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Technology and Transparency New Tools, New Expectations November 14, 2014 John Kaehny Executive Director, Reinvent Albany Co-Chair, NYC Transparency Working Group @ReinventAlbany info@reinventalbany.org reinventalbany.org AND nyctwg.org NYC

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Technology and Transparency

New Tools, New Expectations November 14, 2014

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John Kaehny

info@reinventalbany.org @ReinventAlbany reinventalbany.org AND nyctwg.org

Executive Director, Reinvent Albany Co-Chair, NYC Transparency Working Group

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NYC Transparency Working Group

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Government Transparency

The expectation that the government shows the public and other branches of government what it is spending, planning and doing, what it knows, and that political contributions and actions to influence voting are visible to the public.

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Information and Technology

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Open Data

Online
Easy to Find
Downloadable
Machine-Readable
Timely
Reusable without

restriction or cost.

Available via API, RSS,  
r bulk download.

The expectation that government digital information will be:

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Machine-Readable

Tabular data (numbers) is published in a CSV or Excel-compatible format. Geospatial data is in commonly-mappable formats like Shapefiles and KML.

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Open New York

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NYS Open Budget

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Political Contributions, Lobbying, and Ethics Disclosure

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NYC Campaign Finance Board

Campaign Contributions downloadable in CSV format.

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NY Open Government

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Linking Spending to Bills

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Government Spending and Procurement

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Spend Side Transparency

Budget Data
Contract / Procurement data
State Authorities
Grants
Real Estate Transactions
Tax Credits / Exemptions
Charities

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State Authorities

MTA
Power Authority
Thruway Authority
Combined:

$50 Billion annual spending 150K employees

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Economic Development Subsidies

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The Center for Public Integrity attempts to identify specific areas of corruption risk with a 330 question survey as part of their State Integrity Initiative.

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A Failing Grade

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Perceived Corruption Risk

1. Local IDAs. 2. Real estate development permitting. 3. Business tax credits. (Fastest growing part of state budget.) 4. Affordable housing subsidies. 5. Highly regulated industries: gambling and fracking. 6. Authority subsidies to businesses. (Real estate, power.) 7. Charities which receive government contracts. 8. Labor contracts and pension sweeteners. 9. Authority procurement.

10. You name it, New

York has thought of it.

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Corruption Risk

1. LLC’s with anonymous

beneficial owners.

2. Business tax credits going

to anonymous recipients.

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What we can’t see online

1. Recipients of business tax credits 2. Details of legislative MOU (Pork) 3. LLCs’ beneficial owners 4. Subcontractors on state contracts 5. Contract deliverables and work

rders.

6. Database of charity data. 7. State Corporation database 8. What lobbyists are lobbying for and against 9. Details on scoring for many economic dev. grants

10. Machine readable ethics

disclosure forms

11. Timely, complete, open data
n local IDA activity

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Erosion

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