Sunlight Labs

This website allows one to stay informed on what their Representative and Senators are up to.

Eureka is a web-based application that generates inventions. It is essentially a frontend for a Markov processor that analyzes US patent application abstracts and spits out random text based on word frequencies of the source material.

Data.gov provides weekly XML files of patent application bibliographic data. Bundled with Eureka ...

CDT is actively hiring a web programmer to help complete this exciting social web project.

To help ensure that consumers have efficient and effective means of voicing and publicizing their online privacy concerns, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined with the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic ...

OpenGov will aggregate and organize legislation and legislative context at the local, state, and federal levels. Legislative context - in this instance - refers to newspaper articles, bill summaries/briefs, legislative research, vetted blogs, and trusted multimedia sources that will provide information on the impacts of the legislation. Users will also have ...

OpenMinneapolis.org will open municipal government, encourage clean and information-based elections, track issues and inspire community engagement and public participation in Minneapolis.

The rise of obesity rates worldwide mandates that population-wide lifestyle changes occur. Epidemiologic research points to food access, a spatial construct, as a major arena for change. The problem is that most policymakers are unaware of the link between food deserts and obesity. This project presents an integrated solution to ...

I'm Asher Bond and I just wanted to invite people from Sunlight to collaborate with me on this project. I already started one on eclipse labs, but maybe there's a good way to link up here. The goal is to provide tools not-for-profit organizations of all types to ...