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| 16.08.2023 | State Auditor DiZoglio Issues Letter to Attorney General Cam... | Boston — In March 2023, I announced that our office was conducting an audit of the Massachusetts Sen... | einpresswi... |
| 19.08.2019 | The Business Case for Mobility Data Sharing |
By Hannah Safford and Dan Sperling
The explosive growth of mobility services—scooter-sharing, bik... | forbes.com... |
| 31.12.2018 | Venture Capital’s Sovereign Wealth Crisis Cometh
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| 25.01.2018 | KHN analysis: The revolving door between Capitol Hill and th... | Azar was confirmed Wednesday as HHS secretary, joining other former drug industry alumni in top posi... | medcitynew... |
| 04.12.2017 | Verizon Stores Become Target of National Protests to Protect... | Most Americans use the internet while reaping the benefits of net neutrality without even knowing it... | vice.com/e... |
| 11.09.2017 | The tech tools crucial to rescuers during Hurricane Harvey | When news came that Hurricane Harvey was set to pound the Gulf Coast, I was initially skeptical of i... | venturebea... |
| 11.09.2017 | The tech tools crucial to rescuers during Hurricane Harvey | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 27.01.2017 | Rogue National Park Service Twitter account says it’s no lon... | The rogue government Twitter account, AltUSNatParkService, which claimed it was being run by current... | techcrunch... |
| 25.01.2017 | Government agencies banned from tweeting under the Trump adm... | Donald Trump loves Twitter! The president prefers to communicate policy decisions and condemnations ... | techcrunch... |
| 01.11.2016 | Politwoops gets a new public interest parent: ProPublica | Politwoops, the service that preserves politicians’ deleted tweets for posterity and to hold them to... | techcrunch... |
| 21.09.2016 | Why Colin Kaepernick Is Not Backing Down | On Tuesday, just as protests turned violent after a fatal police shooting in Charlotte, North Caroli... | fortune.co... |
| 09.09.2016 | DOJ Proudly Trumpets Its Completely BS 91% FOIA Response Rat... | Lies, damned lies, and the DOJ’s FOIA fulfillment rate.
The only entity that believes the DOJ has f... | techdirt.c... |
| 19.08.2016 | A bunch of #opengov groups are leading a California ‘databas... | The Data Foundation, the sister organization of the Data Coalition that launched this winter, is tea... | technical.... |
| 29.06.2016 | Why Google’s murky lobbying in the US is making Apple look g... | By John Barrick and Jennifer Brown
Tech giant Apple last week told Politico it would withhold suppo... | smartcompa... |
| 16.03.2016 | Inside the Brussels tech lobbying bubble: Crumby cocktails a... | Steve Collis reader comments 9 with 8 posters participating
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| 18.02.2016 | Rosie Williams – Founder of OpenAus | Website Twitter Contact via Email Take the OpenAus Survey
We’re proud to feature this interview wit... | ideashoist... |
| 09.02.2016 | Where Hillary and Jeb are raising money, mapped | When it comes to holding fundraisers, not all presidential candidates are created equal.
This accor... | technical.... |
| 09.02.2016 | U.S. Version Of Politwoops Comes Back Online To Track Politi... | Politwoops, a service that tracks politicians’ deleted tweets in an effort to hold elected officials... | techcrunch... |
| 31.12.2015 | Politwoops Is Back. Is Twitter Finally Listening to Users? | Politwoops, the site that aggregated deleted tweets from politicians, is coming back after being blo... | vice.com/e... |
| 28.10.2015 | Six Problems With Our Democracy… And Who’s Working To Fix Th... | Jason Putorti Contributor
Jason Putorti is the Designer-in-Residence for Bessemer Venture Partners,... | techcrunch... |
| 22.10.2015 | Twitter Hints That It May Re-Enable Politwoops, The Service ... | According to remarks made by Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday, it seems as if Twitter may be r... | techcrunch... |
| 04.09.2015 | Human Rights Groups Lambast Twitter For Banning Service That... | Seventeen international human rights and transparency groups, including the Sunlight Foundation, EFF... | techcrunch... |
| 24.08.2015 | Twitter Kills Sites Across the World That Archived Politicia... | One of the biggest operations for preserving politicians’ deleted tweets has been shut down.
