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| 10.01.2025 | Editorials | Editorial: A peaceful election certification stands in sharp contrast to the Trump-fueled chaos of Jan. 6, 2021 | Amazingly, Trump used the insurrection — which he called a “day of love” — to peddle the lies, conspiracy theories and grievances that helped fuel his looming return to the Oval Office.
In two weeks, Trump will take the oath of office as th... |
| 16.08.2023 | State Auditor DiZoglio Issues Letter to Attorney General Campbell Regarding MA Legislative Audit | Boston — In March 2023, I announced that our office was conducting an audit of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives (together, the “Legislature”). The audit includes budgetary, hiring, spending, and procurement information,... |
| 19.08.2019 | The Business Case for Mobility Data Sharing | |
| 31.12.2018 | Venture Capital’s Sovereign Wealth Crisis Cometh
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| 25.01.2018 | KHN analysis: The revolving door between Capitol Hill and the drug industry | Azar was confirmed Wednesday as HHS secretary, joining other former drug industry alumni in top positions.
Nearly 340 former congressional staffers now work for pharmaceutical companies or their lobbying firms, according to data analyzed by... |
| 04.12.2017 | Verizon Stores Become Target of National Protests to Protect Net Neutrality Ahead of FCC Vote | Most Americans use the internet while reaping the benefits of net neutrality without even knowing it. Net neutrality is an Obama-era set of regulations that keeps internet service providers (ISP)— huge companies like Comcast, Time Warner, A... |
| 11.09.2017 | The tech tools crucial to rescuers during Hurricane Harvey | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When news came that Hurricane Harvey was set to p... |
| 11.09.2017 | The tech tools crucial to rescuers during Hurricane Harvey | When news came that Hurricane Harvey was set to pound the Gulf Coast, I was initially skeptical of its potential damage. There had been many false alarms in the past, so one never knew if a storm would end up being devastating or practicall... |
| 27.01.2017 | Rogue National Park Service Twitter account says it’s no longer run by government employees…but maybe it never was | The rogue government Twitter account, AltUSNatParkService, which claimed it was being run by current park rangers, says it has now handed off control of its Twitter account to “several activists and journalists who believe they can continue... |
| 25.01.2017 | Government agencies banned from tweeting under the Trump administration | Donald Trump loves Twitter! The president prefers to communicate policy decisions and condemnations of various news outlets via tweet, and has continued using his insecure Android phone to access Twitter, despite discouragement from aides a... |
| 01.11.2016 | Politwoops gets a new public interest parent: ProPublica | Politwoops, the service that preserves politicians’ deleted tweets for posterity and to hold them to account, has a new parent: nonprofit, public interest investigative journalism corporation ProPublica.
The move follows the non-profit Sunl... |
| 21.09.2016 | Why Colin Kaepernick Is Not Backing Down | On Tuesday, just as protests turned violent after a fatal police shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made an announcement: the $1 million dollars he plans to donate to organizations that f... |
| 09.09.2016 | DOJ Proudly Trumpets Its Completely BS 91% FOIA Response Rate | Lies, damned lies, and the DOJ’s FOIA fulfillment rate. |
| 19.08.2016 | A bunch of #opengov groups are leading a California ‘database hunt’ | The Data Foundation, the sister organization of the Data Coalition that launched this winter, is teaming up with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation to hold a “California Database Hunt.”
The goal? California’s loc... |
| 29.06.2016 | Why Google’s murky lobbying in the US is making Apple look good | By John Barrick and Jennifer Brown
Tech giant Apple last week told Politico it would withhold support for the Republican National Convention due to comments made by Donald Trump. Apple competitors Google and Facebook are still supporters th... |
| 16.03.2016 | Inside the Brussels tech lobbying bubble: Crumby cocktails at dawn | Steve Collis reader comments 9 with 8 posters participating
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At the start of this year, the so-called EU transparency register reached a staggering 9,000 entries. Which is t... |
| 18.02.2016 | Rosie Williams – Founder of OpenAus | Website Twitter Contact via Email Take the OpenAus Survey
We’re proud to feature this interview with Rosie Williams, founder of OpenAus, who is doing some excellent work advocating for open data and transparency, while collating and present... |
| 09.02.2016 | U.S. Version Of Politwoops Comes Back Online To Track Politicians’ Deleted Tweets | Politwoops, a service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets in an effort to hold elected officials accountable for the statements they make on social media, is now back online in the U.S. The restoration of the service, announced today by... |
| 09.02.2016 | Where Hillary and Jeb are raising money, mapped | When it comes to holding fundraisers, not all presidential candidates are created equal.
