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

Objectives

In France, lobbying (or the activity of interest groups) is neither defined nor regulated. Furthermore, current regulations do not require the institution to report on lobbying activities, and MPs do little to report on how they come to take positions meant to represent the French people.

In 2009 the French Assembly created a voluntary register of lobbyists who have access to its members. However, after a year the list still only contained 124 names and currently (March 2012) it still has just 144.

It was clear to the NGOs Regards Citoyens and Transparence International France that this didn’t reflect reality. They decided to investigate whether attempts to influence National Assembly members when preparing legislation and government evaluations interfered in any way with achieving a fair, pluralist and transparent system. The project also sought to uncover whether all types of organisations and interest groups received equal treatment.
The two organisations created a partnership that brought together the technical expertise in open data practices of Regards Citoyens with Transparence International France’s knowledge of issues surrounding transparency and honesty in public life.

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Myriam Savy

Transparence International France

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myriam.savy@transparence-france.org

Regards Citoyens

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

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