Participants Package

INFORMATION PROGRAM
Use of Information and Data for Enhanced

Communication and Advocacy
Capacity Building Event organized by Information Program and Think Tank Fund
17-18 March, 2011 Budapest
Updated March 10
17 March
9:00–9:30 Introductions Information Program – Elizabeth Eagen, Janet Haven
Think Tank Fund – Goran Buldioski
9:30-10:30 Opening Keynote: Turning Data into Action
Ellen Miller, Founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
Followed by discussion and Q&A
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Panel discussion: Open and Closed Data in Context, and Why it Matters
What is gained with open data, what is lost with closed data, and what are the best practices for
governments and organizations? Moderated by Martin Tisne, Transparency and Accountability
Initiative
• Why should think tanks and advocacy groups care about open government data?
(Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation) This short talk will provide a succinct
introduction to the phenomenon of open government data, with reference to projects and
initiatives that have sprung up around the world in the last two years. In particular it will focus on
why developments in this area may be relevant to advocacy groups and think tanks.
• Right to Information and Right to Reuse (Helen Darbishire, Executive Director, Access
Info Europe) This short talk will cover issues related to open data and right to information laws,
looking at copyright, data formats and reuse.
• Data.gov: Moving Datasets Online (John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight
Foundation) This short talk will discuss Sunlight Foundation’s work on data.gov, with lessons
learned.
Followed by group discussion
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Organizational marketplace – Each participant will be given opportunity to present their
organization. This will be done in an exhibition style, and no separate oral presentations are requited.
Participants should bring publications (books, reports, studies, policy briefs, newsletters and other
relevant material) produced by their think tanks, posters, laptops with short presentation or any other
presentation that would be self-explanatory to visitors, pictures from their events, T-shirts and any
other material that depicts the work of their organization to other participants present at the seminar.
2:15-2:45 An Abecedary of Civic Hackerdom (Tony Bowden, International Agitator, mySociety) In this
short talk, Tony Bowden will discuss some of the lessons he's drawn from the past 18 months of
working as mySociety's international agitator and mentor on technology and democracy projects
across Central and Eastern Europe. mySociety has pioneered the use of technology in the UK to bring
citizens and organizations closer to holding their government to account, through such projects as
FixMyStreet, WhatDoTheyKnow (FOI requests), and TheyWorkForYou (parliamentary monitoring).
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-5:00 Introduction to information visualization – (Marek Tuszynski and Tom Longley, Tactical
Technology Collective) In this session, Tactical Tech's Marek Tuszynski and Tom Longley will lead
participants through different ways that data and information have been presented visually as part of
campaigns to create change. They'll look at key elements of successful visualization and insightful
advocacy that participants can take into their work. Expect a highly participatory session full of
exercises, discussion and examples from around the world.
Followed by a small group discussion on what think tanks currently do with data
5:00-5:30 Resource people introduce planned sessions for Day 2
Participants sign up for sessions
5:30-7:00 Break
7:00 Dinner at a nearby restaurant
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9:00–09:15 Review of Day 1 – Goran Buldioski, Think Tank Fund
9:15–9:45 Explanation and framing of Day 2 – Elizabeth Eagen, Information Program
10:00– 11:30 Making sense of
(parallel spending data - Online Legislative
Tech project
session 1) Evidence-based (Jonathan Gray & Accountability
management
advocacy Friedrich (Ellen Miller & John
(Aaron Presnall,
(Tactical Tech) Lindenberg, Open Wonderlich, Sunlight
Jefferson Institute)
Knowledge Foundation)
Foundation)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-1:15 Data discovery and
Government
(parallel reuse Geospatial tools
session 2)
Evidence-based Spending Tracked
(Jonathan Gray, and policy data
advocacy (Ellen Miller & John
Friedrich Lindenberg, (Aaron Presnall,
(Tactical Tech) Wonderlich, Sunlight
Open Knowledge Jefferson Institute)
Foundation)
Foundation)
1:15-2:15 Lunch
2:15–3:45 Open government
(parallel data in your Internationalizing
session 3) country WhatDoTheyKnow: Tech project
Evidence-based
(Jonathan Gray & Making Public the management
advocacy
Friedrich FOI Request Process (Aaron Presnall,
(Tactical Tech)
Lindenberg, Open (Tony Bowden, Jefferson Institute)
Knowledge mySociety)
Foundation)
3:45–5:00 Open time for individual consultations (Coffee served at the beginning of this session)
This will be an opportunity for all those who have a work in progress or fairly developed project
idea to address some of the resource people and discuss their idea in depth.
5:00–6:00 Follow up and evaluation
Conclusions – Think Tank Fund – Andrej Nosko
Formal closing of the event – Andrej Nosko and Elizabeth Eagen
6:00-7:00 Break
7:00-10:00 Danube cruise with dinner
Description of Friday sessions: (continued on next page)