This according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation, in which the organization has visualized the fundraising efforts of the Clinton and Bush c... |
| 09.02.2016 | Where Hillary and Jeb are raising money, mapped | When it comes to holding fundraisers, not all presidential candidates are created equal.
This according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation, in which the organization has visualized the fundraising efforts of the Clinton and Bush c... |
| 31.12.2015 | Politwoops Is Back. Is Twitter Finally Listening to Users? | Politwoops, the site that aggregated deleted tweets from politicians, is coming back after being blocked by Twitter in May. It's a move that signals Twitter's efforts to define what free speech means on its platform, and one of a few recent... |
| 28.10.2015 | Six Problems With Our Democracy… And Who’s Working To Fix Them | Jason Putorti Contributor
Jason Putorti is the Designer-in-Residence for Bessemer Venture Partners, co-founder of Brigade and Votizen, and was the original designer at Mint.
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| 22.10.2015 | Twitter Hints That It May Re-Enable Politwoops, The Service That Tracks Politicians’ Deleted Tweets | According to remarks made by Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday, it seems as if Twitter may be reversing its earlier decision to ban Politwoops, a service that tracked politicians’ deleted tweets, holding them accountable for things the... |
| 04.09.2015 | Human Rights Groups Lambast Twitter For Banning Service That Tracked Politicians’ Deleted Tweets | Seventeen international human rights and transparency groups, including the Sunlight Foundation, EFF, Free Press, Open State Foundation, Human Rights Watch and others, are taking Twitter to task for its decision to ban the Politwoops tool l... |
| 24.08.2015 | Twitter Shuts Down Services That Tracked Politicians’ Deleted Tweets In 30 Countries | Two services that tracked deleted tweets by politicians and other diplomats in an effort to maintain a transparent, public record of statements made on social media, Politwoops and its sister site Diplotwoops, have now been cut off from acc... |
| 24.08.2015 | Twitter Kills Sites Across the World That Archived Politicians’ Deleted Tweets | One of the biggest operations for preserving politicians’ deleted tweets has been shut down.
The Open State Foundation say that Twitter has cut off its API access for its Politwoops and Diplotwoops sites. The sites were simple – they just p... |
| 22.07.2015 | 5 big ideas from Hack for Diversity and Social Justice | As Artscape crowds sweated below, about three-dozen people came together in a University of Baltimore room to Hack for Diversity and Social Justice over the weekend.
Organized by Presidential Innovation Fellow Tyrone Grandison and Startup M... |
| 30.06.2015 | It's 2015 And Congress Is Now, Finally, Allowed To Use Open Source Technologies | First, the good news: members of the House of Representatives in the US Congress are now allowed to use open source technology in their offices, rather than the very limited list of proprietary offerings they were given in the past. Second,... |
| 04.06.2015 | Sunlight Foundation ‘mystified’ as to why Twitter killed Politwoops | A day after news hit that Twitter cut off the feed that fueled the deleted politician tweet site Politwoops, the site’s owner, the Sunlight Foundation, said it’s confused about the real reasons for the move.
“Sunlight is mystified as to why... |
| 04.06.2015 | Sunlight Foundation ‘mystified’ as to why Twitter killed Politwoops | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A day after news hit that Twitter cut off the fee... |
| 04.06.2015 | Twitter Just Cut Off Politwoops In Another Effort To Keep The Platform Closed | Mike recently made the case that in the information age, platforms would do better to be open rather than closed. Being open means allowing that thing you started to branch off in many directions making you more useful to more people. Being... |
| 03.06.2015 | Twitter kills Sunlight Foundation site that tracked politicians’ deleted tweets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Twitter has shut off access to the API that let the Sunlight Foundation’s Politwoops site track and publish the deleted tweets of polit... |
| 12.05.2015 | These 7 legal hacks are providing greater access to justice | For many, the law and its institutions are unapproachable, unaffordable and impenetrable. We’d much rather avoid the law than ever risk engaging with it. However, around the country, lawyers, advocates and technologists are changing the way... |
| 21.04.2015 | New Johns Hopkins center to help cities tap power of data | Michael Bloomberg thinks using more data is the way to help city governments work better for citizens, and his alma mater is a big part of that play.
