[open-government] Study and DataViz on lobbying at National Assembly in France

Thu Mar 31 16:11:14 BST 2011

For more information, attached is the press communique in english that
TI France sent away.

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
Regards Citoyens

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 16:47, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We've been wanting to send this e-mail earlier but I guess it's never
> too late to show an #OpenData transparency application! :)
> http://www.regardscitoyens.org/transparence-france/etude-lobbying/
>
> Our latest project led in collaboration with the french section of
> Transprency International concerns influence interests within France's
> National Assembly.
> The subject is very taboo in France and there is not much infiormation
> publicly available apart from an official register of lobbyist
> published on the institution's website. Similar to the EU one, this
> one lacks in quality though since it counts only about a 100
> persons...
>
> Therefore we decided to use the annexes from all parliamentary reports
> and extract from it lists of people auditionned by MP's. We first
> reveal this already lacks transparency since only 38% of the reports
> have such a list.
> To work on these information and make it data, we asked the support of
> people trhough a crowdsourcing application (
> http://www.regardscitoyens.org/transparence-france/crowdsourcing/index.php
> ) and successfully digitized in only 10 days more than 16000 names of
> auditionnees thanks to 3000 people.
>
> It took us some time then to requalify this data, especially to
> categorize the different organizations as public, private, unions, ...
> In the end we got a dataset of 9000 auditionned organisations (within
> 3 years at the national Assembly) categorized and thematized which
> allowed us to publish a study and a data visualisation (inspired by
> the first version of where does my money go) :
> http://www.regardscitoyens.org/transparence-france/etude-lobbying/
>
> Unfortunately it is only in French, but we figured it could be of
> interest anyways !
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens
>