Attendees

Pratap - CorpWatch
Amanda - Journalism school
Dana - Occupy Tech NYC
John - Revenue Watch Institute - Human Rights Watch
Brian - Financial consulting (?)
Austin - Occupy (NYC) - Anti-Gentrification Campaign / Power mapping / LittleSis.org
Jenny - Occupy / Sudo Room Oakland hackerspace
Matt - How to organize useful information?
Maryam - Used to work for Oracle, business auditing. How to make tech more accessible / how to use big data in a beneficial way
Marc - NNDB.com (Notable Names Database) - 10 people over 6 years - mapper.nndb - fundraising
Kelly - Little data / quantified self projects;
Jordan - Works w/ Aspiration Tech
Tom - sudo room
Graham - web dev

Existing Projects

Third Rail Economy Series - Network visualization of Coke industries (map of subsidiaries)
SourceWatch (esp. ALEC org)
CrocTail
OpenCorporate API
CitizenAudit.org
Sunlight
Open Secrets
Lil Sis
GoodGuide (can be reverse engineered)
Pro Publica (has some 990 stuff)
Bloomberg
MuckRuck (facilitates FOIA requests)

Bloomberg knows, but it's too expensive
Why? Reduce enviromental impact, improve labor situations
Naming and shaming
Litigation - lawyers depend on good data, which is hard to get to
The importance of storytelling / framing
Direct action targeting - more communication between research & direct action (eg; occupy a particular vacant lot owned by the most greedy real$
Map of the military-industrial complex around the Gulf War
Strike Debt Rolling Jubilee