On Monday, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the launch of What Works Cities. It’s a $42 ... |
| 08.04.2015 | Surveillance Reform Movement Rallies Ahead Of June 1 Deadline | After two years of roadblocks in reforming the National Security Agency programs revealed by Edward Snowden, it seems the viral John Oliver segment and impending program deadline are breathing new life into a reform movement that has seemed... |
| 01.04.2015 | Massive Anti-Net Neutrality E-mail Campaign Shows Signs Of Faking Many Signatures | During the first round of the FCC’s net neutrality comment period, the agency was absolutely swamped by public input (including ours), the vast majority of it supporting net neutrality. After the agency released a database of the comments, ... |
| 04.02.2015 | Net neutrality supporters were outspent, but still won over the FCC (in 1 graph) | Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler handed a big win to Internet companies and the American public today, announcing strong support for net neutrality. Well-heeled telecoms shelled out far more cash on Capitol Hill to sto... |
| 23.12.2014 | FCC Confirms That Nearly 4M Net Neutrality Comments Were Submitted By The Public | After some katzenjammer about just how many comments were submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) dealing with net neutrality, the governmental agency confirmed today that ... |
| 18.12.2014 | Anti-Net Neutrality Lobbyists Did Not Dominate the FCC's Comment Process | The pro-net neutrality movement is still winning the battle for public opinion regarding internet equality, despite what you may have heard.
A recent analysis of the millions of comments received by the Federal Communications Commission du... |
| 17.12.2014 | Bizarre Fight Commences Over Who 'Won' Latest Net Neutrality Comment Round | Back in October, we pointed out the pointlessness of focusing on who sent more comments to the FCC over net neutrality, as there appeared to be a whole lot of astroturfing and misleading tactics being used to ratchet up the counts. That did... |
| 16.12.2014 | “Shadowy” anti-net neutrality group flooded FCC with comments [Updated] | A form letter opposing net neutrality rules. reader comments 180 with 90 posters participating
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| 09.12.2014 | How Technology is Impacting Government Transparency | Technology and innovation are always large catalysts of change, but these changes tend to happen in the private sector first. More recently, however, these changes can be seen within government.
Millions of dollars have been invested in civ... |
| 08.12.2014 | Sen. Rockefeller Sitting On FOIA Improvement Act, Despite Two Unanimous Votes In Favor Of Passage | A FOIA reform bill that sailed through both the House (410-0) and the Senate Judiciary Committee (again with a unanimous vote) is currently stalled, having gone nowhere for the past two weeks thanks to Sen. Jay Rockefeller. |
| 11.11.2014 | Philly government is ‘soul crushing’ but that’s not why Tony D’Abruzzo is leaving [Exit Interview] | Tony D’Abruzzo’s job kind of drove him crazy.
D’Abruzzo, who until recently ran the Philadelphia Police Department program to train cops as data scientists, liked to say: “If you’re in city government and you don’t have a drinking problem, ... |
| 28.10.2014 | What you missed at #RiseConf14 | Late last week, Technical.ly’s Rise conference welcomed civic hackers (more on that word choice in a bit) from across the East Coast to share their insights on how to incubate and scale socially conscious, civically engaged tech communities... |
| 09.10.2014 | Come to our ‘Rise’ conference to hear Alisha Green discuss open gov | There’s an open government policy boom, and now’s the time for tech communities to weigh in.
That’s one of the themes Alisha Green, a policy associate at the Sunlight Foundation, will address this month at Technical.ly’s Rise conference.
Th... |
| 09.10.2014 | Come to our ‘Rise’ conference to hear Alisha Green discuss open gov | There’s an open government policy boom, and now’s the time for tech communities to weigh in.
That’s one of the themes Alisha Green, a policy associate at the Sunlight Foundation, will address this month at Technical.ly’s Rise conference.
Th... |
| 08.10.2014 | DC’s restrictions on open data? They’re working on it | When D.C. tried to make its open data policy a little more open last month, open government activists were not satisfied. But the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) has weathered the criticism and promised further changes.
