The non-profit Sunlight Foundation, whose mission is to help others use the Internet to make information about the US government more accessible (and we've covered previously), recently released a very enlightening visualization of campaign contributions from 1990-2008, broken down by industry sectors and party lines.
Governments around the world are still lagging at opening data and even less are offering data via APIs, accessible in machine-readable format, according to a new annual index released by Open Knowledge Foundation today.