Applications of government transparency

The following sites were used in Conor Kenny's presentation on applications of government transparency at the Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency on May 15, 2009 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.

Collected data & research

 * The National Weather Service (Weather.gov)
 * The Weather Channel / Weather.com
 * AccuWeather.com

Info on politics & policymaking

 * Sunlight Foundation
 * Center for Responsive Politics / OpenSecrets.org
 * Sunlight Foundation's Party Time
 * OpenCongress.org - a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation
 * MAPLight.org - "Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection"
 * SubsidyScope


 * National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005 on OpenCongress.org
 * Rick Santorum's OpenCongress wiki profile on the weather bill.
 * Robert P. King, "Feds' weather information could go dark," Palm Beach Post, April 21, 2005.
 * Chris Potter, "Top 20 reasons to vote against Rick Santorum," Pittsburgh City Paper, Oct. 26, 2006.

Info on gov. services & operations

 * Chicago crime data (formerly chicagocrime.org) on EveryBlock
 * DC police department's crime map.
 * EDGAR at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 * Carl Malamud's bio at Wikipedia
 * Carl Malamud's Public.Resource.org (Carl's Twitter feed.)
 * Carl Malamud's Campaign for the Public Printer of the United States (more).
 * New York Times article on Carl's totally punk rock effort to make law libraries available online.

The collaboration model

 * Peer-to-Patent Project of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
 * Future of Melbourne wiki project
 * Mark Elliott - Future of Melbourne's coordinator. (Mark's Twitter feed.)

The "Get Satisfaction" Model

 * Get Satisfaction
 * Fix My Street by the awesome people at UK's MySociety.org.
 * MySociety's HearFromYourMP, another "Get Satisfaction" model project.
 * MySociety's No. 10 Petitions, built for 10 Downing Street, now available to be re-branded and re-purposed for the city council level.
 * MySociety's WriteToThem.

Adopting outside models

 * FedSpending.org
 * USASpending.gov
 * Apps For Democracy.

FIN
Conor Kenny
 * Twitter.com/ConorKenny
 * [mailto:ckenny@conorkenny.net ckenny@conorkenny.net]