Why did the Sunlight Foundation create the Sunlight Labs?
We live in an amazing time, when the evolution of the Web is enabling the creation of versatile new services, tools, and other software at a rapid pace, and the highly networked world of Web sites and blogs is making it possible to spread information and capacities incredibly quickly. That understanding led Sunlight to create the Sunlight Labs, our flagship in-house development team of programmers, designers and analysts. This crack team, who together have decades of Web experience, works closely with the Foundation’s own investigative research staff as well as with a number of major grantees on data sharing, buzz-generating mashups and hands-on technical support. Sunlight Labs uses its experience and growing library of open source code to move the Sunlight Foundation and its grantees into a leadership role demonstrating how the Web can enable meaningful citizen participation and create avenues for renewed trust between citizens and their elected officials. What kind of projects has Su