Evidence-based advocacy - Marek Tuszynski and Tom Longley, Tactical Technology Collective (TTC)
Getting data can be hard work, but using it effectively to create change is still the biggest challenge. In this workshop
participants can learn about approaches to analyzing and presenting data which are focused on the needs
campaigning and advocacy. It will also look at different ways that think tanks can make their data more accessible to
advocacy groups, and work with them to keep their campaigning grounded in the facts.
Tech project management - Aaron Presnall, Jefferson Institute
So, you have a great idea and a committed donor, but managing a tech project can sometimes seem intimidating. It
shouldn't be. This workshop will cover top 10 mistakes to avoid on a non-profit technology project, and its corollary
list of top ten best practices.
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Internationalizing WhatDoTheyKnow: Making public the FOI request process - Tony Bowden, mySociety
In this session, Tony Bowden will walk participants through WhatDoTheyKnow, mySociety's public FOI request portal,
looking at some of the key design, usability, technical, and philosophical issues raised in creating such a site. He will
also cover their new Alaveteli (http://alaveteli.org/) project that aims to produce an internationalized, flexible version
of WhatDoTheyKnow by working with partners implementing FOI request tools in their own countries. The remainder
of the session will be spent discussing project strategies and technology issues with participants interested in
exploring similar projects for their own country, or looking to learn more about the topic.
Making sense of spending data - Jonathan Gray & Friedrich Lindenberg, Open Knowledge Foundation
This session will focus on how digital tools can be used to explore and analyze spending data and budgetary
information, with a particular focus on data acquisition, data cleaning, and data visualization. It will start with a brisk
overview of several Open Knowledge Foundation projects which enable users to visually explore spending
information, including Where Does My Money Go? and Open Spending, and will explain the Foundation's vision and
roadmap for future work in this area. There will then be an opportunity for participants to discuss how they are
interested in using spending data, and to receive advice about tools and projects which may be relevant to them.
Data discovery and reuse - Jonathan Gray & Friedrich Lindenberg, Open Knowledge Foundation
How can advocates find and reuse datasets that are useful to them? This session will walk participants through the
process of identifying, acquiring, cleaning up and republishing information they need, with reference to a variety of
new tools and technologies that might be helpful along the way.
Open government data in your country - Jonathan Gray & Friedrich Lindenberg, Open Knowledge Foundation
This session will be an opportunity for participants to discuss laws, policies and practices related to accessing and
reusing public information in their country. Discussion will focus on opportunities for government or citizen driven
open government data initiatives.
Online Legislative Accountability - Ellen Miller & John Wonderlich, Sunlight Foundation
New websites and projects are bringing public scrutiny and reporting to the legislative process in a way that was never
possible before. Sunlight’s Ellen Miller and John Wonderlich will show tools they’ve helped create to track the US
Congress’s business as it is conducted, and also to the powerful influences applied to it. The presentation will explain
what is necessary in order to build such a site, and share Sunlight's experience in planning similar projects. To include:
OpenCongress.org, GovTrack.us, Congress and RTCongress (Mobile Apps), Sunlight Labs API, Expenditures Databases,
and ReadTheBill.org.
Government Spending Tracked - Ellen Miller & John Wonderlich, Sunlight Foundation
Government spending is increasingly being posted online, by governments and by NGOs alike. The Sunlight
Foundation has created and funded numerous projects to track government grants and contracts, and helped to
create accountable spending decisions, and evaluate failures in spending tracking systems. The presentation will
include how to approach the decision to develop a spending tracking site, and the potential benefits and pitfalls in
pursuing such a project. To include: FedSpending.org, USASpending.gov, ClearSpending.com, and Recovery.gov.
Geospatial tools and policy data - Aaron Presnall, Jefferson Institute
Maps can be powerful and participatory tools for telling complex stories buried in data, and for engaging your
community in that story. This workshop will walk through some highlights of the expanding universe of interactive
map visualization tools, and the Jefferson Institute's experiences using them.
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Links to useful resources
• Access Info Europe: http://www.access-info.org/
Toolkits: http://www.access-info.org/en/toolkits
• mySociety: http://www.mysociety.org/
Projects: (TheyWorkForYou, Mapumental, WhatDoTheyKnow, FixMyStreet, WriteToThem, etc.)
http://www.mysociety.org/projects/
mySociety in Central and Eastern Europe -- project blog: http://cee.mysociety.org
• Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
Where Does My Money Go? http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
• Sunlight Foundation: http://sunlightfoundation.com/

