[okfn-discuss] Global campaign for opening up contract data

Sat Jun 28 16:31:55 UTC 2014

Hey Daniela, 

I can’t speak to the Stop Secret Contracts campaign, you’ll have to ask core staff as to its purpose. More generally, though, open contracting stuff is currently being pushed by a working group that includes NGOs, the World Bank and even some country governments (http://open-contracting.org). Perhaps you can lobby your government to join that campaign, e.g. as part of their (next) OGP action plan?

In Europe, we’ve had some success in opening up contracting data by bringing together journalists and devs (http://ted.openspending.org). When you have a few well-known investigative reporters request the information, it has a very different impact from just a few nerds. You can read more here: http://blog.okfn.org/2014/05/16/opening-up-eu-procurement-data/

A related approach might be to check if there is at least some data (e.g. for one state) available, build something awesome with it, and then get the media to ask why this cannot be scaled out across the country. 

Cheers, 

- Friedrich 

On 19 Jun 2014, at 22:44, Daniela Mattern <daniela.mattern at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey, 
> 
> I recently joined Open Knowledge Central and now I got in touch with the campaign team.
> I am very interested in contract data as I tried to open up some contract in the past in Brazil using Freedom of Information requests and failed.
> Open Knowledge's objective is to run a Global campaign to force policy makers to open up contract data.
> 
> We wonder how such a campaign could work.
> 
> Which process do you suggest?
> If you had a website to support the campaign what would you use it for?
> What do you think should be the role of Open Knowledge Central in this project?
> How can we effectively plan the campaign together with the community? What should be the first steps of running such a campaign?
> 
> 
> Looking forward to having your ideas?
> 
> Best
> 
> Daniela
> 
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