David James talks about Government transparency and the work of Sunlight Labs
In my latest podcast I talk with David James of Sunlight Labs, part of the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, DC.
We discuss the Labs’ work to increase Government transparency by making public sector data such as that disseminated via Data.gov more useful.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- Amazon Public Data Sets
- Apps for America 2
- Capitol Words
- Data.gov
- e-Democracy Camp
- Government 2.0 Camp
- Jim Hendler and Li Ding podcast, talking about conversion of Data.gov resources to RDF
- Vivek Kundra
- Lexis Nexis
- Mapumental video
- MySociety
- National Data Catalog
- OpenCongress
- OpenSecrets.org
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Principles of Open Government Data
- PublicMarkup.org
- Read the Bill
- Recovery.gov
- resource.org
- Sunlight API
- Sunlight Foundation
- Sunlight Labs
- Sunlight Labs Google Group
- Transparency Camp
- Westlaw
This conversation was recorded on Friday 14 August, 2009.
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