[open-government] [ogp] Re: [Sunlight International] Re: RV: [foianet] asset declarations database was released in Peru

[Florencia Guerzovich]

Hi all,

The open databases are great news. Still, a note about the bigger picture
seems in order - particularly for the Sunlight and TI colleagues working on
collecting information about asset disclosure projects.

The Argentinean executive no longer releases the data that enabled them and
La Nacion to build the database.  A 2013 statute diminished the quantity
and quality of data available in the name of openness. As this 4-pager
explains, the changes in the rules mean that real people who used the data
in concrete cases to control public officials, can no longer do it
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364136 (for those that
read Spanish ACIJ and Poder Ciudadano just published reports)

The Argentinean system has been one of the few out there that has had a
range of active, sustainable users who put the information to work for
accountability. So much so, that it was a poster child for openness across
the Americas and elsewhere - a model for others much like the La Nacion
Database. This reversal in the system, going virtually unnoticed, seems
worrisome in Argentina and beyond.

Ideas about possible actions to protect/restore useful openness moving
 forward are very timely,

Best
Florencia Guerzovich
@guerzovich







On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:22 PM, mrpavese at poderciudadano.org <
mrpavese at poderciudadano.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> Here a open data platform we developed in Argentina about assets
> declaration, the first one in our country:
> http://interactivos.lanacion.com.ar/declaraciones-juradas
>
>
> 2014-09-05 15:21 GMT-03:00 Julia Keserű <jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com>:
>
>> Javier, you should use <OGP at dgroups.org> if you want to reach the OGP
>> civil society community.
>>
>> Great project, congratulations!
>>
>> FYI, Ivan Ninenko from TI Russia and us at Sunlight are just about to
>> start collecting information about similar projects and asset disclosure
>> methods from around the world. We`ll keep everyone in the loop.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Javier Casas <javiercasas70 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear OGP community
>>>
>>> On Wednesday was released the first database which gathers the 100%
>>> asset declarations of all the 42 majors of Lima (from 2003 to 2014). You
>>> can see the tool in the site: www.ojo-publico.com
>>>
>>> This web tool is the outcome of the alliance between Suma Ciudadana and
>>> ‘Ojo Público’, an independent team of journalists. We want to promote the
>>> social control of the politics in public charges and officials, linking the
>>> citizens with the journalists through this web.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Javier
>>>
>>> www.sumaciudadana.org
>>>
>>>
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