With so much focus on information-based transparency, Sunshine Week is a reminder that many forms of public access to government information are good for democracy.

Data.gov, the public catalog of diverse, high value, machine readable US government datasets is perhaps the best current example of information-based transparency. Recovery.gov has a similar transparency goal, but a different approach. It focuses on one topic, accounting for $787 billion in stimulus funding, by presenting summary level analysis of thousands of quarterly reports from the organizations that received funding.
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