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

[stef]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:45:59PM +0000, Julia Keserű wrote:
> 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?

congrats! important concerns that we share.
> 
> *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>.

i wonder if the hosting of this mailing list on google servers is such a good
idea? as an european who researches lobbying myself, i found that google is
quite active through proxies. i would propose to move this mailing list to a
server that is independent from influences of corporate interests.

cheers,s

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