Sunshine Week

I saw on EFF’s Deep Links Blog that this week is sunshine week.

According to the Sunshine Week site:

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. [...]Sunshine Week is about the public’s right to know what its government is doing, and why. Sunshine Week seeks to enlighten and empower people to play an active role in their government at all levels, and to give them access to information that makes their lives better and their communities stronger.

A laudable goal and one that is top of mind after hearing David Robinson’s brief presentation at USACM’s recent gathering on Civics in the Cloud. It also coincides with the formal launch of Change Congress, Professor Lessig’s new political initiative to address the corrupting influence of lobbyist money in Congress.

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