[open-government] Quién Manda: Who's the Boss? - Spain Edition

[Julia Keserű]

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/17/quien-manda-whos-the-boss-spain-edition-now-with-less-tony-danza/

Quién Manda: Who's the Boss? - Spain Edition (Now with less Tony
Danza)<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/17/quien-manda-whos-the-boss-spain-edition-now-with-less-tony-danza/>
by Caitlin Weber <http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/cweber/>Oct. 17,
2013, 10:30 a.m.

[image: quien-manda_logo]<http://sunlightfoundation.com/media/2013/10/quien-manda_logo.png>Launched
last week by Madrid-based nonprofit,
Civio<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/06/14/opengov-voices-on-the-eve-of-a-disappointing-foi-law-spanish-civic-organizations-meet-the-challenge/>
, Quién Manda <http://quienmanda.es/> (Who Rules?) takes on the task of
monitoring the goings on of Spanish public officials and influential
corporate leaders. The platform has been designed to keep an eye on the
unmonitored, and rarely recorded interactions that Spanish politicians are
having behind closed doors, tinted car windows and somehow frequently right
in front of the lens of a camera.

The team at Civio has tasked themselves with tagging photos a la Facebook
with as many high profile names as they can. Each individual and
corporation that gets tagged receives a profile that collects all tagged
photos and displays the power connections that have been identified, along
with links to social media accounts and any available biographical
information. The system currently has over 100 tagged photographs,
identifying over 2500 relationships.

[image: qm_fullpage]<http://sunlightfoundation.com/media/2013/10/qm_fullpage1.png>

As part of Sunlight's international exchange
program<http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/international/>,
I just returned to from two weeks on loan to Civio. When I arrived, they
had already produced a seemingly fully functional tool. With the assistance
of a freelance designer they had wireframed, created a logo, and
implemented a prototype of the site. My job was to build off of the
direction they had established and create design mockups for them as
quickly as possible. Two weeks later, the day before I left, they launched
Quién Manda with it's newly implemented design.

Working with the team at Civio was a fun experience. At Sunlight, we have
the luxury of a full design team and the expectation that we can find the
resources amongst our large and diverse staff to pull off the projects we
dream up. Civio's team is smaller. They have three full time and one part
time employee on staff, dividing their efforts amongst content creation,
grant writing, web development and promotion. Needless to say, they were
very busy while I was there. With a deadline looming, we all worked as
efficiently as possible to get Quién Manda out the door.

[image: civio_sunlight]<http://sunlightfoundation.com/media/2013/10/civio_sunlight.jpg>

[image: qm_cigars]<http://sunlightfoundation.com/media/2013/10/qm_cigars.png>On
my last day there I had a few extra hours to work on some tangential
projects, creating a few assets related to their crowdfunding campaign on
Goteo. I ended my time there by wrapping chocolate cigars with Quién Manda
branded cigar wraps for their launch celebration.

It was interesting to work with an organization that's end goal parallels
ours, but encounters different variations of the problems we face in the
United States and the challenges we tackle at Sunlight. While I was working
on Quién Manda, I kept thinking of it as a variation of Influence
Explorer<http://influenceexplorer.com/> within
the limits of less available data and through the lens of our experimental
project180 Degrees <http://180.sunlightfoundation.com/>. Check out Quién
Manda <http://quienmanda.es/>, and throw a drop or two in their bucket at
their crowdfunding campaign <http://goteo.org/project/quien-manda>.

-- 
Júlia Keserű
International Program Coordinator

1818 N Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
(1) 202-742-1520 *280

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