Access to transportation schedules has been a hot topic lately. Most recently, iPhone developer Chris Schoenfeld has  come in conflict with the MTA over schedule data. Chris wrote an app that uses schedules for Metro-North, and the MTA wants him to pay royalties for his use of the data from both past and future sales of his Read more…

Harvard fellow Gene Koo wrote a thought-provoking post last week about how games can be used to bolster civic engagement and democratic participation. He noted two general ways they can be used towards these ends: games for crowdsourcing and games to determine what things people value and how they value them (value discernment). Games for Read more…

I spent last weekend and the beginning of this week at my first ever PyCon. And while the whole experience was good, there was one part that stood head and shoulders above the rest: The open government code sprint hosted by Sunlight Labs, a two-day intensive coding session aimed at opening up government data. But Read more…