Post: 6 September 2015 Last week on Twitter (from whence all things open data begin) Lawrence Serewicz drew our attention to the launch of Power Search, a new search engine for political campaign contribution data for California, and asked: As covered by…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: MapLight
Do we need a better open data tool for UK political donations?
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: campaign finance, donations, Finance, funding, mapgubbins, MapLight, Owen Boswarva, politics, Power Search
OpenGov Voices: 10 years of shining a light on money in politics with MapLight
MapLight Co-founder Daniel G. Newman. MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit I co-founded to track money’s influence on politics, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It’s been an incredible decade of growth for us and the broader transparency and accountability field.…
Posted in Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: Congress, MapLight, open government, OpenGov, Sunlight Foundation, Transparency, USA