The Op... | webpronews... |
| 24.08.2015 | Twitter Shuts Down Services That Tracked Politicians’ Delete... | Two services that tracked deleted tweets by politicians and other diplomats in an effort to maintain... | techcrunch... |
| 22.07.2015 | 5 big ideas from Hack for Diversity and Social Justice | As Artscape crowds sweated below, about three-dozen people came together in a University of Baltimor... | technical.... |
| 30.06.2015 | It's 2015 And Congress Is Now, Finally, Allowed To Use Open ... | First, the good news: members of the House of Representatives in the US Congress are now allowed to ... | techdirt.c... |
| 04.06.2015 | Sunlight Foundation ‘mystified’ as to why Twitter killed Pol... | A day after news hit that Twitter cut off the feed that fueled the deleted politician tweet site Pol... | venturebea... |
| 04.06.2015 | Sunlight Foundation ‘mystified’ as to why Twitter killed Pol... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 04.06.2015 | Twitter Just Cut Off Politwoops In Another Effort To Keep Th... | Mike recently made the case that in the information age, platforms would do better to be open rather... | techdirt.c... |
| 03.06.2015 | Twitter kills Sunlight Foundation site that tracked politici... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 12.05.2015 | These 7 legal hacks are providing greater access to justice | For many, the law and its institutions are unapproachable, unaffordable and impenetrable. We’d much ... | technical.... |
| 21.04.2015 | New Johns Hopkins center to help cities tap power of data | Michael Bloomberg thinks using more data is the way to help city governments work better for citizen... | technical.... |
| 08.04.2015 | Surveillance Reform Movement Rallies Ahead Of June 1 Deadlin... | After two years of roadblocks in reforming the National Security Agency programs revealed by Edward ... | techcrunch... |
| 01.04.2015 | Massive Anti-Net Neutrality E-mail Campaign Shows Signs Of F... | During the first round of the FCC’s net neutrality comment period, the agency was absolutely swamped... | techdirt.c... |
| 04.02.2015 | Net neutrality supporters were outspent, but still won over ... | Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler handed a big win to Internet companies and th... | venturebea... |
| 23.12.2014 | FCC Confirms That Nearly 4M Net Neutrality Comments Were Sub... | After some katzenjammer about just how many comments were submitted to the Federal Communications Co... | techcrunch... |
| 18.12.2014 | Anti-Net Neutrality Lobbyists Did Not Dominate the FCC's Com... | The pro-net neutrality movement is still winning the battle for public opinion regarding internet eq... | vice.com/e... |
| 17.12.2014 | Bizarre Fight Commences Over Who 'Won' Latest Net Neutrality... | Back in October, we pointed out the pointlessness of focusing on who sent more comments to the FCC o... | techdirt.c... |
| 16.12.2014 | “Shadowy” anti-net neutrality group flooded FCC with comment... | A form letter opposing net neutrality rules. reader comments 180 with 90 posters participating
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| 09.12.2014 | How Technology is Impacting Government Transparency | Technology and innovation are always large catalysts of change, but these changes tend to happen in ... | tech.co/ne... |
| 08.12.2014 | Sen. Rockefeller Sitting On FOIA Improvement Act, Despite Tw... | A FOIA reform bill that sailed through both the House (410-0) and the Senate Judiciary Committee (ag... | techdirt.c... |
| 11.11.2014 | Philly government is ‘soul crushing’ but that’s not why Tony... | Tony D’Abruzzo’s job kind of drove him crazy.
D’Abruzzo, who until recently ran the Philadelphia Po... | technical.... |
| 28.10.2014 | What you missed at #RiseConf14 | Late last week, Technical.ly’s Rise conference welcomed civic hackers (more on that word choice in a... | technical.... |
| 09.10.2014 | Come to our ‘Rise’ conference to hear Alisha Green discuss o... | There’s an open government policy boom, and now’s the time for tech communities to weigh in.
