Project:Transparency Hub

Welcome to the Transparency Hub on the OpenCongress wiki. This project is loosely coordinated by [mailto:jwonderlich@sunlightfoundation.com John Wonderlich], Daniel Schuman, and Melanie Buck at the Sunlight Foundation.

We hope this will serve as an open, collective knowledge base for the transparency community. Know something good? Share it here.

= Federal Government Resources =

Congress

 * House and Senate Rules and Procedures Resources
 * 112th House Rules
 * Publicly Available Ethics Documents: Overview, House, Senate
 * Committee jurisdictions and Sunlight's Suggestions for Committee Website Contents
 * Tracking Committee Website Transparency
 * House Statement of Disbursements and Senate Statement of Receipts and Expenditures
 * Information on Congressional Staff retention data (including salary information)
 * House Web Publications Analysis by Access Point
 * House of Representatives Public Information
 * House Travel Rules
 * New Media projects from Congress
 * Franking and Web Use Restrictions
 * Party Rules Online for Caucus and Conference
 * House Ethics Committee Search Tool
 * Super Congress
 * Services Sunlight Provides Using Congressional Data
 * Congressional steps towards transparency
 * House Committee Hearing Webcasts 2012

Legislative Support Agencies

 * The Constitution Annotated
 * Bulk Access to THOMAS legislative information and other THOMAS ideas
 * Public Availability of Congressional Research Service Reports

Legislation

 * Citizens United Policy Recommendations
 * Earmarks: History, Reform Legislation, and Evasion
 * Transparency Caucus
 * 72 Hour Rule
 * Lobbying reform bills
 * Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports
 * Resources on Senate Holds
 * Resources on Personal Finance Disclosures
 * Resources on Dear Colleague Letters
 * 111th Congress Transparency Bills
 * 112th Congress Transparency Bills
 * Broadcast Advertisement Disclosures Regulations
 * Save the Data Campaign, Spring 2011
 * Bills We're Watching
 * TransparencyBills to be Reintroduced in the 112th
 * Public Legislative Participation
 * Rhetoric around Money Influencing Elections
 * Rhetoric around Senate E-Filing
 * Rhetoric around Earmarks
 * Rhetoric around 72 Hour Rule
 * Rhetoric around 20% Lobbying Loophole

Executive Branch

 * Sources for Ethics Information Generated by the Executive Branch
 * Resources on TARP and Economic Stimulus Lobbying Rules
 * Statements by Independent Agencies on Implementing Financial Regulatory Reforms
 * What is an agency?
 * White House WAVES Visitor Logs
 * Presidential Memo on Regulatory Compliance Data
 * Online Content of the Office of Government Ethics
 * Online Content of the Office of Management and Budget
 * Online Content of the Office of Personnel Management
 * Online Content of the Food and Drug Administration
 * DOJ and FOIA

President Obama's Record

 * Obama Transparency Record
 * Resources and Recommendations on Obama's Transition to the Presidency
 * Obama Campaign Finance Rhetoric

Open Government Directive

 * Background Resources on the Open Government Directive
 * Open Government Directive Deadlines
 * Open Government Directive Implementation Tracking
 * Open Government Directive Plans 2.0

Judicial Branch

 * Supreme Court website suggested updates

Federal Law

 * Current transparency legislation (Last updated May 2009)
 * Republican transparency promises
 * E-Gov Fund
 * Disclosure legislation family tree
 * Disclosure legislation
 * DISCLOSE Act Senate Whip Count
 * Paperwork Reduction Act
 * LDA resources
 * Budget resources
 * Statutes at Large

Other

 * Oil Spill Reforms
 * Unique Corporate Identifiers
 * Lobbying Disclosure Resources
 * Ex Parte Regulations
 * GAO Review of Financial Disclosure Reports
 * Unique Publicly-Available Entity Identifiers Used by the Government
 * Political Intelligence Firm Information
 * Federally Funded Research
 * Profiles of Technologist Political Figures

= Campaigns =

Presidential Election Tracking

 * Presidential Candidate Transparency Rhetoric

Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

 * Foreign Money in U.S. Elections

= International Resources =


 * Provisional International Resources
 * Transparency Camp International 2011 Notes
 * UK Data Resources
 * UK Data ResourcesInternational Data Portals
 * International Campaign Finance Lit Review

Open Government Partnership

 * Open Government Partnership

= State and Local Resources =


 * State Lobbying Disclosure Requirements
 * State Lobbyist Disclosure Forms
 * State Public Records Laws
 * City Level Data Projects
 * DC.gov portal

Click on a state below for articles about it's transparency laws, regulations and practices. These articles focus more on campaign contributions, lobbying and the electronic release of information.

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State-level transparency resources


 * Useful websites for state government transparency
 * The Sunshine Review and Center for Fiscal Accountability websites also have excellent resources on state government transparency, with focuses on spending and appropriations.
 * Directory of transparency-related organizations

DC-area transparency events


 * Upcoming transparency events (Last updated June 2009)

= Toolkit =


 * Open Data Principles and Database Creation Principles
 * Government-citizen collaboration projects and resources
 * Government-sponsored discussions about transparency
 * Technological Government Standards Coordination
 * Applications of government transparency
 * Transparency Evaluation Tools
 * Availability of Government Data


 * Delicious links links to articles covering a variety transparency-related topics (Last updated April 2009)
 * Reports and recommendations for government transparency
 * Asdf
 * Third party websites that transform government data
 * Free Sources of Gov't and Influence Data (And Private Sector Efforts)
 * Stories on Opening up Data from Government
 * The State of FOIA

Journalism and accountability projects

 * Journalism projects
 * Revealing super PAC Dark Money

Impactful uses of government data

 * Impactful uses of government data: Investigations and apps
 * Economic benefits of open data