Sunlight Foundation

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1818 N St. NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036, USA

The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. Learn more about our work here: http://sunlightfoundation.com/ and follow us on twitter @sunfoundation.

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International open data hackathon 2011: Better tools, more data, bigger fun

The year in local open data

Written by Alisha Green It was another year full of encouraging news on the open data front in states and municipalities across the country. New open data policies were…

Harnessing citizen participation via social media and open source tools

Open and interactive budget data launches in New Orleans

By guest author Kelsey Foster Scandals, mismanagement, and back-room deals; the City of New Orleans has long endured a legacy of opaque policies and decision-making processes…

The best and brightest in open government at TransparencyCamp 2014

It's Open Government Week at Opensource.com, and the Sunlight Foundation is celebrating by bringing amazing people and projects together in open government, open data, and…

Join Sunlight Foundation for TransparencyCamp 2014

It's Open Government Week. And one way of celebrating it is by bringing some amazing people and projects in the open government, open data and civic hacking space together…

Transparent civic improvement with crowdfunding platform Neighbor.ly

There are two processes in the public sphere that we all depend on but that few of us really understand. And what's worse is that both are in trouble. The first is the process…

Solving local problems through citizen participation

Bloomberg Philanthropies recently launched the Mayors Challenge, a contest for funding in the European Union where large cities submit new, innovative ideas for solving local…