How can open data be used to track government spending and spot oligarchs? Join the workshop organised by ERCAS in cooperation with YouControl and Open Contracting Partnership to discuss about the databases and digital tools that can help you understand government spending in Germany and the EU, and who profits from it.
This two-hour in-person workshop will include practical demonstrations of tools to research Russian assets and companies of sanctioned oligarchs; strategies for detecting risks in government contracts; and other tips for tracking public projects that keep our society running. While there will be a focus on Germany, we will also discuss best practices from the region.
Join us in the event, with Alina Mungiu Pippidi (Director at ERCAS – Hertie School), Georg Neumann (Open Contracting Partnership), Veronika Boyko (YouControl), and Julian Brummer (Hertie School), moderated by Sophie Brown (SEEK initiative).
Wed, Nov 2, 4 pm – 6 pm CET, Forum Hertie School
From contracts to oligarchs
Register here: https://lnkd.in/eRFj47_f
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School and Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS). She is the author of A Quest for Good Governance – How Societies Build Control of Corruption (2015) and of Europe’s Burden – Promoting Good Governance across Borders (2019), both with Cambridge University Press. Mungiu-Pippidi also chairs the Expert Group on Corruption Measurement of the UNODC and has consulted for the World Bank, UNDP, the International Monetary Fund, the European Parliament, the Swedish Government, and others. Her research projects have resulted in commons like corruptionrisk.org, europam.eu and opentender.eu.

Veronika Boyko is social direction chief at YouControl, a Ukrainian IT-company that creates solutions based on open data. Skilled in open data analytics, social media marketing, she organized trainings and taught more than 1700 journalists in Ukraine and abroad how to use analytical instruments in investigations.


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