TRANSITIONING TO TRUMP: On Election Day, Americans voted for Donald Trump to be the 45th President of the United States.... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Opacity in the transition, Capitol Cash and rigging rumors run wild
CAPITOL CASH: Using Political Party Time as a resource, Sunlight’s Drew Doggett looked at how state officials are fundraising and... View Article
Continue readingMeasuring the impact of open data policies
After a year of diving into statistics in our graduate-level public policy program at the University of Chicago, we joined... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Lobbying in the transition, ODNI transparency, #PromoteOpenData, Bill Clinton Inc.
ETHICS IN TRANSITION: Citing three anonymous sources, Politico reports that the Clinton campaign has adopted the same strict rules that... View Article
Continue readingPresenting #PromoteOpenData, a social media guide to publicizing open data policies
(Photo credit: Jason Howie/Flickr) For policymakers, getting social media savvy is no longer an option. It’s a necessity. And it’s... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Sunlight needed in transition process, open data, and the strain of “full transparency”
MORE SUNLIGHT NEEDED: On Tuesday, we gave our support to Proposition 54 in California. We think giving the public the... View Article
Continue readingSunlight endorses ‘Open Data Action Plan’ to ensure federal transparency
The Center for Open Data Enterprise’s “Open Data Action Plan.” The Center for Open Data Enterprise released the Open Data... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Debates done, voting begins and radical transparency looms large
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve been busy since our last digest, with most of our staff traveling out to Cleveland for TransparencyCamp... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: How GitHub and Internet Archive are helping to preserve Sunlight and more
EDITOR’S NOTE: Thank you for the kind notes, inquiries and calls over the past week while Today in OpenGov was... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Trade transparency, White House Open Data Summit, NYC Council in alpha and more
LEARNINGS: The Center for Open Data Enterprise released the results of its open data roundtables over the past year in... View Article
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