The Most Wanted Federal Government Documents

You have until March 9 to tell Show Us the Data which federal government documents you hunger for the most:

Is the federal government putting the information you need online? Are there categories of unclassified documents or data that you know exist–on paper or in government computers and databases–that would be of value to the public if posted and regularly updated on an agency's Web site? If so, then help Open The Government and the Center for Democracy and Technology identify the 10 Most Wanted Government Documents, Reports or Data Sets that should be available on the Web.

The site is a project of the Sunlight Foundation, OpenTheGovernment.org and the Center for Democracy and Technology. They “hope to encourage open government and citizen participation in democracy through full disclosure of unclassified government documents in open, interoperable formats.”

This is the third Most Wanted survey, and previous projects (in 1999 and 2004) were highly successful both in bringing attention to the issue, as well as encouraging federal entities to put information online. Many of the documents in previous Most Wanted surveys have been ‘captured’ and are now available online.