[open-government] [euopendata] New projects on parliamentary transparency?

Fri Nov 11 21:31:23 UTC 2011

Cool! Can we blog about this saying 'please add'? ;-)

J.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou
<b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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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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>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > www.ddie.me
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>>>>> >>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Andrew G. Mandelbaum
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Mobile: (973) 650-2067
>>>>> > Skype: agm3jordan
>>>>> > Twitter: agm3dc
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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