New G8 Open Data Charter

The G8 countries today released a new declaration, and with it an Open Data Charter policy paper, which together constitute a significant high-level commitment to open data and transparency. Sunlight has been close to the ideas, movement, and conversations that have helped lead to this announcement.  We're thrilled to see such a visible, detailed stat
Posted on Sunlight Foundation on June 18, 2013 at 4:32 PM

2Day in #OpenGov 6/18/2013

by Carrie Tian, policy intern NEWS: A California budget facing a vote on Friday would save millions - at the cost of crippling existing public record laws. The budget would remove the need for agencies to provide documents electronically and respond to records requests within 10 days. California would no longer need to reimburse its agen
Posted on Sunlight Foundation on June 18, 2013 at 11:29 AM

Possible impacts of the Czech political turmoil

The Czech Republic has been facing a rather earth-shattering corruption scandal that is probably one of the most revolutionary episodes in the history of the small Central European country - and the whole post-communist region since the transition. The political turmoil has been evoked by an unprecedented police action last week where some 400 anti-org
Posted on Sunlight Foundation on June 18, 2013 at 10:19 AM

Announcing a new grant to Sunlight from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Sunlight is very proud to share the news that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will award us $4 million over the next three years to increase our ability to make more government data more accessible, especially on the state and local level. With this new support, we will focus more on making more government data accessible to more and more pe
Posted on Sunlight Foundation on June 18, 2013 at 9:57 AM

What Do Guns Have to Do With Immigration? For Gun Owners of America, Everything

Posted on PR Watch on June 18, 2013 at 8:39 AM

Follow #OpenGov Leaders on Micropublishing

I spend a fair amount of time on the Twitter micropublishing service, sharing links & ideas – to follow along, just click “subscribe” in the left-hand sidebar:  #opengov list – my go-to list, mostly gov’t transparency & civic engagement & non-profit news & innovation. E.g. @digiphile. political s
Posted on Open Congress on June 17, 2013 at 11:40 PM

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Another ALEC Voting Bill

Posted on PR Watch on June 17, 2013 at 6:43 PM

The SEC and Dark Political Money

In August 2011, 10 law professors petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require publicly traded companies to disclose their political spending.  This is not a new issue.  Back in 1999, a Harvard Law Review article urged the SEC to require new disclosures by publicly traded companies including reports on corporate political expendit
Posted on Sunlight Foundation on June 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM

2Day in #OpenGov 6/17/2013

by Carrie Tian, policy intern NEWS: The Scripps Howard News Service team discovered online PDFs of complete applications for TerraCom, a provider of federally subsidized phone service, and downloaded tens of thousands of them using a web scraper. TerraCom is accusing the Scripps reporters of being hackers and violating the Computer Fraud
Posted on Sunlight Foundation on June 17, 2013 at 11:57 AM

ALEC Tours Tar Sands, Works With Industry Groups To Block Low-Carbon Fuel Standards

Posted on PR Watch on June 17, 2013 at 8:20 AM

Join CMD for ALEC Exposed Panel at Netroots Nation 2013

Posted on PR Watch on June 17, 2013 at 8:08 AM

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