Projects: (Poligraft, Party Time, Clearspending, Influence Explorer, Checking Influence,
Transparency Data, etc.) http://sunlightfoundation.com/projects/
• Tactical Technology Cooperative: http://www.tacticaltech.org/
Toolkits: http://www.tacticaltech.org/toolkitsandguides
Maps for advocacy: http://bit.ly/dRzXVM (pdf)
Visualizing Information for Advocacy http://bit.ly/gzfJmA (pdf)
• Tony Bowden’s CEE blog: http://bit.ly/elOhL2
Agitprop Agogo -- An Abecedary of Civic Hackerdom: http://agitagogo.com/
• Links from Aaron Presnall
www.dataviz.org
www.patchworknation.org
www.soulofthecommunity.org
Local examples:
• Datanest Project of the Fair Play Alliance, http://datanest.fair-play.sk/pages/index
• Fix My Street, http://www.fixmystreet.com/
• http://www.odkazprestarostu.sk/
• www.altenergija.org
• http://dotankoch.sk/
• http://www.nasipolitici.cz
• Fruit Map http://www.fruitmap.sk/ (based on http://bit.ly/h3AQg6)
• Friend of a Friend http://foaf.sk/
Managing Think Tanks - Expanded Second Edition http://bit.ly/fvNUlV (pdf)
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Invited Experts Speakers and Resource People
Ellen Miller - Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/emiller/

Ellen S. Miller is the co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based, non-partisan
non-profit dedicated to using the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency.
She is the founder of two other prominent Washington-based organizations in the field of money and politics -- the
Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign -- and a nationally recognized expert on transparency and the
influence of money in politics. Her experience as a Washington advocate for more than 35 years spans the worlds of
non-profit advocacy, grassroots activism and journalism. Ms. Miller’s work has recently been featured in
Washingtonian Magazine (“100 Tech Titans,” May, 2009), Fast Company, (“The Most Influential Women in
Technology,” January, 2009), WIRED Magazine (“15 People The Next President Should Listen To,” October, 2008), The
Chronicle of Philanthropy (“Seeking Online Exposure,” January, 2008). Ms. Miller also served as Deputy Director of
Campaign for America's Future, the publisher of TomPaine.com and a senior fellow at The American Prospect. She
spent nearly a decade working on Capitol Hill. She blogs regularly at SunlightFoundation.com.
John Wonderlich - Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/jwonderlich/

