My 5 minute pitch for a session on how to use open company data for investigations and campaigning. It takes Global Witness' research into the Burmese jade industry as an example: https://www.globalwitness.org/jade-story/
3. Jade is a key
driver of conflict
in Kachin
Province
Conflict has
claimed
hundreds of
lives
Displaced
over 100,000
people
4. Frantic jade extraction in
Kachin has turned mountains
into craters, polluted lakes &
streams and caused
widespread flooding
Heroin and
methamphetamine use is rife
amongst jade miners in Kachin
State harming local
communities
7. Bulk data
could look through hundreds of
companies and thousands of directors
for leads
Free
civil society groups can use it
Archival
stored information from the official
company registry which had been
taken down
over 98,000,000 companies
available as open data
8.
9. Fuzzy matching
politician_name director_name politician_id director_id distance_id
Daw Khin Hmwe Lwin Daw Khin Hmwe Lwin 5/MAKANA(NAING)003265 5/MAKANA(NAING)003265 0
U Nay Win Tun U Nay Win Swe 13/TAKANA(NAING)044190 13/TAKANA(NAING)044190 0
Wunna Kyawhtin U Htay Myint 12/LAMATA(NAING)009960 12/LAMATA(NAING)009960 0
U Tun Thein U Htun Thein @ Tun Tun 1/MAKANA(NAING)028072 9/MAKANA(NAING)028072 1
U La John Ngan Hsai Daw S Khaung Nan 1/MAKANA(NAING)078072 1/MAKANA(NAING)078032 1
U Za Khon Tein Ring U Za Khon Taint Yain 1/MAKANA(NAING)053117 9/MAKANA(NAING)053117 1
U Ohn Myint Daw Nu Nu Swe 12/YAKANA(NAING)010442 12/YAKANA(NAING)010443 1
17. The session
Demo the tools we used in the
investigation in more detail for
PDF extraction, fuzzy matching
and network mapping
Brainstorm data gaps, tools
and communities needed for
more effective open data
investigations
Discuss strategies for helping
engage a wider audience
around your data investigation
By Moses Harris (1731-1785) via Wikimedia Commons