The New York Open Government site
nyopengovernment.com developed by The Office of the New York State Attorney General provides and connects data from several New York State agencies, including data on campaign contributions and expenditures, lobbyist disclosures, government contracts, and registered charities.
In theory, this tool allows people to find entities across these datasets. But we're facing challenges in keeping the site relevant and useful (for example, currently the data on the site is out of date). I'll talk about the current state of the tool and then I'd like to hear from you:
- do/would you use this tool? What for?
- what functionality would you want to see in this tool?
- what datasets are we missing?
- what similar tools could we learn from?
- in what ways can we collaborate on developing and maintaining this tool (e.g. as an open source project)?
If you could use a way to find connections between campaign contributions, contracts and lobbying, or you'd like to help build a tool to find such connections, please join and bring your thoughts to share!