“It’s ... |
| 15.09.2014 | At NYC's 'Rally to Save the Internet,' Net Neutrality Wasn't Just for Geeks | At today's "Rally to Save the Internet," a protest in New York City aimed at preserving net neutrality and preventing the Time Warner Cable-Comcast merger, 30 people showed up. And then 50. And then 100. And then 150. And then mor... |
| 15.09.2014 | Net Neutrality Advocates Make Last FCC Push as Comment Window Closes | Net neutrality advocates mounted a large video billboard outside Federal Communications Commission headquarters Monday, on the last day for public comment on the Commission’s proposed Internet regulations. The laws, if approved, would allow... |
| 15.09.2014 | Republican group convinces 772,000 people to oppose “Internet regulation” | American Commitment reader comments 199 with 116 posters participating
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| 09.09.2014 | Companies that sell network equipment to ISPs don’t want net neutrality | Taramisu reader comments 126 with 63 posters participating
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Thirty-three companies that make equipment used by Internet service providers today called on the US to avoid reg... |
| 04.09.2014 | Big tech companies plan “Internet Slowdown” to fight for net neutrality | Fight for the Future reader comments 83 with 66 posters participating
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Next week, some of the biggest tech companies will lead a symbolic “Internet Slowdown” to protest the ... |
| 04.09.2014 | Net neutrality battle gearing up as public comment period looms, have you shared your two cents? | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 04 September 2014, 07:09 am
In case the estimated 99 percent of processed comments speaking at least partially in favor of net neutrality doesn't send a strong enough message to the Federal Communications Commiss... |
| 02.09.2014 | Less Than 1% Of Comments Sent To The FCC Opposed Net Neutrality | A newly released study executed by the Sunlight Foundation of hundreds of thousands of comments submitted to the FCC by the public found that the vast majority spoke in favor of net neutrality. The group estimates that “less than 1 percent ... |
| 11.07.2014 | Why does this data from our troubled Philadelphia Traffic Court cost $11K? | William Entriken wants to analyze Philadelphia Traffic Court data. But the data, the court says, is going to cost him.
$11,200, to be exact.
Entriken, a financial analyst and civic hacker, requested a list of court cases tried in traffic co... |
| 17.06.2014 | Sunlight Foundation Gives Congress Email Addresses | The Sunlight Foundation has struck again where the government failed to act. If you’ve tried to contact your elected representatives in the US Congress, you may have noticed it’s not that easy. You have to go through a layer of annoying for... |
| 13.06.2014 | Big Pharma Companies Happy To Use The US Government To Push Industry Agenda, Not So Happy To Pay US Taxes | Big pharma companies exert considerable influence on US trade policy. Research by the Sunlight Foundation shows that the pharmaceutical industry has been lobbying for the measures it wants in TPP longer and more consistently than any other ... |
| 05.05.2014 | TV Networks Sued For Hiding Who's Buying Political Ads | The money in politics issue is one that gets a lot of attention and the good folks over at the Sunlight Foundation have been trying to help provide much more transparency for years. And now they’re bringing out the lawyers. Teaming up with ... |
| 25.04.2014 | A Revolving Door of Telecom Lobbyists Is Paving a Fast Lane Over the Open Web | Image: ChrisDag/Flickr
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing we pave over the open internet with a 'fast lane' reserved for those who can afford to travel in style. (Let's just embrace the media's favorite metaphor for this con... |
| 16.04.2014 | Will the TPP feed consumers to the wolves of Wall Street? | In the wake of the global financial crisis, there’s been a push by policy-makers for greater regulation of banks, financial institutions and the “wolves of Wall Street”. This was accompanied by a highly visible Occupy Wall Street movement, ... |
| 24.02.2014 | Google’s Eric Schmidt Will Give $1 Million In Tech-For-Good Grants | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he is donating $1 million to help solve global problems through technology. “I think I should put my money where my mouth is,” Schmidt told CBS, in a promotion for The New Digital Age, his book co-written w... |
| 10.02.2014 | Esri Enables Federal Agencies To Open GIS Mapping Data To The Public | A debate in the technology world that’s been simmering for years, about whether mapping vendor Esri will allow public geographic information systems (GIS) to access government customers’ data, finally has an answer: The mapping software gia... |
| 04.02.2014 | White House Conspicuously Silent As It Attacks A Bill To Make Spending Transparent | Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to usher in a new wave of data transparency. And, with the exception of the NSA, the administration has pioneered groundbreaking open government initiatives, from maps of stimulus spending to the vault... |
| 01.11.2013 | HealthCare.gov costs show that feds have literally no idea how to build a big web site | Could you build a working website for $300 million?
Apparently, the U.S. government is having difficulty doing that. HealthCare.gov, the website meant to help people find insurance under the Affordable Care Act, has cost hundreds of million... |
| 09.09.2013 | Jim Querry: 5 ways the city’s former mapping chief changed City Hall | Jim Querry was in charge of all the dots on the maps for the City of Philadelphia for nearly two decades, spanning a period of enormous change — and opportunity to shape the future of the city.
