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

Thu Mar 31 15:23:05 UTC 2011

Oups sorry, I forgot the attachment.

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 17:11, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> For more information, attached is the press communique in english that
> TI France sent away.
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> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
> Regards Citoyens
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> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 16:47, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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