[open-government] Announcing Sunlight`s international lobbying disclosure guidelines

[donna.mandeville at gmail.com]

Hi Julia
I wanted to submit a few comments (I work in the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada) regarding our system, but have missed the deadline. Am just working on comments now - are they still welcome?

Thanks
Donna Mandeville


On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:18:10 PM UTC-5, Julia Keserű wrote:
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> This is just a heads-up that we have extended the deadline for leaving comments on our lobbying guides to February 1. We also encourage everyone to take a look at the report from Access Info and let Vicky or Helen know if you have any comments. We are working on merging these two documents into one single guide. 
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> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Julia Keserű <jke... at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:
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> Dear all (sorry for cross-posting)
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> We are very excited to announce the release of our draft lobbying disclosure guidelines and invite the community to provide input on these recommendations. 
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> Based in part on Sunlight`s experiences working to make lobbying more transparent in the US, the guide is organized into four parts: first, a section on definitions of key terms and the basic principles to make a lobbyist registry more robust; second, guidance on the minimum information that should be disclosed; third, a section on how this information should be collected and in what formats it should be published; and finally, some basic recommendations on enforcement and oversight.
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> The guide is intended as a conversation starter. We are very curious to hear your thoughts, especially on the definitions and the international examples we’ve collected.
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> You can read more about the guides in this intro post: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/12/03/announcing-sunlights-international-lobbying-guidelines/
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> Or go directly to the document and leave your comments before January 6th 2014: http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/lobbying/guidelines/  
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> We look forward to hearing from and working with many more of you in the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, we encourage you to join the lobbying working group created by Sunlight and the Open Knowledge Foundation.
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