[open-government] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Fri Nov 11 20:54:11 UTC 2011

I've added the column and filled it for EU, USA, UK and France
What does the democracy index sheet indicated by the way ?

Benjamin

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 21:27, Tom Steinberg <tom at mysociety.org> wrote:
> 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
>>>> >> > The Open Knowledge FoundationPromoting Open Knowledge in a Digital
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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
>>>> >> > Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
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>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > www.ddie.me
>>>> >> > twitter.com/ddie
>>>> >> > +49 171 780 870 3
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>>>> >
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>>>> >
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