ShowUsTheData.com
Submitted by blakeley on Wed, 2009-02-11 09:37.
The Sunlight Foundation, Open The Government and the Center for Democracy and Technology have done it again. They've created yet another cool initiative called Show Us the Data for you to "identify the 10 Most Wanted Government Documents, Reports or Data Sets that should be available on the Web"!
Is the federal government putting the information you need online? Are there categories of unclassified documents or data that you know exist–on paper or in government computers and databases–that would be of value to the public if posted and regularly updated on an agency's Web site? If so, then help Open The Government and the Center for Democracy and Technology identify the 10 Most Wanted Government Documents, Reports or Data Sets that should be available on the Web. Use this site to tell us what data you want and who has it, (“Request a Document”) or add your vote (up to three times) to the suggestions others have made.
The deadline to submit documents and vote is March 9, 2009
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Vote for CRS Reports @ Showusthedata.com
Oh, and CRS Reports is included and has gotten the most votes so far, as of 2/11/09 11:42 am CT, so vote for it!!
Vote for PACER!
http://showusthedata.org/doc/24/
My Three Votes - Your Turn
This is a great idea! Since we get three votes each, here is what I settled on:
Now it's your turn to vote. You don't need to tell us how you voted, but vote. It looks like the top vote getter (CRS Reports) only has 124 votes. If every FGI reader were to cast a vote, that figure would be over a 1,000. So go out and vote ok? Because I know you want CRS reports if you're reading this.
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
vote early and often
and since the 3 votes is per IP address, you can vote every time you get on a different network ;-)
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