[OpenSpending] A list of transparency NGOs now live and needs your contribution!

Wed May 29 16:04:22 UTC 2013

(Sorry for cross-posting.)

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/29/transparency-advocates-from-all-around-the-world/

Transparency advocates from all around the
world<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/29/transparency-advocates-from-all-around-the-world/>
by Júlia Keseru <http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/jkeseru/>May 29,
2013, 11:54 a.m.

A few months ago, we embarked on a journey to create a repository of civil
society organizations working around transparency and open data issues from
all around the world. With our annual
TransparencyCamp<http://transparencycamp.org/>having
evolved into a significant hub for open government advocates alongside
Sunlight’s growing involvement in the
global<http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/international/>
 and municipal <http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/local/> open data
movement, it seemed a logical next step to map the landscape of like-minded
folks and create a single spreadsheet that tracks local and international
players in the field.

Besides simply locating open data activists, coders, hacker groups,
transparency advocates, anti-corruption research institutes, think tanks
and even some government-led transparency projects from a vide variety of
countries, Sunlight tried to filter information about relevant actors by
area of operation, issues covered and the actual approach. Crowdsourcing
the whole project would have definitely made our job easier. However our
experience shows that empty spreadsheets do not facilitate engagement so we
spent some time collecting that vast of amount of information and we now
decided to make it publicly available.

The initial goal was to create a repository of all the groups who could be
possible partners in Sunlight’s municipal and international projects but we
had to realize that there’s an increasing demand coming from the open
government community to have access to that information so we eventually
decided to share our resource with the wider public.

Such a pledge is always endless and the repository is never considered
complete but instead of sitting on the information any longer, we are now
opening up the process and ask for the community’s help to verify or
correct the data in the sheet and add missing organizations or projects.
Our approach was rather experimental and we did not seek perfectionism so a
lot of information is missing or incorrect but it's your turn to contribute!

The spreadsheet is now public - though not editable - and available
here<https://docs.google.com/a/sunlightfoundation.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoQuErjcV2a0dF85QTRRSEFtR3pfcjN4VHdwLVYzSXc#gid=0>
:

*Contribute*

We have compiled a repository of over 500 organizations from countries
listed in alphabetic order. At the end of the sheet, you'll find a couple
of organizations without a country code - mostly regional networks or
international organizations - but if you feel they should be listed under a
certain country, please let us know.

Though amazingly long, the list is far from complete. If your project or
organization is missing, don't even think of having hard feelings but send
us the relevant info and we will update the repository! If you work with
(technology-driven) transparency or open data issues and your project is
not on the list, please contact us atjkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com and
send your contact information, a link to your project, area of operation
(country or region), a few keywords for the topics you cover and the
approach of the project. If you are enlisted but information is missing or
incorrect, let us know! We also encourage everyone to dive into the list
and use it as a resource for research or a space for inspiration.

*Google group*

If you want to know more about the international work of Sunlight and our
partner groups, please join our new International Google Group at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sunlight-international!

*Many thanks to Alisha Green, Matt Rumsey, Matej Kurian, Melissa Ortiz
Masso and Madeline Magnuson for their contribution to the spreadsheet!*

-- 
Júlia Keserű
International Program Coordinator

1818 N Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
(1) 202-742-1520 *280

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