John Wonderlich is the Policy Director for the Sunlight Foundation and one of the nation's foremost advocates for
open government. John spearheads Sunlight's goal of changing the government by opening up key data sources and
information, to make government more accountable to citizens. He is one of the foremost authorities on transparency
policy, from legislation and accountability in Congress to ethics and information policy in the executive branch.
Tony Bowden – mySociety http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmtmtm

Tony Bowden is the international agitator for mySociety, the UK-based organization that created TheyWorkForYou,
WhatDoTheyKnow, FixMyStreet, etc. His role is to encourage and enable other groups and individuals to build similar
transparency and accountability projects in their own countries, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
He has been building web sites since before Netscape existed, and founded several of Northern Ireland’s leading
internet companies before relocating to Estonia in 2006.
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Jonathan Gray - Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/about/people/

Jonathan Gray is Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. He studied Philosophy at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge University, Social Sciences at the Open University and is currently doing research in the German
department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is particularly interested in open government data, data
visualization and digital technologies in the humanities. More information can be found at jonathangray.org
Freidrich Lindenberg - Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/members/pudo/

Friedrich Lindenberg is a programmer working on open modes of governance and on government transparency. As an
active member of Liquid Democracy e.V., he has contributed to Adhocracy, a collaborative policy making platform.
Working with the Open Knowledge Foundation on data projects, he works on the OffenerHaushalt project, a portal on
German public spending and on CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network), a community-driven catalogue
for data packages. http://pudo.org/
Helen Darbishire - Access Info Europe http://www.access-info.org/en/who-we-are

Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, is a human rights professional specializing in access to
information, freedom of expression and media freedom. Helen has extensive experience of working to promote the
right to information globally, including by assisting drafting and promoting implementation of access to information
laws in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. She is a founder and current chair of the Freedom of Information Advocates
Network. Helen's human rights experience spans 20 years. She has worked with Article 19 (London and Paris, 1989-
1998) and the Open Society Institute (Budapest and New York, 1999-2005) and as a consultant with inter-
governmental organizations (including UNESCO, Council of Europe, OSCE, and World Bank). She has published and
lectured widely on freedom of expression, access to information, human rights and democratization. She holds a
degree in History and Philosophy of Science (Psychology and Philosophy) from the University of Durham, UK. She
speaks English, French and Spanish. Helen is based in Madrid, Spain.
Tom Longley - Tactical Technology Collective http://www.tacticaltech.org/team

Tom Longley is Tactical Technology Collective’s Program Lead for Visualizing Information for Advocacy. Tom's work
has focused on the documentation and analysis of large scale human rights violations and the effective use of
technology to aid this. Before joining Tactical Tech, Tom was project manager at Human Rights Information and
Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS), where he managed the development of the OpenEvSys rights violation
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database. He has extensive field work with NGOs in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Cambodia and others on the
investigation of human rights abuses and war crimes. He has also consulted for the University of Nottingham's Human
Rights Law Centre and the Open Society Institute Information Program.
Marek Tuszynski - Tactical Technology Collective http://www.tacticaltech.org/team

Marek Tuszynski is the Co-Founder and director of programs and technology at Tactical Technology Collective. Marek
has been working to help advocates use technology since 1995. In the mid-nineties he co-founded the International
Network of Contemporary Art Centers and worked with others to create a television program about independent
culture in Poland. He was director of the Stefan Batory Foundation’s Internet program (Warsaw), sat on the board of
Klon/Jawor (a research and infrastructure NGO) and The Second Hand Bank. Marek worked as a consultant to many
funding agencies focusing on information and communication strategies for civil society in Central Asia.
Aaron Presnall - Jefferson Institute http://www.dataviz.org/

