OpenGovernment

= This page concerns a specific project in the U.S.A.

URL = http://opengovernment.org/

See Open Government for a more detailed treatment of the concept.

Description

"OpenGovernment is an online clearinghouse for open government data, aggregating information on bills in currently in public legislature, profiles for all the members of a given state’s senate and house, a tagged list of legislated issue areas, and campaign contributions listed by source. This is all public information, never before presented through such a clean, user-friendly interface. A project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation, the folks behind Open Congress, the service (which currently serves California, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas and Wisconsin,) is a significant step towards more accessible public data." (http://shareable.net/blog/envisioning-a-shareable-future-at-sxsw)