The Online Magazine for Government and Politics Around the World.

Government In The Lab was an online magazine that covered the Government 2.0 movement, open-data programs, civic technology experiments, and the politics that shaped them — from 2010-2013.

The magazine reported across eight beats: open data, open government, Government 2.0, civic technology, politics, international affairs, the Sunlight Foundation's daily reporting, and social media in government. Articles were filed from contributors in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Spain, Russia, and across Africa, Asia, and Latin America — often in their original languages.

This site preserves the magazine's URL structure and editorial framing so the substantial inbound link record from academic citations, government wikis, news pingbacks, and the broader open-government community continues to resolve to a real page rather than a 404. Each article page carries an editorial summary and several paragraphs of honest topical context — what the article's subject looked like in the 2010–2013 era, the organisations and people involved, and where the story went next. The original article copy is not reconstructed.

For a longer-form take on the era this archive covers — the Government 2.0 movement, the Open Government Partnership's launch, the Arab Spring intersection with open-government work, the post-Citizens-United campaign-finance reset — see About the Era.

For corrections to a summary or to flag a missing article, email editor@govinthelab.com.