LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration

OpenKnesset ("Knesset" is the Israeli Parliament) is a project of the Workshop of Public Knowledge (הסדנא לידע ציבורי), which is a bunch of programmers who decided it would be cool to provide some information in a much more accessible way. AFAIK, they only store their code in git, and not the data. See

https://github.com/hasadna/

This is far from being the only (or even the first) one around. See e.g.:

http://www.opencongress.org/about/
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/about (UK)

(That is not to say that the Workshop's projects are not cool and highly useful here)