GovFresh - Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people » CSPAN http://govfresh.com Open Air Government Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:50 +0000 en hourly 1 Gov 2.0 guide to Sunlight Foundation http://govfresh.com/2010/01/gov-2-0-guide-to-sunlight-foundation/ http://govfresh.com/2010/01/gov-2-0-guide-to-sunlight-foundation/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:30:42 +0000 Luke Fretwell http://govfresh.com/?p=4071 Sunlight Foundation is a Washington, DC-based 501c(3) non-profit organization founded in 2006 to focus on "making government transparent and accountable." Its name comes from a quote by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." Sunlight was co-founded by Michael Klein and Ellen Miller. Miller serves as its executive director.]]> Sunlight Foundation is a Washington, DC-based 501c(3) non-profit organization founded in 2006 to focus on “making government transparent and accountable.” Its name comes from a quote by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

Sunlight was co-founded by Michael Klein and Ellen Miller. Miller serves as its executive director.

Ellen Miller GovFreshTV interview:

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Ellen Miller Web 2.0 Expo interview with Tim O’Reilly:

Projects

  • OpenCongress.org: Brings together official government data with news and blog coverage, social networking, public participation tools, and more. Free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement.
  • Foreign Lobbying: Foreign Lobbyist Influence Tracker, a joint project of ProPublica and Sunlight, digitizes information that representatives of foreign governments, political parties and government-controlled entities must disclose to the U.S. Justice Department when they seek to influence U.S. policy.
  • Congrelate: Lets users view, sort, filter and share information about members of Congress and their districts.
  • Transparency Corps: Lets anyone, anywhere have a positive impact on making our government more transparent by aggregating small actions that require human intelligence but not specialized political knowledge.
  • Party Time: Documents the Congressional fundraising circuit.
  • Transparency Jobs: Features jobs from both the US Federal Government and non-government organizations.
  • LouisDB: The Library Of Unified Information Sources, an effort, to paraphrase Justice Louis Brandeis, to illuminate the workings of the federal government.

Sunlight Labs

Sunlight Foundation also includes Sunlight Labs, a “community of open source developers and designers dedicated to opening up our government to make it more transparent, accountable and responsible.” Sunlight Labs has an online community and a Google Group. Clay Johnson is its director.

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It's such an important time with respect to communications. Our communications infrastructure is increasingly essential to the daily lives of every American. It's how we communicate with each other. It's how we work in our businesses. It's how we participate in our government. It's how we create jobs and contribute to economic growth. I see our communications infrastructure as our platform for innovation and opportunity for the 21st century, and that's what really drives what we're trying to accomplish at the FCC of course, because the FCC is the federal agency that has to deal with this landscape. At the highest level our goals are, one, to promote investment throughout the communications eco-system, two, to promote innovation and thereby promote global competitiveness of the United States, three, to promote competition because that's how we'll get the most innovation and investment, and four, to protect and empower consumers.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski discusses universal broadband, spectrum policy, net neutrality, indecency and media ownership rules on CSPAN’s ‘The Communicators.’

Quotable:

It’s such an important time with respect to communications. Our communications infrastructure is increasingly essential to the daily lives of every American. It’s how we communicate with each other. It’s how we work in our businesses. It’s how we participate in our government. It’s how we create jobs and contribute to economic growth. I see our communications infrastructure as our platform for innovation and opportunity for the 21st century, and that’s what really drives what we’re trying to accomplish at the FCC of course, because the FCC is the federal agency that has to deal with this landscape. At the highest level our goals are, one, to promote investment throughout the communications eco-system, two, to promote innovation and thereby promote global competitiveness of the United States, three, to promote competition because that’s how we’ll get the most innovation and investment, and four, to protect and empower consumers.

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