A Note from the Sunlight Foundation’s Board Chair : Sunlight Foundation

"About fifteen years ago, in November 2005, Ellen Miller and I created the Sunlight Foundation in an effort to demonstrate that the then emerging tools of computer technology could have a positive impact on citizen understanding and oversight of government and the political spheres, using the internet and API’s we would develop and employ to implement Louis Brandeis’ mantra “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants, electric light the best policeman.”  Over the years that followed, the staff and supporters of the Sunlight Foundation led the way in demonstrating those possibilities, facilitating many improvements in oversight, transparency and citizen participation. ...Over the past months, virtually all of the activities and staff of Sunlight have been transferred to other engaged institutions, or closed.  What remains, Sunlight’s name, IP and it’s records have been transferred to the Internet Archive and to the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, one of the stellar organizations continuing to assess and address the more important societal implications of information technology .   With appreciation for all any of you have contributed to this and related efforts, we therefore say thank you, good bye and good luck."