[okfn-br] Fwd: Sunlight Newsletter: GLOW, Halloween, Congress for iPhone, and more!

Quinta Outubro 9 20:16:07 UTC 2014

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From: Ellen Miller <emiller em sunlightfoundation.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Sunlight Newsletter: GLOW, Halloween, Congress for iPhone, and
more!
To: carolina.rossini em gmail.com

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Global Legislative Openness Week <#148f67f2ba27fbad_section-1>

Time to be done with DUNS <#148f67f2ba27fbad_section-2>

Congress update for iPhone <#148f67f2ba27fbad_section-3>

Political ads embrace Halloween <#148f67f2ba27fbad_section-4>

Sunlight's annual Open House! <#148f67f2ba27fbad_section-5>
                Global Legislative Openness Week
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*As a result of our experience building and maintaining Open States*, in
2013 we gave every state legislature a grade
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RXhr768XChP9Aq1fiViroBCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
based on their transparency. Now, in support of Global Legislative Openness
Week
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sLzZlB2y7PPFwHXSoK4CDBCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>,
we sent a letter
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zr6EdRWwNh2e6KacvlB95xCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
to every state legislature in the U.S. and joined with parliamentary
monitoring organizations (PMOs) from around the world in writing a joint
letter
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to national legislatures calling for
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2zv9y0AV%2B%2F%2F%2Fz2WeuFrSqRCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
increased legislative transparency, more parliamentary open data and
outlining the importance of partnerships to strengthen democracy. You can
follow along as we track these initiatives on the public document
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sbGidV6pTWm0rht60c5ULhCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
we built to collect success stories for the global legislative transparency
community.
    Time to be done with DUNS
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*On Sept. 9, the Washington Post reported
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that Recovery.gov, the website that provides oversight for federally
distributed funds
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ikfFZ7S62hNPh0OqeRdt%2FhCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>,
would soon be losing a significant amount of data*. Why? Because the
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board which operates the site can’t
afford to renew
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1KJ2WeMHUgyjCccuQNj2KBCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
its yearly $1.5 million dollar license with Duns & Bradstreet
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the only firm authorized to assign ID numbers to entities doing business
with the federal government. In 2012, the General Services Administration
expressed
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its concern with this lack of competition and has been looking into
alternatives. Meanwhile, there are a number
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of efforts
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to change this system, and the requirements under the DATA Act
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RDhsaHT%2FxNRKlqd2xK57RBCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
provide an opportunity for this change. At a town hall discussion hosted by
the Treasury Department, we urged
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the federal government to “dump DUNS
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and find a more open and transparent way of tracking the entities with
which it does business. We previously explained the problems associated
with highly restrictive identifying systems in our 6 Degrees of Corporations
<http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=onjfQ7YxyR37DUV7CEGAqBCZNbRC%2Fhk%2B>
analysis, but the result of this monopoly is painfully obvious
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with the loss of data on Recovery.gov.
    Congress update for iPhone
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*Earlier this year we gave Congress publicly available email addresses
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and added them to our OpenCongress
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tool*. Well, now we’ve updated
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our Congress app for the iPhone so you can email your members of Congress
on the go. Just visit the profile page for your representative or senators,
hit email and complete a one-time only set up process. Once your email
address is registered, you can send messages without hassle or delay
straight from your iPhone.
    Political ads embrace the spirit of Halloween
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*With the primaries over and the general election less than a month away,
political advertising is picking up*, and advertisers seem to be getting
into the spirit of Halloween. Outside spenders are pulling out their super
PAC costumes
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to obscure their donors' identity and the ads themselves are focusing on
scare
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tactics
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Outside spending has topped a frightening $380 million and most of that —
$270 million — paid for negative ads. With Election Day looming, we decided
to put together a tutorial
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on how to use our Real-Time Federal Campaign Finance tracker
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so that you can uncover the scariest spending yourself… if you dare!
    Sunlight's annual Open House is this month!
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*It’s one of our favorite traditions:* Each year at the end of October,
after the leaves have turned and the scorching summer heat has given way to
the cooler fall, we open up our doors and welcome the community to join us
for a good, old-fashioned shindig here at Sunlight headquarters. Oh, and we
also tend to do this right around Halloween, which gives us a great excuse
to decorate the heck out of the place (so to speak). If you’re in the D.C.
area come hang out with us! The Open House will be Oct. 30 at Sunlight HQ,
and you can RSVP here
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.
    Transparency in the News
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*There’s no sunlight in the shadows *
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My (Ellen) response to Jason Grumet’s assertion that increased transparency
is hindering progress (Sunlight Foundation, Oct. 3, 2014).

*Civic wants, civic needs, civic tech*
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Sunlight’s Emily Shaw examines what problems civic tech is solving, who
it’s benefiting, and how it’s approaching these problems (Sunlight
Foundation, Sept. 29, 2014).

*A Thousand-Dollar Bill*
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The Slate explains why the Supreme Court is wrong about the influence you
can buy with less than $5,200 (Slate, Sept. 15, 2014).
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 Thank You!
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In closing, we want to extend a special thanks to Omidyar Network for its
generous multi-year matching grant and to our co-founder Mike Klein for his
sustained support. We also want to thank the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation, Google.org, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Laura and
John Arnold Foundation, Global Integrity, Rita Allen Foundation, Ford
Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Kaphan Foundation, Stanton Foundation
and so many others who make our work possible each day (to see our entire
list of donors visit the Sunlight Foundation site
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or to join their ranks
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).

*Ellen Miller*
*Co-Founder*

*Chris Gates*
*President*
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to all.
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