That’s... | technical.... |
| 08.10.2014 | DC’s restrictions on open data? They’re working on it | When D.C. tried to make its open data policy a little more open last month, open government activist... | technical.... |
| 15.09.2014 | At NYC's 'Rally to Save the Internet,' Net Neutrality Wasn't... | At today's "Rally to Save the Internet," a protest in New York City aimed at preserving ne... | vice.com/e... |
| 15.09.2014 | Net Neutrality Advocates Make Last FCC Push as Comment Windo... | Net neutrality advocates mounted a large video billboard outside Federal Communications Commission h... | time.com/3... |
| 15.09.2014 | Republican group convinces 772,000 people to oppose “Interne... | American Commitment reader comments 199 with 116 posters participating
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| 09.09.2014 | Companies that sell network equipment to ISPs don’t want net... | Taramisu reader comments 126 with 63 posters participating
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| 04.09.2014 | Net neutrality battle gearing up as public comment period lo... | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 04 September 2014, 07:09 am
In case the estimated 99 percent of process... | techtimes.... |
| 04.09.2014 | Big tech companies plan “Internet Slowdown” to fight for net... | Fight for the Future reader comments 83 with 66 posters participating
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| 02.09.2014 | Less Than 1% Of Comments Sent To The FCC Opposed Net Neutral... | A newly released study executed by the Sunlight Foundation of hundreds of thousands of comments subm... | techcrunch... |
| 11.07.2014 | Why does this data from our troubled Philadelphia Traffic Co... | William Entriken wants to analyze Philadelphia Traffic Court data. But the data, the court says, is ... | technical.... |
| 17.06.2014 | Sunlight Foundation Gives Congress Email Addresses | The Sunlight Foundation has struck again where the government failed to act. If you’ve tried to cont... | techdirt.c... |
| 13.06.2014 | Big Pharma Companies Happy To Use The US Government To Push ... | Big pharma companies exert considerable influence on US trade policy. Research by the Sunlight Found... | techdirt.c... |
| 05.05.2014 | TV Networks Sued For Hiding Who's Buying Political Ads | The money in politics issue is one that gets a lot of attention and the good folks over at the Sunli... | techdirt.c... |
| 25.04.2014 | A Revolving Door of Telecom Lobbyists Is Paving a Fast Lane ... | Image: ChrisDag/Flickr
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing we pave over the open int... | vice.com/e... |
| 16.04.2014 | Will the TPP feed consumers to the wolves of Wall Street? | In the wake of the global financial crisis, there’s been a push by policy-makers for greater regulat... | smartcompa... |
| 24.02.2014 | Google’s Eric Schmidt Will Give $1 Million In Tech-For-Good ... | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he is donating $1 million to help solve global problems through te... | techcrunch... |
| 10.02.2014 | Esri Enables Federal Agencies To Open GIS Mapping Data To Th... | A debate in the technology world that’s been simmering for years, about whether mapping vendor Esri ... | readwrite.... |
| 04.02.2014 | White House Conspicuously Silent As It Attacks A Bill To Mak... | Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to usher in a new wave of data transparency. And, with the ex... | techcrunch... |
| 01.11.2013 | HealthCare.gov costs show that feds have literally no idea h... | Could you build a working website for $300 million?
Apparently, the U.S. government is having diffi... | venturebea... |
| 09.09.2013 | Jim Querry: 5 ways the city’s former mapping chief changed C... | Jim Querry was in charge of all the dots on the maps for the City of Philadelphia for nearly two dec... | technical.... |
| 26.07.2013 | Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared F... | The folks from the Sunlight Foundation have noticed that the Change.gov website, which was set up by... | techdirt.c... |
| 22.03.2013 | CISPA Sponsor Tweets, Then Deletes, About How Much More Lobb... | Ah, transparency. The Sunlight Foundation put together Politwoops last year to highlight tweets that... | techdirt.c... |
| 13.03.2013 | Whither whistleblowing: Where have all the leaking sites gon... | Steven Depolo reader comments 66 with 38 posters participating
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| 11.03.2013 | CISPA: Who’s For It And Who’s Against It | What if all of your online communication could be monitored and shared without a warrant? That’s wha... | readwrite.... |
| 21.02.2013 | Shea Frederick: AOL/Ad.com developer named OpenGov Champion ... | Civic hacker and AOL/Ad.com developer Shea Frederick is the Sunlight Foundation‘s latest OpenGov Cha... | technical.... |
| 16.01.2013 | Google.org Donates A Total Of $3.7M To Spark Civic Innovatio... | Today, Google.org’s VP, Matthew Stepka, announced that the non-profit arm of Google is going to be g... | techcrunch... |
| 16.01.2013 | Google.org donates $3.7M to support civic-minded technologis... | Google.org, the search giant’s philanthropic arm, will make a $3.7 million donation to cultivate civ... | venturebea... |
| 28.08.2012 | The 11 best election apps to keep you in the know | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 27.08.2012 | Ad Hawk: initially developed at Random Hacks of Kindness Phi... | Meet Ad Hawk, or the Little Hackathon Project That Could.
