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

Sat Apr 2 17:02:16 UTC 2011

Dear Benjamin,

This is really exciting! Specially the crowdsourcing aspect of it! How did you manage to get so many people involved? I am very impressed! May I ask you for a Guestblog on the Blog of the OKFN? Would be great!

Best greetings and congratulations!
Daniel

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On 02.04.2011, at 18:37, Chris Taggart wrote:

> Benjamin
> This is really interesting. Great work.
> Chris
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> 2011/3/31 Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com>:
>> Oups sorry, I forgot the attachment.
>> 
>> B
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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.
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
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