This article reviews many online sources for government information and documents. The article reviews resources providing information on the United States federal government as well to state and local governments. The reviewer also discusses resources providing various kinds of statistics, as well as international government information.

Are you interested in improving civic culture and knowledge with apps? If so, you will be delighted to learn about the Open City site. The Open City folks are a group of programmers, citizen activists, and policy types that create apps with open data in order "to improve transparency and understanding of our government." Chicagoans can stop by the Merchandise Mart to meet up and work with Open...