[open-government] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Fri Nov 11 17:36:43 UTC 2011

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
>> >> > The Open Knowledge FoundationPromoting Open Knowledge in a Digital
>> >> > Agewww.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org
>> >> > www.ddie.metwitter.com/ddie+49 171 780 870 3
>> >> >
>> >> > 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
>> >> > Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
>> >> > www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org
>> >> >
>> >> > www.ddie.me
>> >> > twitter.com/ddie
>> >> > +49 171 780 870 3
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>> >
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>> >
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