Links to more open government sites

  • Hello, Congress: Each member of Congress gets their own page with the priorities of their consituents, based on White House 2.
  • Our Open Government List: Submit your ideas for President Obama's Open Government Directive, to promote "transparency, participation, and collaboration."
  • GovFresh: a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts all in one place.
  • LittleSis: "an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited and maintained by people like you."
  • Stimulus Watch: Help the Obama administration invest stimulus money wisely.
  • MAPLight.org: "illuminating the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways."
  • USAspending.gov: Details on federal government contracts
  • watchdog.net: Beautifully organized data on politics -- votes, lobbying records, campaign finance reports, etc.
  • Metagovernment: an early stage project for open source governance.
Tracking Congress:
  • OpenCongress: Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives
  • GovTrack.us: Feeds for just about everything Congress does
  • Open CRS: Congressional Research Reports
  • Read The Bill: "Congress should change its rules to require non-emergency legislation and conference reports be posted on the internet for 72 hours before debate begins."
Non-Profit Organizations Supporting Open Government:
  • Sunlight Foundation: "Underlying all of Sunlight’s efforts is a fundamental belief that increased transparency will improve the conduct of Congress itself and the public’s confidence in government."
  • Change Congress: "It’s not enough to push politicians to stay out of the system of corruption—we have to reform the system itself. That’s why we support a hybrid of small-dollar donations and public financing, to keep big money out of politics."
White House 2 is a multi-partisan network of 10550 citizens imagining how the White House might work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people over the internet. It's free and all U.S. citizens can join.

We're setting priorities, collaborating on policy, and creating a massive database of 2867 talking points covering all sides of every important issue facing our country. Watch the video intro.

Getting involved is easy and fun. Just join and start setting your priorities, like a todo list. The more people who endorse a priority, the higher it rises in the charts. The more people who join the network, the more clout we will have with the President and the media.