data standards for watchdogs: making a difference in central and eastern europe
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Data standards for watchdogs:making a difference in Central and Eastern Europe
What are our goals?Make stronger impact
Strengthen watchdog sector
Working closer together
Barriers to collaborationLack of transparency (languages, dozens of initiatives)
Focusing on owns work
Ego of organizations and leaders
Competition for grants
Culture of not-sharing and lack of skills
Travel costs in CEE
Little reuse (data, code, tools, experience)
We focus onTransparency of transparency initatives in CEE -> transparencee.org
Networking + Collaboration + Best practices
“We” = TechSoup and Fundacja ePanstwo and all the collaborating partners
Data is the key for transparencyMaking sense of the information noise:
#PanamaPapers - we need to be the best in data analysis, finding patterns, gaps
Opening up the data vs creating tools:
ParlData vs RedFlags
Data standardsWe need the glue to connect all transparency efforts:
CEE “mess”: 65 platforms, 2 standards used (Popolo and OpenProcurement)
There is also OpenCorporates, Fiscal Data Package
What about budgets, assets declarations, company registers, etc.?
Popolo Data Standard
Watchdogs and data
NGOs can contribute with their research even if they don’t have too much of IT skills
A standard = easier usage of the data = more available experts
AdvocacyProviding better quality of the data is the responsibility of public institutions.
Successful tools:
limit corruption + increase transparency + engage citizens
Hope to meet you on
25-28th May, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
22nd June, Kiev, Ukraine
Krzysztof Madejski, ePanstwo Foundation
[email protected] @KayMadejski
Anna Kuliberda, TechSoup
[email protected] @adrebiluka
TransparenCEE.org