
EveryPolitician, an aptly named new project from Poplus and mySociety, has a simple yet arduous mission: collect and share data about every single politician in the world. It’s a bold initiative, but the project is well on its way to…
Sunlight’s annual unconference, TransparencyCamp, is right around the corner on Sept. 11-12! (If you haven’t registered yet, make sure you grab your tickets!) We couldn’t be more excited to host the open government community here in D.C. to chat how…
Mayor Tony Yarber signs the open data executive order in Jackson, Miss. In a huge step forward for transparency in the city of Jackson, Miss., Mayor Tony Yarber has today signed an executive order that will create an open data…
Chris Adams, president of Engaged Public Creating a budget is one of the most important tasks of government, but citizens are more disconnected than ever from the public budgets that direct large chunks of their personal income and pay for…
Tom Nash, journalist and FOIA agitator The city of Richmond, Va., recently unveiled an open data portal that gives people access to important data that had long languished in dark corners of its website. Everything from crime data to property…
An illegal fishing vessel from Gabon. (Photo credit: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) While open data is at the center of what we do at the Sunlight Foundation, our emphasis has always been in the context of monitoring the influence…