[open-government] Examples of Open Data against conflicts of interests?

Thu Dec 8 19:27:04 UTC 2011

Hi Marco,

It wasn't specifically aimed at conflicts of interest but more on
lobbying in general, but we worked at Regards Citoyens with
Transparency International on visualizing the influence from all kind
of actors within the french national assembly by generating Open Data
from public reports, scraping and crowdsourcing the names and
organisations listed as auditionned by the MPs in annexes

This work is visible in french here :
http://www.regardscitoyens.org/transparence-france/

You can read slides about it here in english :
http://www.regardscitoyens.org/presentations/20110701_RC_OKCon_Lobbying.pdf

Greetings,

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 07:36, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am collecting for an article real world examples and success stories
> of one **specific** usage of Open Data/Open Gov projects: discovering
> and preventing conflicts of interests at all levels, from city to
> state. I already have some material, but the more the better of
> course!
>
> what I am looking for are things like showing which public officials
> or candidates own stocks in which companies, and if/how they vote for
> laws that specifically impact on those companies, or which company
> funded which party, etc....
>
> Any input is very welcome, and please DO pass around this request as
> much as you see fit!
>
> thanks,
>        Marco
>        http://mfioretti.com
>
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