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Tools for Transparency
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SECRECY
Lack of Accountability Corruption Waste Cynicism
TRANSPARENCY
Participation Oversight Feedback Trust
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Only partially available online
Formatted as web page or PDF
Hard to search Can’t subscribe Can’t visualize Can’t re-use
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Publishing Structured Feeds
• Ability to subscribe to interesting data
• Data streams can be ‘mashed’ in new ways.
Data Visualization
• Makes it easy to find new patterns.
Collaborative Organization
• Tagging, Voting
Crowdsourcing
• Combines skills and input of large numbers of people
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Governments publish data
streams
Citizens monitor data
streams
Issues are detected
Issues are resolved
3rd
Party Tools
• Governments publish data streams
• 3rd parties create tools for analysis and oversight
• Citizens collaboratively monitor their government
• Citizens detect issues, give feedback
• Issues are resolved
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Government has no incentive ▪ Usually has disincentive
Don’t want a single monolithic solution▪ Want to allow evolution of best-
of-breed tools
Tools created by citizens, for citizens▪ Ensure participation
Why can’t the government do everything?
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Focus: US Congress California
Legislature
Gives grants to online transparency tools
$3.5 M Seed
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A recent US Congress bill
Groups for bill
Groups against bill
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Donations
Votes
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Publishing Structured Feeds
• MAPLight is a mashup of data streams from different sources.
Data Visualization
• MAPLight makes relationship between money and votes
visible.
Collaborative Organization
• Advocacy group tagsdonating companies as belonging to interest groups.
Crowdsourcing
• Thousands of journalists, advocates, and citizens can browse data and flag issues.
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People submit project ideas
Core team defines tools
Web development groups bid for implementation
Supporters donate to fund development
Engine for Donation-Based 3rd Party Tool
Development
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Travel and Hospitality Expense Database
• Make it easy to sort and visualize expenses
• Make it easy to screen new expenses
Access to Information Request Front-End
• Make it easy to file an access to information request
• Collect statistics on requests and response times
• Highlight the areas that receive the most requests
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Advisors
• Technical Domain Experts, Academics
• Advocacy Groups
• Journalists
Volunteers
• Planners
• Organizers
• Evangelists
Money
• Donations
• Grants
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Jennifer Bellvisiblegovernment.ca