Aaron Presnall, Director of Studies, Areas of Interest: Regulatory processes; informal economies; European transition
states; democratization; trade as an instrument of growth. Dr. Presnall is a political economist specializing in issues of
banking and telecommunications regulatory transition, and the roles of information and participatory politics in
regulatory outcomes. In addition to scholarly works and popular opinion pieces, he has written on the business and
political environment of Europe for the Economist Intelligence Unit, the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP), and numerous private and governmental organizations in Europe and the United States. He has an extensive
background in project development and management and has short and long term work experience in most countries
of Southeast and Central Eastern Europe. Before joining the Jefferson Institute, he served with the EastWest Institute
for seven years in Prague, then in Belgrade as EastWest’s Regional Director of Southeast Europe. He earned a Ph.D. in
Political Science from the University of Virginia. More information at http://www.jeffersoninst.org/blogs/aaron-
presnall.
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Think Tank Fund Sub-Board
Jacek Kucharczyk - Member of Think Tank Fund Sub-Board

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/thinktank/about
Jacek Kucharczyk is Research Director at the Institute of Public Affairs, one of Poland's leading policy institutes, and a
Board Member of the newly established European Partnership for Democracy (EDP) in Brussels. He is also one of the
founders of the Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS), an association of think tanks from Central and Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. He received his PhD in Sociology in 1999 from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of
the Polish Academy of Sciences. Prior to that, he was a fellow at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social
Research in New York (1994-1995). He also holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Kent at Canterbury and
an MA in English Studies from Warsaw University.
In the 1980s, Kucharczyk was active in Poland's underground student and publishing movement, and today he is the
author and editor of numerous policy briefs, articles, reports and books on democratic governance, foreign policy, EU
integration and transatlantic relations. His publications include: Bridges Across the Atlantic, Learning from the
experience of West-European think tanks, Democracy in Poland 2005-2007, and, most recently, Democracy's New
Champions. European Democracy Assistance after EU Enlargement. He also frequently comments on current domestic
and European affairs and political developments for Polish and international media.
The Organizing Team
Information Program Think Tank Fund

Janet Haven – Associate Program Director Goran Buldioski – Program Director,
Elizabeth Eagen – Program Officer Andrej Nosko – Senior Program Officer
Zsófia Révay – Program Assistant
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List of Participants and Observers1
Adrian Moraru, Deputy Director, covers areas such as political parties financing and electoral systems,
parliamentary monitoring. He also has a strong expertise in using data management tools for advoacy
purposes.
Institute for Public Policy, Romania, www.ipp.ro
Project name: City Budget Watch
Project type: Monitoring public finances and budgets
Link to mockup: http://www.ipp.ro/library/Sketch of the City Budget Watch website.pdf
Alfredo Azula, Communications Manager

PASOS, Czech Republic, http://www.pasos.org
Alina Gjika, Head of Urban Economics and Finance Unit

Co-Plan, Institute for Habitat Development, Albania, www.co-plan.org
Project name: Policy Research and Advocacy Strategy
Project type: It comes as a top down approach, in respond to the last three years effort, to design a
strategy for Policy Research and Advocacy, which will help the organization to do it in a more structured
and systematic way
Link to mockup: http://www.co-plan.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:pune-
kerkimore-dhe-politika-publike&catid=18:core-expertise&Itemid=18&lang=en and http://www.co-
plan.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:making-policies-work-program-for-applied-
policy-research&catid=19:aktive&Itemid=3&lang=en
Ana-Maria Mosneagu, President - writes proposals and coordinates projects

E-Civis, Romania, www.e-parlament.ro, www.freemoldova.eu
Project name: We hold you accountable
Project type: Transparency and accountability
Link to mockup: http://e-parlament.ro/varianta2/.
Arbër Gorani, Director of Research

Kosovar Stability Initiative (IKS), Kosovo, http://www.iksweb.org/
Project name: Political Landscape Database
Project type: Visualization of existing data
Link to mockup: http://iksweb.org/?cid=1,38
Asen Genov, Executive Director

