OpenIllinois: An Information System for Transparency in Illinois State Electoral Finances
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Abstract
Governments have pursued political transparency through open data availability; however, even with these barriers addressed most people cannot make use of raw data. To address this issue we designed and created a platform that does data analytics in the realm of political campaign contributions in Illinois. Through this work, we will show that we should be developing tools to enable not just open data, but rather open information
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dg.o 2022: The 23st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
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