Monthly Archives: January 2011

We’re very excited to announce that OpenGovernment was selected to be one of 8 finalists in the News category at South by Southwest Interactive’s Accelerator contest, March 14-16th in the gem-of-a-town Austin, TX. Looking forward to meeting & trading ideas … Continue reading →

Hi everyone, plenty more press mentions & positive buzz to report. To start off, we’re pleased that OpenGovernment was featured on The Thicket, the blog of the National Council of State Legislature (NCSL), the indispensable umbrella group for state-level legislatures across the country. We think highly of the Thicket & the work that they do, and they’re listed on all state homepages on OG, towards the bottom, under helpful resources about how state government works. Continue reading →

Today’s launch received a nice wave of reactions on the leading micro-blogging service. To highlight a few: Alex Howard of O’Reilly Media (@digiphile); Nick Judd of TechPresident; plus the blog post announcement from Ellen Miller, the Executive Director of our remarkable partners, the Sunlight Foundation; and another by Tom Lee, the Director of Sunlight Labs. Continue reading →

We’re very excited to announce today’s launch of the beta version of our next major project: OpenGovernment.org.

Free & open-source, OpenGovernment is a non-partisan public resource for transparency at any level of government: state, city, local, international, and more. It’s based on OpenCongress.org, the most-visited not-for-profit website in the country for tracking the U.S. Congress, with over a million visits per month and many millions of requests for data served every day. Finally, a version of OpenCongress for state legislatures. Continue reading →