It started at last year’s Random Hacks of... | technical.... |
| 24.08.2012 | The SoundHound for politics, Ad Hawk IDs who’s behind politi... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 16.08.2012 | Four SE Michigan Universities Launch TurboVote | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TurboVote, a voter-assistance star... | xconomy.co... |
| 30.05.2012 | The Internet Never Forgets: Politwoops Saves The Tweets Your... | Once something is on the Internet, it’s typically pretty hard to delete it. Unless somebody retweets... | techcrunch... |
| 24.05.2011 | Fate of Data.gov Revealed; US Gov Almost Completely Drops th... | When the annual budgets for e-government initiatives including Data.gov were slashed by 75% last mon... | readwrite.... |
| 28.04.2011 | Celebrating Open Government: Sunlight Foundation Turns Five | The Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan organization that uses the Internet to promote government tr... | readwrite.... |
| 13.04.2011 | Five Open Questions For Data.gov Before We #SaveTheData | Editor’s note: Guest author Kate Ray is the co-founder of Nerd Collider, a new Q&A website desig... | techcrunch... |
| 12.04.2011 | Data.gov et al. Budget Slashed by 75% | Federal government transparency programs, including data resource directory Data.gov, face across-th... | readwrite.... |
| 01.04.2011 | Can We Use Public Data to Save the Economy? | Yesterday we reported that Data.gov and several other Web-based public data outlets may be closed as... | readwrite.... |
| 31.03.2011 | Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut | Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a number of ambitious websites, most notabl... | readwrite.... |
| 24.01.2011 | OpenGovernment: Government Data with a Social Media Twist | The idea of “open government” got a boost last week with the launch of OpenGovernment.org, a joint p... | readwrite.... |
| 18.11.2010 | Michael Robertson Facing Resistance To New Gov't Transparenc... | Over the last few years, there have been a number of important efforts to increase transparency, ope... | techdirt.c... |
| 21.09.2010 | Omidyar Network promises $55M in transparency and mobile inv... | Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (pictured)... | venturebea... |
| 29.06.2010 | Net Neutrality Opponents Outspending Proponents More Than 4 ... | Companies opposed to Network Neutrality spent more than 4 times as much money on lobbying last quart... | readwrite.... |
| 23.06.2010 | Next Supreme Court Nominee’s Emails Now Searchable Gmail Sty... | Historical records are hard to look through casually. One solution is being explored in the case of ... | readwrite.... |
| 21.06.2010 | Telco Industry Is Prepared For Telco Reform: It Has Hundreds... | Want to see how regulatory capture works in action? Congress is apparently gearing up to start the m... | techdirt.c... |
| 16.04.2010 | Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka on bringing open go... | If you talk to someone involved in government budget negotiations — from small towns to the federal ... | technical.... |
| 13.01.2010 | Sunlight launches real-time Congress app | Sunlight Foundation develops elegant iPhone app for tracking legislative goings-on
The Sunlight Fou... | vator.tv/n... |
| 07.01.2010 | New Lobbying Organization Tries To Skirt The Rules So It's N... | The term “lobbyist” has certainly become a dirty word in many circles — for a very valid reason in m... | techdirt.c... |
| 25.08.2009 | Wikipedia’s Parent Org Gets $2 Million Grant From eBay Found... | The Omidyar Network, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic and investment organization, announ... | readwrite.... |
| 16.07.2009 | Data.gov to Face a Challenger From Sunlight Labs | Data.gov, the US federal government’s new catalog of sets of public data for outside developers to m... | readwrite.... |
| 25.06.2009 | Recovery.gov’s Data Transparency Called “Significant Failure... | The US Office of Management and Budget issued new reporting guidelines this week for recipients of t... | readwrite.... |
| 12.06.2009 | What Can You Do With Government Data? Bust Politicians, That... | Public data from the government – is it an opportunity for innovation and essential accountability o... | readwrite.... |
| 09.06.2009 | CorpWatch Makes SEC Data Accessible with an API and the Croc... | With backing from the Sunlight Founation, non-profit CorpWatch launched CrocTail yesterday, an appli... | readwrite.... |
| 21.05.2009 | Data.gov: Another Obama site gets off to an underwhelming st... | After checking out the Obama administration’s newly-launched Data.gov website, I’ve come away with a... | venturebea... |
| 05.05.2009 | US Senate Votes Now Available in XML – Bring on The Mashups!... | Today is an important day in the history of politics and technology – the US Senate voting record is... | readwrite.... |
| 28.04.2009 | Thanks for the public data, Google — Please, sir, can I have... | Google just launched an awesome new tool that allows you to chart public data, starting with unemplo... | venturebea... |
| 27.04.2009 | Congressional Rep. Webcasts Hearing With Supreme Court Justi... | After a bit of a (very public) back and forth, a district court in the high-profile Tenenbaum case w... | techdirt.c... |
| 25.04.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: State of the Smartphone, Google Me, Oprah on ... | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we loo... | readwrite.... |
