10 principles for open government information

10 principles for open government information

Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight Foundation

2010

From December 7 to December 8 in 2007, 30 open government advocates met in Sebastopol, California to discuss how government could open up government data for public use, including members of the Sunlight Foundation. Up until that point, United States agencies, governments and cities had made some data available to the public, but usually inconsistently and incompletely, which had whetted the advocates’ appetites for more and better data.