[open-government] Fwd: Join the Money Politics and Transparency Conversation

Fri Jul 11 16:22:56 UTC 2014

FYI everyone.

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From: Lisa Rosenberg <lrosenberg at sunlightfoundation.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:48 AM
Subject: Join the Money Politics and Transparency Conversation
To: sunlight-international at googlegroups.com, "
lobbying-transparency at googlegroups.com" <
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corporate-accountability at googlegroups.com" <
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**Apologies for Cross Posting**

Money, Politics and Transparenc <http://moneypoliticstransparency.org/>y, a
joint project of the Sunlight Foundation, Global Integrity and the
Electoral Integrity Project, is dedicated to improving access to
 information about party and campaign finances globally.

 The next, and most important, piece of the project is you. The best way
you can get involved is to join our Google Group
<http://moneypoliticstransparency.org/networking> so that we can start an
ongoing, online global conversation between interested parties so we can
share successes, failures, reform efforts, scandals, questions and answers.

 A few months old, Money Politics and Transparency has already shared
information about money’s impact on elections in the EU
<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/21/lacks-of-consistency-generates-lack-of-transparency-in-eu-elections/>
, Hungary
<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/04/03/lack-of-transparency-likely-to-tarnish-hungarian-election/>
, India
<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/04/29/complete-financial-opacity-in-record-breaking-indian-elections/>
, Ukraine
<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/23/civil-society-in-ukraine-seizing-the-momentum-for-real-reform/>
 and Egypt
<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/22/secret-financing-in-egyptian-presidential-elections/>.
We have designed a set of “Integrity Indicators” that we will use to assess
the current state of political finance transparency in 50 countries. And we
have begun research for in-depth, before-and-after case studies of
countries that have reformed their political finance regulations during the
last decade. At Sunlight Foundation’s TransparencyCamp, we facilitated a
conversation among advocates from dozens of countries about tools, projects
and citizen engagement initiatives that try to uncover the influence of
money on politics and advocate for stronger political finance regimes.

 Ultimately, we hope to use the information we gather to join with global
partners to create draft political finance transparency norms that can be
used as a starting point by stakeholders to improve political finance
systems in their own countries — creating an informed electorate, fostering
accountability and helping to curb corruption.

 Your participation will help us all better understand what is happening on
the ground in terms political finance transparency. By sharing your
stories, ideas and experiences we can all learn from one another. Anyone
with an interest in improving transparency of political finance is welcome.
Whether you are a civic hackers, transparency advocate, researcher,
investigative journalist or regulator, you are welcome and encouraged to
join the conversation.

 Too often, political finance reform efforts take place in a vacuum, with
reformers, politicians and the public never venturing outside their own
borders for thoughts on how to improve things at home. Money, Politics and
Transparency encourages you to break down those barriers by joining us here
<http://moneypoliticstransparency.org/networking>.

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Lisa Rosenberg
Government Affairs Consultant
The Sunlight Foundation
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