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Digital Solutions for Political Finance Reporting & Disclosure

Digital Solutions for Political Finance Reporting & Disclosure. Sam van der Staak, International IDEA. About International IDEA.

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Digital Solutions for Political Finance Reporting & Disclosure

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  1. Digital Solutions for Political Finance Reporting & Disclosure Sam van der Staak, International IDEA

  2. About International IDEA • The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is the only global intergovernmental organization with a direct mandate to support democracy worldwide • 30 Member States on 6 continents; Member States are the owners of the Institute and provide strategic directions with regards to its budget, work plans.

  3. Offices and Member States

  4. Do political parties have to report regularly on their finances? * Source: International IDEA Political Finance database

  5. Is information in reports from political parties and/or candidates to be made public? * Source: International IDEA Political Finance database

  6. What are Digital solutions for Political finance reporting/disclosure? • Online (or software) reporting of income & expenditure by political parties. • Online disclosure of income & expenditure of political parties.

  7. Online reporting

  8. Estonia

  9. Added value • Saves times (both for oversight agencies and parties/candidates) • Comprehensive records all in one place • More accurate data • Aid verification efforts • Greater public transparency and accountability of online disclosure

  10. “In the anticorruption arena, the real value of open data lies in the ability to interconnect multiple datasets to discern patterns and expose signs of corruption” Stanford Social Innovation Review (2017), Data Disrupts Corruption, Carlos Santiso & Ben Roseth, Spring 2017

  11. Good disclosure site • User friendly • Accesible • Searchable • Comparable • Downloadable • Timely • Detailed

  12. US disclosure of income

  13. Brexit: donations

  14. Brexit: spending

  15. Political Finance Online Reporting and Disclosure Systems around the world

  16. France, ODIHR election report

  17. Why now • Increasing public demand for transparency of office bearers. • Rising technological access. • Pressure from alternative sources to reveal private finance (e.g. Panama papers).

  18. Impact • Academic: correlation between transparency requirements of reporting and disclosure, and lower levels of perceived corruption • Anecdotal: increased scrutiny of PF data by civil society and media. • Related fields: business owners declared more income when tax returns became searchable online.

  19. International IDEA Support

  20. Questions & Answers Sam van der Staak Senior Programma Manager, Wider Europe Programme International IDEA E: S.vanderstaak@idea.int @SamvanderStaak

  21. Examples of Civil Society Disclosure Databases

  22. Examples of Political Party Disclosure websites

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