Government

Resistance to open data is much older than the concept of open data itself. Those who control—and/or benefit from the control of—data have traditionally resisted its open…

Interested citizens and government professionals, meet your new pal, Scout. It sends you notifications when new developments in government happen—your government, your…

UPDATE: Six mobile applications have been selected for teams to work on. Each app targets a different facet of the community where there is an information gap. The apps will…

Recently, I created and launched a new website for the Sunlight Foundation called Scout . It's the product I'm the most proud of building in my three years there. It is…

In case you haven't noticed, it's an election year in the United States. And with the election in full swing, there is a plethora of data, from a myriad of sources, about what…

Open Source for America launched a petition Thursday to "Free the Code," an effort to encourage the U.S. federal government to release custom-developed, taxpayer-funded…