Migrants and advocates are organizing online to make government information transparent in order to protect workers' rights.
Continue readingSnap Shot Chile: Political finance at a crossroads for change
With Chile still within the eye of political finance scandal, this Latin American country may be ripe for reform. Find out more in the Sunlight Snap Shot on Chile.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Transparency needed on corporate subsidy spending in the U.S.
Ultimately, subsidy politics, spending and efficacy need to see the light of day because subsidies fundamentally affect the way the economy works.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Clear policies on open government and open data help reinforce public and private partnerships
In 2011, Paraguay became a member of the Open Government Partnership. Since then, its made several commitments to transparency and open data to bring about a more open government.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Making the federal government’s secret trove of local government data public
The federal government has an incredible trove of data on local government financial performance. This collection of 18,000 annual audits can tell researchers an enormous amount about local government financial conditions and about how these agencies spend federal grants.
Continue readingCircle September 30th for Data Transparency 2014
On Sept. 30th, the leading authorities on the creation and implementation of open data policy for our country are gathering. Data Transparency 2014, co-hosted by the Sunlight Foundation, couldn’t come at a more critical time.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Oakland’s new campaign finance app
Open Disclosure is the product of a unique partnership between the City of Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which enforces Oakland’s campaign finance laws, and OpenOakland, a civic innovation organization.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Hartford’s new open data portal
It'll take a long time to address the challenges that face Hartford and other small, post-industrial cities. But open data is one small way to enable progress and Hartford recently joined the ranks of cities with open data portals.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Beta release of the open contracting data standard
The objective of the Open Data Standard is to support governments to publish contracting data in a more accessible, interoperable and useful manner and to enable the widest possible range of stakeholders to use contracting data effectively.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Mapping city boundary change over time with open data
MapStory.org, a Sunlight Foundation OpenGov grantee, has successfully collected, processed and mapped nearly every municipal annexation to occur in the state of New York since 1625 and made the data available on StoryLayers in their site.
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