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Real Time Congress iPhone App. Open States. OpenCongress - 112th Congress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress. Scout. Sunlight Foundation Projects. Churnalism US is a web tool and browser extension to let you know when news articles may have similarities with press releases and other sources. Visit project Political Ad Sleuth is an opportunity for local volunteers to help us make a national, online database of TV stations’ public ad files. This paperwork, which every broadcaster keeps but doesn’t post online, contains important information about who is buying airtime for political ads. Visit project Follow the Unlimited Money, a product of the Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group, is a searchable database tracking organizations that are paying for ads and other forms of political communication.

This project is now integrated into Influence Explorer. Visit project Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker digitizes information that representatives of foreign governments, political parties and government-controlled entities must disclose to the U.S. Justice Department when they seek to influence U.S. policy. Sunlight Foundation. Les dossiers les plus discutés à l'Assemblée nationale - NosDéputés. The Law Factory / La Fabrique de la Loi | Are MPs making the law?                     Les parlementaires font-ils la loi ? Persuasive interfaces in open data | Manufactura Independente. Interface? An interface is whatever entity that sits between you and what you want (data, information, completion of a task, etc).

A good analogy is to think of your local tax office, which you have to visit sometimes to take care of various kinds of business. Your goal is to get that business taken care of, and you have to deal with an interface made of various desks, forms and clerks in order to get what you want. When a certain task, such as filing your taxes, is an obligation, you’ll be more willing to go through and overcome the interface. An interface is seldom neutral: it can be a great tool to empower you, providing the pathways for you to reach all you need, or it can be a means to restrict and condition your actions. On the other hand, are about giving you a straightforward path towards what you want – but also provide you with .

Xkcd: The Problem with Wikipedia Care about typography, layout and general design principles Think before you display Think before you visualize. Law Is Code. Agora Portal. Constitution nationale d'origine citoyenne - Notre plan C : une Constitution Citoyenne.