Three Charts - the-engine-room/Malawi-Replication GitHub Wiki

###What We Have Now

  • FlexiCadastre focussing on solid minerals.
  • No mining department website
  • Access to digital info/data - very limited

Data

  • Company names
  • License types
  • Mineral types
  • Geodata
  • Some FIA reports
  • Some contracts
  • Some company ownership info
  • Some revenue data (scoping study_
  • Production data

Media

  • links with journalists

  • informal dissemination of info (blogs & social media)

  • Networks (Tax Justice, PWYP, NRJN, MSG(EITI))

  • MSGs interest in beneficial ownership

  • Strong working relationship with government

  • Limited tech capacity

  • Early Stage tech facility

  • International networks of Oxfam, NC, ActionAid

  • Relationship with donors GIZ, DFID, AMDC

###What We Want to Achieve

  • To have data available for policy making.
  • Transparency in the EI Sector
    • Oil and gas
    • Precious stones/ gemstones
  • To make data available to journalists (publish stories)
  • Evidence to filter speculations
  • Evidence to hold companies and government accountable
  • Evidence to make companies accountable to their environmental and social commitments.
  • Comprehensive view on beneficial ownership for investigations. Identifying interest groups.
  • Breakdown "cartels" (raise legal concerns)

###Aspirations

  • Documents to access on website
    • Contracts for licenses
    • EIA reports
    • Licenses
  • ?
  • Search by company
    • owners
    • address
    • description of the company
  • NGO of civil society documentation of companies
  • Media related coverage
  • Transparency Index of companies
  • Visualize info from EITI report
  • Visualize production information
  • Data sources (consolidate/link)
  • Mineral types
  • Citizen participation (how? social media? crowdsourcing?)