Despite all the technology that has flooded th... |
| 26.07.2013 | Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov | The folks from the Sunlight Foundation have noticed that the Change.gov website, which was set up by the Obama transition team after the election in 2008 has suddenly been scrubbed of all of its original content. They noted that the front p... |
| 22.03.2013 | CISPA Sponsor Tweets, Then Deletes, About How Much More Lobbying Dollars Have Come From Pro-CISPA Groups | Ah, transparency. The Sunlight Foundation put together Politwoops last year to highlight tweets that elected officials deleted. Mostly it’s innocuous stuff, but sometimes some real gems come through. For example, the account of Rep. Mike Ro... |
| 13.03.2013 | Whither whistleblowing: Where have all the leaking sites gone? | Steven Depolo reader comments 66 with 38 posters participating
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On February 3, 2013, Balkanleaks released the “Buddha dossier,” a massive trove of secret documents from the ... |
| 11.03.2013 | CISPA: Who’s For It And Who’s Against It | What if all of your online communication could be monitored and shared without a warrant? That’s what’s at stake if the latest version of CISPA, the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is approved by Congress.
After... |
| 21.02.2013 | Shea Frederick: AOL/Ad.com developer named OpenGov Champion by Sunlight Foundation [VIDEO] | Civic hacker and AOL/Ad.com developer Shea Frederick is the Sunlight Foundation‘s latest OpenGov Champion.
The nonprofit, D.C.-based foundation is known for promoting more open government and political transparency by encouraging people typ... |
| 16.01.2013 | Google.org donates $3.7M to support civic-minded technologists | Google.org, the search giant’s philanthropic arm, will make a $3.7 million donation to cultivate civic participation and engagement through technology.
The organization will dole out $2.1 million to the Sunlight Foundation to increase acces... |
| 16.01.2013 | Google.org Donates A Total Of $3.7M To Spark Civic Innovation Using Technology | Today, Google.org’s VP, Matthew Stepka, announced that the non-profit arm of Google is going to be giving a large sum money to Sunlight Foundation and mySociety to promote civic innovation through technology. Specifically, its Civic Informa... |
| 28.08.2012 | The 11 best election apps to keep you in the know | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With the Republican National Convention starting today in Tampa, the 2012 election enters its most intense phase. Thanks to our smartph... |
| 27.08.2012 | Ad Hawk: initially developed at Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia, mobile app to identify political ads launches [VIDEO] | Meet Ad Hawk, or the Little Hackathon Project That Could.
It started at last year’s Random Hacks of Kindness Philly, got picked up and launched by the Washington, D.C.-based government watchdog organization The Sunlight Foundation and just ... |
| 24.08.2012 | The SoundHound for politics, Ad Hawk IDs who’s behind political ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Political ads can be deceiving, hiding behind the glitz of their presentations the motives of the groups that run them.
Identifying tho... |
| 16.08.2012 | Four SE Michigan Universities Launch TurboVote | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TurboVote, a voter-assistance startup that was launched last fall while its founders were attending Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, announced yesterday that it has par... |
| 30.05.2012 | The Internet Never Forgets: Politwoops Saves The Tweets Your Politicians Tried To Delete | Once something is on the Internet, it’s typically pretty hard to delete it. Unless somebody retweets a posting to Twitter, though, a deleted tweet is pretty much gone forever. With Politwoops, however, the Sunlight Foundation is now preserv... |
| 24.05.2011 | Fate of Data.gov Revealed; US Gov Almost Completely Drops the Ball | When the annual budgets for e-government initiatives including Data.gov were slashed by 75% last month, it didn’t look good for the tech side of transparency. Today federal CIO Vivek Kundra has adressed the fate of these e-government progra... |
| 28.04.2011 | Celebrating Open Government: Sunlight Foundation Turns Five | The Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan organization that uses the Internet to promote government transparency and openness, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week. The foundation uses data analysis to report on government activity ... |
| 13.04.2011 | Five Open Questions For Data.gov Before We #SaveTheData | Editor’s note: Guest author Kate Ray is the co-founder of Nerd Collider, a new Q&A website designed to bring a diverse group of nerds to a temporary page to solve a problem.
Data.gov is coughing blood. The budget being negotiated by Con... |
| 12.04.2011 | Data.gov et al. Budget Slashed by 75% | Federal government transparency programs, including data resource directory Data.gov, face across-the-board budget cuts by 75% in the latest version of the federal budget to emerge from Congressional negotiations. According to the Sunlight ... |
| 01.04.2011 | Can We Use Public Data to Save the Economy? | Yesterday we reported that Data.gov and several other Web-based public data outlets may be closed as a result of proposed budget cuts. The Sunlight Foundation is trying to save these sites you can learn more about that here.
