Civic Impulse LLC was started by “civic hacker” Joshua Tauberer, who some have called the “grandfather” of the open-data movement for the U.S. Congress and a “data crusader”. Civic Impulse builds tools that foster civic participation and government transparency and works with government staff and nonprofits on improving government data policy.
For more about CI, see Joshua’s homepage and Joshua’s track record.
GovTrack.us, launched in 2004, was the first website to apply the principles of open data and Web 2.0 to the U.S. Congress. It catalyzed the development of a community of like-minded developers and shaped the data-oriented open government movement that we see today. About GovTrack | Press Coverage
GovTrackInsider.com, launched in 2010, is an experiment in online journalism and government transparency.
Planet oGosh! is a aggregator for blogs related to “Open Government Open Source Hacking”. (Like the acronym?)
The New Jersey Gang Survey Viewer is a visualization tool for the New Jersey State Police Street Gang Survey 2007 developed by five volunteers over the course of a weekend in December 2009, as part of the Great American Hackathon.