Public Officials' Assets Explorer Project in South Korea

mozfest-bot commented 8 years ago

[ ID ] 1502eeab-0268-47fa-bc6f-44a1247d16fd

[ Submitter's Name ] Seunghun Jang [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Creative Commons Korea [ Submitter's Twitter ] 6thmonth__

[ Space ] journalism [ Secondary Space ] movement

[ Format ] demo, fireside

Description

http://jaesan.newstapa.org -> In collaboration with Newstapa(the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism) and in cohesion with the Public Servant’s Ethics, Creative Commons Korea built a website --- which contains the data on Korean officials’ assets ---- that enables anyone to search and download data from the site in an easily accessible manner. The amount of data released through the Korean Public Officials’ Assets website is 140,378 rows, 25 types of assets, 7010 people, and 66568 officials for the last 11 years. I'd love to share our story to build this website, and how korean people use this website including why we started this project, how to build, and an epilogue of this project.

Agenda

I'm a civic hacker in South Korea. I've been doing civic hacking for about 2 years from 2014. While I was working on this project in collaboration with Newstapa, the Korea Center of Investigative Journalism, I could see this project not only from civic hacking perspective but also from journalist's perspective. It is very important to understand the gap between their views for collaboration with civic hacking and jornalism. I'd love to talk about this issue with other civic hackers and journalists. Moreover this project to gather 11 years data of public officials' assets and build an explorer website is very rare in the world as well as in South Korea especially in terms of the scale. I really hope that other civic hackers get inspiration from this project taking advantage of this chance.

Participants

common: story telling of the circumstance of open data, and journalism in Korea and why/how to build this website.
3:
to share the circumstance of FOIA in each country, especially for public servants' ethics.
To share similar cases with our project, public officials' assets explorer, and the story of each cases, and feedbacks.
If there are journalists, I'd love to hear their opinion of this website.
15:
To share similar cases with our project, public officials' assets explorer, and the story of each cases, and feedbacks.
If there are journalists, I'd love to hear their opinion of this website.
25:
To share similar cases with our project, public officials' assets explorer, and the story of each cases, and feedbacks.
If there are journalists, I'd love to hear their opinion of this website.
Outcome

these days FOIA(Freedome of Information Act) is almost everywhere in the world. As outcomes of our project to build explorer website, I hope civic hackers in other countries try to hack public officials' assets data and build their own explorer system for the country. Maybe after this festival, and other civic hackers have their own explorer website, we can organize a community for monitoring public servants' assets to gather, share each stories, and collaborate with each other. I'd love to hear about the circumstance of monitoring public officials in other countries on this occasion.

pretty00butt commented 8 years ago

My firstname in Korean is Seunghun, but just call me Hoony. Thanks.

marcwalsh-zz commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the submission! Unfortunately this session has not been selected as part of the program for 2016. Please expect an email from us with further information very soon.

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