The future of lobbying transparency
Transparency International UK
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- Day
- Tuesday 4 February
- Time slot
- 09:30-10:30
- Room
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Fintry suite
Wheelchair accessible - Contact
- Juliet Swann
- Topics
- Environment Equalities and human rights Policy
- Overall aim
- To introduce Transparency International UK's updated Open Access tool that enables users to look up Scottish lobbying activity and UK Ministerial Engagements data.
- To demonstrate how the tool can allow users to filter by topic, thanks to machine learning.
- To share case studies from Friends of the Earth Scotland and The Ferret about what lobbying transparency can tell us about decision making and how campaigners can use that information.
- To discuss how lobbying transparency might be improved and strengthened.
- Description
The future of lobbying transparency: AI analysis + better data = improved accountability.
Transparency International UK invite you to hear from journalists, environmental campaigners and anti-corruption researchers about the ways lobbying transparency data can help demonstrate who decision makers are meeting and expose undue influence.
We will be joined by The Ferret and Friends of the Earth Scotland who will share how they use lobbying data to generate news stories, raise transparency issues and campaign for change.
The event will enable visitors to The Gathering to see how they can better understand who is successfully lobbying members of parliament, where there are gaps in transparency data, and how they might analyse lobbying data to contribute to their work including by making links between lobbying meetings, parliamentary debates and policy decisions - enabling closer examination of exactly who is influencing real-world outcomes.
We will share an exciting new tool which allows users to both analyse and compare lobbying transparency data at Holyrood and Westminster. It also leverages machine learning to allow searches by topic, including climate, housing, defence, finance and health.
The AI will also seek to discern links between eg fossil fuel narratives and contributions to parliamentary debates.
This event will showcase the tool which we hope will allow people working on specific subject areas to interrogate transparency data more efficiently and effectively.
- Who is the event aimed at?
Project/line managers
- Who is speaking at this event?
- Transparency International UK
Friends of the Earth Scotland
The Ferret
