How can we have a more transparent and accountable world where no one organisation be corrupted? There is an answer for that and it is both easy and difficult answer. It is easy: Make it Open<\/em> to everyone in Machine readable format! Let software developers, digital journalists\u00a0 play with the data. Stop to have secret contracts!\u00a0 Open Knowledge Foundation had already started Stop Secret Contracts compaing on February 2014 <\/a>and I blogged at Open Knowledge Swedens page\u00a0 <\/a>Open Knowledge Foundation started a\u00a0\u00a0 petition in 2014<\/a>. We also have\u00a0 a\u00a0 project website Stop Secret Contracts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Regarding company ownership it is not that difficult too , again make it open<\/em>. For example OpenCorporates.com<\/a> has a purpose to have a more transparent system with this purpose:<\/p>\n “OpenCorporates<\/a> exists to make information about companies and the corporate world more accessible, more discoverable, and more usable, and thus give citizens, community groups, journalists, other companies, and society as a whole the ability to understand, monitor and regulate them. ”<\/p>\n Lets be more specific for Sweden. If we look at Open Corporate Index<\/a> where it ranks how countries around the world allow company registration information to be publicly accessible, Sweden is Number 9!<\/p>\n If we go to details we can see why Sweden got 50!<\/p>\n As\u00a0 I said, if we want to stop corruption the answer is simple: Make all agreements & deals\u00a0 Open Data! Then now you might wonder what is difficult then? It is our mentality, the way we see politics. Politics is usually behind closed doors where some elite people decide what we should select among the things they think we should select and they want to decide what we should know or should not know. It is the mentality problem that we face now. For sure, we will talk transparency and accountability for FIFA for certain period of time but again, if we will not be persistent, all will be forgotten and the history will repeat itself.<\/p>\n If you care about transparency and accountability please support the campaign and tweet with hashtag #SecretContracts.<\/p>\n References: https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/info\/principles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are well aware that world woke up to a FIFA scandal when the United States indicted 14 people, including nine top FIFA officials, on corruption charges end of May 2015.\u00a0 This raises an important question: How can we stop … Continue reading ![\"open](\"http:\/\/serdartemiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/open-corporates-index-1024x1024.png\")
<\/a> You may think it is a good ranking but Sweden’s grade is not high! With 50\/100 as grade of Sweden, Romania (70\/100) is above\u00a0 Sweden, and Sweden is at the same ranking with Belgium. Both of these countries are just above Ireland, Russia and Serbia ( I can guess you are surprised when you heard Russia and Serbia!)<\/p>\n![\"Ranking](\"http:\/\/serdartemiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ranking-Sweden-Open-Corporates.png\")
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