NEW GLOBAL GROUP ON LOBBYING TRANSPARENCY

The Open Knowledge Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation are teaming up to convene a new global group on lobbying transparency.

They want civil society organisations, journalists and citizens around the world to be able to use information about lobbying to understand and report on the influence of big money on politics and to push for reforms in this area. To this end they would like to connect and support campaigners working to improve lobbying transparency around the world so that they can:

• Learn about what each other are doing – including sharing updates and asking for advice about ongoing policy and advocacy work
• Coordinate advocacy around lobbyist registers – to push for better lobbyist registries, and to ensure that they are published as machine readable open data
• Collaborate around shared areas of interest – from campaigns to mapping activities to tracking lobbying across borders