Fourteenth January Foundation, Bulgaria, http://politikat.net
Project name: Civil Initiative for Hypocrisy Eradication
Link to mockup: http://politikat.net
1Information contained here is provided “as is” and comes from the application forms submitted to TTF, the text
has not been edited.
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Biljana Kotevska, Program Director, Human Rights Programme
Centre for Regional Policy Research and Cooperation 'Studiorum', Macedonia,
http://www.studiorum.org.mk/en/
Project name: In search of a National Human Rights Institution model - Reforming the institutional
framework for Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia
Link to mockup: http://www.wix.com/nmilevska/mock-up-website
Daniela Mineva, Research Fellow: contributes to research and proposal writing; responsible for web-site
management and media communication
Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria, www.csd.bg
Project name: Improving the accessibility of 1998-2010 data on corruption and hidden economy in Bulgaria
Link to mockup: http://www.csd.bg/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/Project_idea_scheme.pdf
Ellen Riotte, Program Manager

OSI Brussels, Belgium, http://www.soros.org/initiatives/brussels
Emsad Dizdarević, Researcher

Centre for Security Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, www.css.ba
Project name: Creation of interactive map of legal weapon in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Link to mockup: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49100105/Interactive-Map-of-Legal-Weapons-in-BiH
Eneli Mikko, Communication specialist

PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, ESTONIA, http://www.praxis.ee/index.php?id=5&L=1
Project name: Website for monitoring the politicians
Link to mockup: www.valitsejad.eu
Eric Barrett, IT Team Leader/Project Manager

OMC-J, Georgia, www.omc.ge
Project name: TbiliCity
Project type: Combining various types of information or information sources (putting data layers on maps,
searching across databases, cross-searching in public registries, etc.)
Link to mockup: mapspot.ge
Eva Vozarova, Datanest.sk project manager, manager for tech projects

Fair-play Alliance, Slovakia, http://www.fair-play.sk/index_en.php http://datanest.fair-play.sk
Project name: (a)greed
Project type: Access to public information
Link to mockup: http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/764/zmluva3.png
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1747/zmluva2.png
Gia Jandieri, Vice-president, external relations, research, policy advocacy

New Economic School of Georgia, Georgia, www.nesg.net
Project name: The Guide to the Public Expenditures
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Link to mockup: http://www.dataviz.org/, http://ime.bg/en/
Goran Tirak, Senior Analyst at Populari, also supervising team of researchers and running projects. Involved
in all activities associated with running an independent research institute including fund raising, project
development, liaison with donors, field research, r
Populari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, http://populari.org/eng/
Project name: Map the Gap
Link to mockup: http://populari.org/mapatest/
Gubad Bayramov, Manager of the «Research planning and communication» office

Economic Research Center, Azerbaijan Republic, www.erc-az.org
Project name: Visualization of existing data and strengthening advocacy strategy
Link to mockup: http://www.erc-az.org/new/view.php?lang=en&menu=23; http://erc-az.org/erc.png
Hristijan Risteski, Mr. Risteski is a Research and Administration Manager at the Center for Economic
Analyses – CEA. He has experience in socio-economic analyses and researches related to the economic
development of the country and economic and rural development of municipal
Center for Economic Analyses - CEA, Republic of Macedonia, www.http://cea.org.mk/index_eng.htm
Project name: LSG-DATA
Link to mockup: http://cea.org.mk/images/LSG-DATA0001.jpg
Iryna Solonenko, Director of the European Program

