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Tracking Conflict of Interest, Lobby and
Corruption Through Open Legislative Data6th July, 2012
Likes:• transparency•open data•Structured, searchable datasets•Unveiling corruption cases•Helping investigative journalists
Dislikes:•Corruption•Misuse of public funds•Nepotism
•bills, amendments, hearings (searchable via sector codes)•names of MPs submitting the bills•MP, fraction, comittee profiles•statistics•voting tendencies•MPs active in the sector•asset declarations•deviation from fraction
•business interests •business networks•received state supports / procurement tenders
•dubious cases investigated by the press
tracking conflict of interest
track legal changes in the sector (subscribe to feed)
an investigative journalist can…
navigate to the comittee subpage, learn the names of the MPs drafting the bill
navigate to the MPs profile page
look for the profile of the related companies (does this company profits from bill amendments?)
look at the charts in the profile pages of MPs (activity, presence, bills submitted, asset declarations)
a citizen can…
look at the business interests and find out if some info is missing
add new connection on the crowd-sourcing interface
if there is a serious gap between asset declarations, and business interests revealed on ‘The Network’, he can write an email to the MP
can check if they were mentioned in corruption –like cases
download different statistics and embed them in his work
a researcher can…
looking at MPs active in the sector
detect lobby-driven decisions
analyze health care procurements
analyze health-care related fraud/corruption cases
get statistics about the the work, activity, discipline in the parties, common topics
check networks of parties, main business partners (procurements, ‘close’ companies, connected businessmen etc.)
analyze how corruption cases of parties have been handled by the media
an entrepreneur/businessman can…
realize that all the lucky cities belong to the constituency of the same MP
learn that MP was a member of the agricultural chamber together w. the DG of Rural Development Office …
check farm subsidies (why always other people win?)
…and they usually hunt together
possible conflicts of interest are signalled on the website