[open-government] Sunlight Teaming Up With the Open Knowledge Foundation to Create New Lobbying Transparency Working Group

[Julia Keserű]

Do you want to know more about who`s influencing the decision-making
process in your country? Are you working to improve lobbying transparency
and have relevant knowledge to share? Do you want to know more about what
works and what doesn`t when it comes to lobbying regulation?

*The Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com/> and the Open
Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> are teaming up to convene a new
global group on lobbying
transparency<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lobbying-transparency>.
**If you’re working on lobbying transparency or interested in seeing what
you can do in your country then please do come and join us on the
lobbying-transparency
group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lobbying-transparency> and
introduce yourself. *

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Sunlight Teaming Up With the Open Knowledge Foundation to Create New
Lobbying Transparency Working
Group<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/29/sunlight-teaming-up-with-the-open-knowledge-foundation-to-create-new-lobbying-transparency-working-group/>
by Júlia Keseru <http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/jkeseru/>Oct. 29,
2013, 7:55 a.m.

The Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com/> and the Open
Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> are teaming up to convene a new
global group on lobbying
transparency<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lobbying-transparency>
.

We want civil society organisations, journalists and citizens around the
world to be able to use information about lobbying to understand and report
on the influence of big money on politics and to push for reforms in this
area.

To this end we’d like to connect and support campaigners working to improve
lobbying transparency around the world so that they can:

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   *Learn about what each other are doing* - including sharing updates and
   asking for advice about ongoing policy and advocacy work
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   *Coordinate advocacy around lobbyist registers* - to push for better
   lobbyist registries, and to ensure that they are published as machine
   readable open data, as per the Open Data
Charter<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-data-charter>
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   *Collaborate around shared areas of interest* - from campaigns to
   mapping activities to tracking lobbying across borders

We’ll both be raising the importance of lobbying transparency in
discussions and sessions around theOpen Government Partnership
Summit<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/london-summit-2013>
in
London later this week. The Sunlight Foundation will also soon be releasing
guidance on lobbying disclosure, based on our experience in the US and our
in-depth research into global lobbying regulations.

If you’re working on lobbying transparency or interested in seeing what you
can do in your country then please do come and join us on the
lobbying-transparency
group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lobbying-transparency> and
introduce yourself.
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-- 
Júlia Keserű
International Program Coordinator

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

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