International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine,
http://www.irf.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9680:euro-desc-en&catid=144:pro-
euro-en&Itemid=180
Project name: Index of European Integration for the Eastern Partnership countries
Project type: Cmbination of data collection, its visualization and using it for reform advocacy
Link to mockup: We have no web-page for the project at the moment. We will aim at having a star or
spider for each of the 6 EaP countries with each ray of the star corresponding to different aspect of
European integration of each country.
Jakub Eberle, Executive Secretary / Researcher - The first part of the job includes strategic management of
the organization, communication with press (spokesperson) and project management of conferences,
publications and other projects. For the research part, the part
Association for International Affairs, Czech Republic, www.amo.cz
Project name: Czech Foreign Policy Monitor
Project type: Civic activism and participation
Link to mockup: http://www.amo.cz/editor/image/produkty1_soubory/czfpm.pdf
Jan Bartos, actualizing ivo.sk web pages, organizing events, book distribution
Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Slovakia, http://www.ivo.sk/106/en/home
Project name: Utilizing new formats on our website to display the results of our research work and gain
website feedback
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Link to mockup: http://www.ivo.sk/buxus/docs//rozne/IVOsk.pdf
Jana Korunovska, Researcher; also responsible for organizational development

Reactor - Research in Action, Macedonia, www.reactor.org.mk
Project name: The Cost of Modernization
Link to mockup: http://reactormkd.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/project-sketch-for-think-tank-fund-
capacity-building-event/
Jeton Mehmeti, Jeton is the program manager or social development unit at GAP. He works as a policy
analyst in social issues. He holds a MA in Public Policy from CEU and usually represents the organization in
international conferences.
Institute for Advanced Studies GAP, Kosovo, www.institutigap.org, www.gapmonitor.org
Project name: Visualizing the Kosovo Budget
Link to mockup: www.institutigap.org
Julia Keserű, Development director

K-Monitor Watchdog for Public Funds, Hungary, http://k-monitor.hu/index.html?plang=en
Project name: Who is who in spending the Hungarian public funds
Link to mockup: http://en.hazaitop.addig.hu/
Laura Bohantova, Public Relations Coordinator

Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS) “Viitorul”, Moldova, www.viitorul.org
Project name: Mapping of Moldovan local elections in 2011
Link to mockup: http://www.viitorul.org/public/3217/ro/sketch.jpg
Linda Austere, Policy researcher

PROVIDUS Centre for public policy, Latvia, http://www.providus.lv/public/index_en.html
Project name: (1) Vizualization of the workload of courts (2) The true face of structural reforms in public
administration
Link to mockup: http://ciparunieze.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/veselibas-ministrija.jpg
Marian Kisdurka, Project Manager, currently managing e-tools www.demagog.sk and

www.odkazprestarostu.sk
Slovak Governance Institute, Slovakia, www.governance.sk
Project name: Use Your Right to Know
Link to mockup: In terms of FOI project, we do not have a website yet. However, we do have it for two
other projects: www.demagog.sk and www.odkazprestarostu.sk
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Marin Lessenski, policy analyst
EuPI/European Policies Initiative, Bulgaria, http://eupi.osi.bg/
Marko Sošić, project coordinator, responsible for project coordination, engaged in research and analyses,
public relations and advocacy efforts
Institute Alternative, Montenegro, www.institut-alternativa.org
Project name: local budget figures database/ visualization
Link to mockup: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/europes_economies
Matej Kurian, Project Coordinator for IT, FoI-related projects

Transparency International Slovakia, Slovakia, http://www.transparency.sk/en/
Project name: Public Contracts Publication: Monitoring, Analysis and Public Control
Link to mockup: http://www.transparency.sk/TTF_Workshop_Sketch.pdf
Nina Iskandaryan, Planning Officer, in charge of project design and management, fundraising and
international cooperation
Caucasus Institute, Armenia, www.caucasusinstitute.org
Project name: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Placing Armenia in an International Development Context
Link to mockup: http://www.caucasusinstitute.org/?page_id=800
Petar Ganev, senior economist

Institute for Market Economics (IME), Bulgaria, http://ime.bg/en/
Project name: State expenditures revealed
Project type: Actualy it is all of the above mentioned
Link to mockup: http://ime.bg/bg/articles/publikacii-i-statii-ot-kampaniyata-na-ipi-razhodite-na-
bylgarskata-dyrjava/
Petra Burai, Head of Legal Affairs

