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Twitter Bio:: Working to change the relationship between citizens and their government with Internet technology.
Location:: Washington, DC
Website:: http://sunlightfoundation.com/

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Sunlight and Allies to Department of Labor: No Website Scrubbing

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The following letter was just sent to the Department of Labor, on behalf of Sunlight and a number of our allies, requesting that the DOL re-post materials online that they removed when they abandoned proposed regulations regarding child labor in agriculture. As the letter says, no major administration decision should be accompanied by related materials' disappearance from public view.

cc: Cass R. Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Secretary Hilda Solis, U.S. Department of Labor Gabriela Lemus, Director, Office of Public Engagement, U.S. Department of Labor

The undersigned organizations dedicated

Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge?

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Four years ago, President Obama promised more transparency in government. We take a look at how he did on keeping his promise and what to expect during his second term. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)After eight years of tightened access to government records under the Bush administration, open-government advocates were hopeful when Barack Obama promised greater transparency."It's a mixed bag," said Patrice McDermott, executive director of OpenTheGovernment.org, a consortium of right-to-know groups. "I think they've made progress, but a whole lot more remains to be done."The Obama administration set the bar high. In his first inaugural address, Obama

Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline?

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Even as government transparency initiatives and portals like data.gov grow rapidly, the federal government is ending valuable and long-standing data publications.

One example is the Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR), an annual federal spending report created by the Census Bureau and de-funded in fiscal year 2012. Since 1983, the Census Bureau collected spending information from the back-end systems that track federal awards, contracts, and salaries; compiled it into a single format; and summarized

Shaky Foundations of Federal IT

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The White House blog today featured a new post about the "Building Blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government." If these are the building blocks of reinvented government, however, we're on shaky ground.

Most agency CIOs don't know what their agency's major IT holdings are. Really. Decisions determining what data will be released, and how it gets released, are routinely made by individual departments, outside public view, and without review from the federal CIO or CTO, Congress, or the public.

This is a shame, because the

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