But as Clive Th... |
| 31.03.2011 | Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut | Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a number of ambitious websites, most notably Data.gov, that were dedicated to offering public and government data to the outside world. The stated intention was to foster transparency... |
| 24.01.2011 | OpenGovernment: Government Data with a Social Media Twist | The idea of “open government” got a boost last week with the launch of OpenGovernment.org, a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation. Similar to sibling project OpenCongress, which launched in 2008... |
| 18.11.2010 | Michael Robertson Facing Resistance To New Gov't Transparency Project | Over the last few years, there have been a number of important efforts to increase transparency, openness and accountability from the government — often by concerned citizens. For example, there have been things like the Sunlight Foundation... |
| 21.09.2010 | Omidyar Network promises $55M in transparency and mobile investments | Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (pictured) and his wife Pam, plans to spend a sizable chunk of its money over the next three years on government transparency and mobile services.
Spe... |
| 29.06.2010 | Net Neutrality Opponents Outspending Proponents More Than 4 to 1 | Companies opposed to Network Neutrality spent more than 4 times as much money on lobbying last quarter than organizations in support of it, according to a report on new hearings on the subject by watchdog organization Sunlight Foundation. N... |
| 23.06.2010 | Next Supreme Court Nominee’s Emails Now Searchable Gmail Style | Historical records are hard to look through casually. One solution is being explored in the case of Supreme Court justice nominee Elena Kagan’s archive of emails sent while working under the Clinton administration. That body of data is now ... |
| 21.06.2010 | Telco Industry Is Prepared For Telco Reform: It Has Hundreds Of Former Gov't Officials Ready To Write The Laws | Want to see how regulatory capture works in action? Congress is apparently gearing up to start the massive process of reforming telecom/broadband laws later this week, and the communications companies are ready for it. A recent report shows... |
| 16.04.2010 | Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka on bringing open government help to Philadelphia | If you talk to someone involved in government budget negotiations — from small towns to the federal government and everywhere in between — you might find a lot of eternal, undying truths.
One that comes to mind is what gets funded in the le... |
| 13.01.2010 | Sunlight launches real-time Congress app | Sunlight Foundation develops elegant iPhone app for tracking legislative goings-on
The Sunlight Foundation, furthering its cause to increase transparency in the United Congress, launched an iPhone app on Wednesday that delivers updates from... |
| 07.01.2010 | New Lobbying Organization Tries To Skirt The Rules So It's Not Called A Lobbying Organization | The term “lobbyist” has certainly become a dirty word in many circles — for a very valid reason in many cases. I’ve noticed that many more people have been trying to make sure they’re not referred to as lobbyists, even if the activity they ... |
| 25.08.2009 | Wikipedia’s Parent Org Gets $2 Million Grant From eBay Founder | The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic and investment organization, announced today that it will give the Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia, a $2 million grant over the next two years.
At curre... |
| 16.07.2009 | Data.gov to Face a Challenger From Sunlight Labs | Data.gov, the US federal government’s new catalog of sets of public data for outside developers to mashup and analyze, now faces some friendly competition. The Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to governm... |
| 25.06.2009 | Recovery.gov’s Data Transparency Called “Significant Failure” by Watchdog Group | The US Office of Management and Budget issued new reporting guidelines this week for recipients of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the normally polite geek watchdog organization the Sunlight Foundation ha... |
| 12.06.2009 | What Can You Do With Government Data? Bust Politicians, That’s What | Public data from the government – is it an opportunity for innovation and essential accountability or a snoozer that no one really cares about? Government transparency advocacy group The Sunlight Foundation offers one example today of somet... |
| 09.06.2009 | CorpWatch Makes SEC Data Accessible with an API and the CrocTail Application | With backing from the Sunlight Founation, non-profit CorpWatch launched CrocTail yesterday, an application to provide easy access to data from several hundred thousand publicly traded companies. We heard about it via Dion Hinchcliffe, a res... |
| 21.05.2009 | Data.gov: Another Obama site gets off to an underwhelming start | After checking out the Obama administration’s newly-launched Data.gov website, I’ve come away with an impression similar to my initial takes on the revamped WhiteHouse.gov site and Recovery.gov, the site for learning about how the governmen... |
| 05.05.2009 | US Senate Votes Now Available in XML – Bring on The Mashups! | Today is an important day in the history of politics and technology – the US Senate voting record is finally available in machine-readable XML (extensible markup language) format. Mashups, vote tracking and comparison applications, will now... |