Transparency International Hungary, Hungary, www.transprarency.hu
Project name: DECLARATIONS OF FINANCIAL INTEREST DATABASE
Link to mockup: to be followed
Petra Reszketo, executive partner, researcher

Budapest Institute, Hungary, http://www.budapestinstitute.eu/
Project name: Visualization of Hungarian Budget Data
Link to mockup: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1u0lfH_emxwXZaZTxF4mfaHqE2PMNzpecw1-
xtEZAl3U
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Tanja Pavlov, Programme Director develops strategic directions and programme of the organisation as a
member of the Management Team. She is also responsible for organisational development and capacity
building.
Group484, Serbia, www.grupa484.org.rs
Project name: Our Potential Potentially Ours
Link to mockup: http://www.grupa484.org.rs/images/stories/wireframe.jpg
Tarik Jusic, Vice-President / Director

Analtika - Center for Social Research, Bosnia and Herzegovina, www.analitika.ba
Project name: My Place - Accessing Local Government Data
Link to mockup: www.mojemjesto.ba
Tim Mcnaught, Project Manager

Center for Economic and Social Development, Azerbaijan, www.cesd.az
Project name: AzerEconomics - YouTube portal to the world of Azerbaijan economics
Link to mockup: http://www.youtube.com/user/AzerEconomics
Yevhen Shulha, Communications Associate

Razumkov Centre, Ukraine, razumkov.org.ua/eng/
Project name: The Church-State relations in Ukraine
Link to mockup: http://razumkov.org.ua/upload/prz_2011_Rlg_smll.pdf

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Description of Friday sessions: (continued on next page)

• Sunlight Foundation: http://sunlightfoundation.com/

Managing Think Tanks - Expanded Second Edition http://bit.ly/fvNUlV (pdf)

Ellen Miller - Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/emiller/

John Wonderlich - Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/jwonderlich/

Tony Bowden – mySociety http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmtmtm

Jonathan Gray - Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/about/people/

Freidrich Lindenberg - Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/members/pudo/

Helen Darbishire - Access Info Europe http://www.access-info.org/en/who-we-are

Tom Longley - Tactical Technology Collective http://www.tacticaltech.org/team

Marek Tuszynski - Tactical Technology Collective http://www.tacticaltech.org/team

Aaron Presnall - Jefferson Institute http://www.dataviz.org/

Jacek Kucharczyk - Member of Think Tank Fund Sub-Board

The Organizing Team

Information Program Think Tank Fund

Alfredo Azula, Communications Manager

Alina Gjika, Head of Urban Economics and Finance Unit

Ana-Maria Mosneagu, President - writes proposals and coordinates projects

Arbër Gorani, Director of Research

Asen Genov, Executive Director

Ellen Riotte, Program Manager

Emsad Dizdarević, Researcher

Eneli Mikko, Communication specialist

Eric Barrett, IT Team Leader/Project Manager

Eva Vozarova, Datanest.sk project manager, manager for tech projects

Gia Jandieri, Vice-president, external relations, research, policy advocacy

Gubad Bayramov, Manager of the «Research planning and communication» office

Iryna Solonenko, Director of the European Program

Jana Korunovska, Researcher; also responsible for organizational development

Julia Keserű, Development director

Laura Bohantova, Public Relations Coordinator

Linda Austere, Policy researcher

Marian Kisdurka, Project Manager, currently managing e-tools www.demagog.sk and

Matej Kurian, Project Coordinator for IT, FoI-related projects

Petar Ganev, senior economist

Petra Burai, Head of Legal Affairs

Petra Reszketo, executive partner, researcher

Tarik Jusic, Vice-President / Director

Tim Mcnaught, Project Manager

Yevhen Shulha, Communications Associate

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