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Sunshine Review was an American nonprofit organization that advocated for increased government transparency. Sunshine Review was a website prior to becoming its own nonprofit organization. The wiki-based website was launched in July 2008 as a project of the Sam Adams Alliance.〔(Sunshine Review, Press Room )〕 In 2010, Sunshine Review separated from the Sam Adams Alliance and launched its own organization with a mission of educating the public about proactive disclosure of government data and other open government initiatives. Sunshine Review addressed several areas of transparency, including state spending, state sunshine laws, and rating local government websites on transparency.〔(Sunshine Review )〕 Sunshine Review worked with the National Taxpayers Union〔(Show Me The Spending )〕 to develop information on state spending, and with the Lucy Burns Institute which runs the WikiFOIA project.〔(WikiFOIA )〕 Sunshine Review developed a ten-point transparency checklist to evaluate if government websites proactively and voluntarily disclose information to the public and media.〔(''Sunshine Review'', Affirmative disclosure )〕 On July 9th, 2013, Sunshine Review was acquired by the Lucy Burns Institute and merged into Ballotpedia.〔http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Portal:Sunshine_Review〕 ==Website evaluations== In March 2010, the organization reported that it had evaluated over 5,000 government websites, including 3,140 counties, 805 cities, and 1,560 school districts.〔(''Sedona Times'', Arizona “Sunny Award” Winners, March 10, 2010 )〕 In March 2010, Sunshine Review launched the Sunny Awards just prior to Sunshine Week to recognize the 39 local government websites that had score an A on their checklist.〔(''Reason Hit & Run'', Top Government Websites for Transparency, March 10, 2010 )〕 By the time of the 2011 Sunny Awards, those who qualified had more than doubled, with the organization handing out 112 awards to state and local government websites.〔(''Sunshine Review'', Sunny Awards recognize state, local governments with perfect transparency scores, March 10, 2011 )〕〔(''WIBC 93.1 FM'', State Upgrading Transparency Website, March 14, 2011 )〕 In 2012 the number of awards had increased yet again, with the organization handing out 214 awards to state government and other localities.〔(''Sunshine Review'', 2012 Sunny Awards, March 8, 2012 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunshine Review」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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