Legal Research

$2 Million for Online Access to Public Government Documents

By Simon Chester

Our congratulations to Public.Resource.Org a non-profit organization focused on enabling online access to public government documents in the United States. Today it won a $2 million award from Google’s Project 10¹⁰⁰ competition ? 10¹⁰⁰ is 1 googol ? which called for “ideas to change the world”.

Google’s competition garnered 150,000 ideas from more than 170 countries. Google whittled that list down to a final 16 ideas for public vote. Public Resource came in second equal, after FIRST a non-profit organization that promotes science and math education around the world through team competition.

The Law.Gov initiative aims to make all primary legal materials in the United States available to all.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).