A Conversation with Ellen Mil
summary
Sunlight Foundation advocates that public means online and pushes real time, primary government data using practical tools not platitudes. Projects include OpenCongress.org for searchable legislation, Sunlight Labs hackathons and a planned data commons to join federal and state campaign and lobbying records. A $320k nonprofit database prompts a $12M government copy and a $600k buyout (about 20:1 leverage). Examples claim recovery.gov development budgets up to $86M, showing why cheaper external prototypes matter.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:39Sunlight Foundation
- 1:06Principles
- 2:18Realtime Availability
- 2:43Accountability
- 3:24Netta
- 4:44The Slider Foundation
- 5:29Open Congress
- 6:57Sunlight Tools
- 8:52Clay
- 9:21Redesigning governments
- 9:41Adoption
- 10:07hunch
- 11:11People of goodwill
- 11:31The second layer of technologists
- 12:13What was your original budget
- 12:26How much does it cost to get things done
- 14:15The federal governments database
- 14:29Huge Opportunity
- 15:16Nancy Pelosi
- 16:51John Culberson
- 17:39Transparency
- 18:12Next for Sunlight
- 18:25Data Commons
- 20:15Less government
- 20:44Transpartisan transparency
- 21:33Dual business contributor
- 21:45How do I make money
- 24:24Thank you
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