cities, Cape Coral has been able to make significant progress on our strategic objective to achieve more transparency and provide access to open data to our community.
Continue readingSunlight Labs update: Nonprofits step up to preserve tools for transparency
Five weeks ago, we promised that we would strive to close down Sunlight Labs efficiently, responsibly and transparently. We’re well on our way to achieving those goals, and have an update to share with you on our existing tools.
Continue readingThe local projects that are making police complaint data open and accessible
Police complaint data can fuel transparency — here are the local projects that are leading the way.
Continue readingHow we’re wrapping up Sunlight Labs in the open
For the past few weeks, we’ve been hard at work wrapping up Sunlight Labs. Here's how we're keeping it open and sustainable.
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