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

[Eric Mill]

Could you give an example of how Google's corporate interests might
negatively impact a mailing list we choose to host there?

All of the bad scenarios I can foresee are just Google Groups becoming a
worse product, which makes us want to leave -- which would be the same
amount of work as leaving proactively. I can't think of a reason we'd be
harmed in a way beyond feeling like leaving, by staying on Google Groups.


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:29 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> 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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