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Revision as of 20:17, November 14, 2012
This page is part of the Transparency Hub project.
Add what you know.
Welcome to the Transparency Hub on the OpenCongress wiki. This project is loosely coordinated by John Wonderlich, Daniel Schuman, Laurenellen McCann, and Matt Rumsey 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.
Contents |
Websites, tools, and apps for engaging and informing citizens
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
- House Committee "Summary of Activity" Reports
- Senate Committee "Legislative Activity" Reports
Legislative Support Agencies
- The Constitution Annotated
- Ideas for improving THOMAS/ Congress.gov/ LIS
- Public Availability of Congressional Research Service Reports
- Legislative Support Agencies' Annual 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
- 113th 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
- Disclose Act 2012
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
- Drone Strikes
- Annual Salary Report for White House Officials
- Agency information audits and indexes
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
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
- STOCK Act
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
- Corporate Accountability
Campaigns
Presidential Election Tracking
Foreign Money in U.S. Elections
International Resources
- [1]Transparency Camp International 2011 Notes
- [2]UK Data Resources
- UK Data Resources
- International Organizations and Resources
- Parliamentary Openness
- Legislative Apps
- International Campaign Finance Lit Review
Open Government Partnership
State and Local Resources
- State Lobbying Registration Requirements
- State Lobbyist Disclosure Requirements
- State Public Records Laws
- State Transparency Bills
- State Regulations Online
- City Level Data Projects
- DC.gov portal
Click on a state below for articles about its transparency laws, regulations and practices. These articles focus more on campaign contributions, lobbying and the electronic release of information.
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
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
