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Using crowdsourcing to make lobbying more transparent in the French National Assembly

Learning Points

The methods used in this project means that public data, otherwise difficult to use, can become accessible and readable. It is a scalable method because, thanks to the help of internet user citizens, it allows for the gradual and collective improvement of the data. This project provides a model that can be replicated in all countries to increase the transparency of the lobbying process.

The project highlights that crowdsourcing can be valuable in opening up government. Indeed, the public level of participation can be very high and citizens’ contribution can be hugely important in uncovering information which would otherwise be very difficult to generate through traditional research processes.

Transparence International France and Regards Citoyens’ plans for future work:

To develop a better understanding of lobbying in France both organisations believe that the same projects should be undertaken on the public reports of the Senate. This work should also be supplemented with documentation of influential actions or meetings taken with ministerial cabinets, high-level administration, bodies of expertise, and so forth. Transparence International France and Regards Citoyens invite these various bodies to make public, through their own actions, information on heard actors in order to help French citizens understand better how their political institutions work. 

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Myriam Savy

Transparence International France

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myriam.savy@transparence-france.org

Regards Citoyens

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contact@regardscitoyens.org

Frankie Hine-Hughes wrote this case study for Governance International on 22 March 2012.

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