[open-government] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Fri Nov 11 20:27:26 UTC 2011

Yes - by all means add a lobbying transparency column to the sheet.
Whilst it shouldn't expand for ever, this is obviously a legitimate
and complimentary area.

Rob - I like the fact you've now got companies giving evidence. Awesome.

best,

Tom

On 11 November 2011 17:36, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more vote for a lobbying monitoring column Tom :)
>
> Rob, looking at the data you have on auditions, we were wondering if
> you'd considered displaying it in some visualized ways. We did
> something similar on audiitions at the french national assembly using
> a themes/categories visualisation inspired by the wheredoesmymoneygo
> bubbles here :
> http://www.regardscitoyens.org/transparence-france
>
> The code for the visu is free and available mainly here & there :
> http://cpc.regardscitoyens.org/trac/browser/cpc/trunk/lobbyistes/visu/js/bubbles.js
>  http://cpc.regardscitoyens.org/trac/browser/cpc/trunk/lobbyistes/visu/index.php
>
> It was made generic at first and then tuned a lot on last minute
> without any time spent on documentation for the release of the study,
> so it might not be usable out of the pocket, but it's basically a
> javascript that reads json to produce the viz and we'd be happy to
> help you port it if you'd like !
>
> Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou for Regards Citoyens
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 18:12, Rob . <rob.02004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>> I've just added http://whoslobbying.com/ to the UK Parliamentary monitoring
>> entry on the spreadsheet. Who's Lobbying is now storing data on
>> organisations that have made oral evidence submissions to parliament
>> committees.
>>
>> As of this week the site also contains Lords parliament staff declared
>> interests that make reference to organisations.
>>
>> In total the site has entries for almost 5,000 distinct organisations and
>> individuals that have either met a minister, given oral evidence to a select
>> committee, or are on record as retaining a lobbying consultancy firm. Almost
>> 2,000 organisations have been matched to wikipedia entries. This allows data
>> to be grouped by wikipedia categories.
>>
>> So the site is doing more than just monitoring parliament. Maybe there is
>> scope for a new category on your spreadsheet?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>>
>> On 11 November 2011 15:26, Tom Steinberg <tom at mysociety.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel, all,
>>>
>>> A couple of weeks back me and a few other people started to populate a
>>> very lightweight spreadsheet of all kinds of civic sites, in all kinds
>>> of country. If you'd like to contribute, or just check out what's
>>> there, please just open this Google spreadsheet:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkwRl6JWX8tkdGxqT1ZFUWxFbElVa3d1S1NOODQ2aVE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 15 October 2011 18:22, Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>>> <andrew.g.mandelbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Daniel,
>>> > The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and World Bank Institute (WBI)
>>> > have
>>> > conducted a joint project on parliamentary monitoring organizations
>>> > (PMOs),
>>> > the final report of which has just been released
>>> >
>>> > here: http://www.ndi.org/files/governance-parliamentary-monitoring-organizations-survey-september-2011.pdf.
>>> > It identifies more than 190 PMOs in over 80 countries, about 40% of
>>> > which
>>> > are informatics projects. Many of these PMOs scrape  information from
>>> > parliamentary websites for reuse on their own websites. Many who do not
>>> > use
>>> > informatics conduct similar work the old fashioned way. The report
>>> > discusses
>>> > good practice in parliamentary monitoring and makes recommendations for
>>> > the
>>> > international development community with respect to supporting PMOs.
>>> > A next step for NDI is to work with PMOs to develop parliamentary
>>> > transparency standards. We are also developing a discussion group in the
>>> > password-protected "trusted area" of the AGORA portal for parliamentary
>>> > development (www.agora-parl.org). I'm happy to sign people up for AGORA
>>> > who
>>> > might be interested in participating.
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>>> > Senior Program Officer, Governance
>>> > National Democratic Institute
>>> > amandelbaum at ndi.org
>>> > 202-728-5552
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stef van Grieken
>>> > <stef at hetnieuwestemmen.nl>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Daniel,
>>> >>
>>> >> You're missing some of our projects:
>>> >>
>>> >> - Toevalofniet: shows influence links between politicians and maps the
>>> >> 'old boys networks'. Project is a collaboration with the Dutch
>>> >> newspaper NRC
>>> >> Handelsblad.
>>> >>
>>> >> - Politwoops: shows deleted tweets of politicians in the Dutch
>>> >> Parlaiment.
>>> >>
>>> >> - Volgmijnstem: currently being developed together with Nu.nl. This
>>> >> website monitors parliamentary activity and presents it as context
>>> >> information on the website nu.nl.
>>> >>
>>> >> - Wettenstrijd: is a game that simulates how parliaments work. Uses
>>> >> actual
>>> >> proceedings from the EU and Dutch parliament.
>>> >>
>>> >> - Maildepolitiek: allows citizens to request an answer by e-mail from
>>> >> multiple MP's on a specific subject. Conversation is being published on
>>> >> the
>>> >> site.
>>> >>
>>> >> Two of my colleagues will be their (added them in the CC.)
>>> >>
>>> >> Kind regards,
>>> >>
>>> >> Stef
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 15 okt. 2011, at 15:48, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > Hi all,
>>> >> > I am working on a Topic Report for the ePSIplatform [1] on the
>>> >> > "re-use
>>> >> > of parliamentary data"
>>> >> > (focus EU member states) and I would very much appreciate your help!
>>> >> > Do you know of any new initiatives / projects working on re-using
>>> >> > parliamentary data that is not listet here:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_informatics
>>> >> >
>>> >> > If so  please let me know (updates on the wikipage are always welcome
>>> >> > too :)
>>> >> > Please let me know if you are able to help. Thanks in advance!
>>> >> > If some of you are at OGDCamp [2] in Warsaw next week we
>>> >> > couldactually
>>> >> > meet there in person. Also: if you know any projects and
>>> >> > colleagues I should contact on this, please let me know.
>>> >> > All the bestDaniel
>>> >> >
>>> >> > --
>>> >> > Daniel Dietrich
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>>> >> >
>>> >> > 1. http://epsiplatform.eu/2. http://ogdcamp.org/
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > For your info: this mail was just send toFriedrich LindenbergStefan
>>> >> > MarsiskeErik JosefssonNiels Erik Kaaber RasmussenRonny PatzJeni
>>> >> > TennisonJulien BaillergeauLaurent PeuchChris TaggartTom Steinberg
>>> >> > --
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Daniel Dietrich
>>> >> >
>>> >> > The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>> >> >
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>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> >
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>>> >
>>
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