Sunlight Labs

Basic information on members of Congress, legislator IDs used by various Web sites, and lookups between places and the politicians that represent them to facilitate mashups involving politicians and the various other APIs that are out there.

Local government and civic data source standardization. http://CivicDB.org/

The goal is to create data converters on top of data.gov style catalogs and publish data in standardized format.

This will make it easy for developers to access similar data from anywhere in US / possibly world.

Ex. crime map.

Python library for interacting with the Project Vote Smart API.

The Project Vote Smart API provides detailed information on politicians, including bios, votes, and NPAT responses.

Provide a reference implementation for looking up representatives and candidates all the way down to the local level. Create a standard for local election boards and others to publish this data in a distributed way for others to aggregate. More information at http://ideas.topplabs.org/wiki/Who_is_my_government%3F

The Fifty State project aims to collect legislative data from all 50 state legislatures and make it available in a common, developer-friendly format.

Python wrapper for National Data Catalog API

If we are to build a movement on Open data, every bit needs to be accounted for; meaning available, and accessible in open formats, and for free, with revision control every step of the way. Our datasets, the scrapers that git-commit them, and the widgets that visualize them--as well as ...

Provide a Ruby library that provides easy access to the OpenSecrets.org API. Should be easily integrated in a standard Ruby or Ruby on Rails application. Packaged as a Ruby Gem.

This project aims to collect, present, and make searchable a vast body of Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests and responses gathered by the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum at Yale Law School. The Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum ("MaFIA") is dedicated to preserving the public's right ...

Neighborly connects you with your nearest neighbors online.

Join our online working group from: http://e-democracy.org/Neighborly

The basic outline:

Enter your name and address. See yourself and neighboring users on a map. Share and discuss local information and events (default to the nearest 100 users) and share information ...