The document discusses goals for strengthening the watchdog sector in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on collaboration and transparency initiatives. It highlights barriers such as lack of transparency and competition for resources, while emphasizing the importance of data standards like Popolo and OpenProcurement for enhancing data usage and increasing public accountability. The initiative aims to improve data analysis, reduce corruption, and engage citizens, with events planned in Sarajevo and Kyiv.

1. Data standards for watchdogs:
making a difference in Central and Eastern Europe

2. What are our goals?
Make stronger impact
Strengthen watchdog sector
Working closer together

3. Barriers to collaboration
Lack of transparency (languages, dozens of
initiatives)
Focusing on owns work
Ego of organizations and leaders
Competition for grants
Culture of not-sharing and lack of skills
Travel costs in CEE
Little reuse (data, code, tools, experience)

4. We focus on
Transparency of transparency initatives in CEE
-> transparencee.org
Networking + Collaboration + Best practices
“We” = TechSoup and Fundacja ePanstwo and all the
collaborating partners

5. Data is the key for transparency
Making sense of the information noise:
#PanamaPapers - we need to be the best in
data analysis, finding patterns, gaps
Opening up the data vs creating tools:
ParlData vs RedFlags

11. Data standards
We need the glue to connect all transparency
efforts:
CEE “mess”: 65 platforms, 2 standards used
(Popolo and OpenProcurement)
There is also OpenCorporates, Fiscal Data
Package
What about budgets, assets declarations,
company registers, etc.?

12. Popolo Data Standard

13. Watchdogs and data
NGOs can contribute with their research even
if they don’t have too much of IT skills
A standard = easier usage of the data = more
available experts

14. Advocacy
Providing better quality of the data is the
responsibility of public institutions.
Successful tools:
limit corruption + increase transparency +
engage citizens

15. Hope to meet you on
25-28th May, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
22nd June, Kiev, Ukraine

16. Krzysztof Madejski, ePanstwo Foundation
krzysztof.madejski@epf.org.pl @KayMadejski
Anna Kuliberda, TechSoup
akuliberda@techsoup.org @adrebiluka
TransparenCEE.org