The Apps for America 2 contest from Sunlight Labs is a Sunlight Foundation
project focused on allowing people to access and scrutinize government
data. Developers were given the opportunity to submit applications
using open source development tools and government data. Now you get to
vote for one of three finalists (free registration required). Voting is open through Monday. The three finalists include:
This We Know, which allows you to access data about any community, such as number of unemployed and ethnicity
govpulse, which allows you to access to Federal Register, an official federal government publication listing all requests for proposals
DataMasher,
a "toy box" application that lets you perform any kind of math (e.g.
Median Monthly Mortgage Costs divided by Median Household Income) on
government data
