At QuiénEsQuién.Wiki we use data provided by government and stock market entities, or data that has been thoroughly investigated by Civil Society Organizations. Our priorities when importing data are:
“In 57% of the international corruption cases prosecuted under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, bribes were paid to obtain public contracts,” explains the Open Contracting Partnership. The transfer of capital from the public sector to private enterprise, while necessary for the way our societies function, is one of the spaces where state capture shows itself in sophisticated ways: corruption, bribery, tailor-made contracts, rigged tenders and fraud, among other crimes.
“There is a wide range of sectors (financial, banking, real estate, etc.) [..that...] have different legal structures to hide their beneficiaries (multilateral funds, non-financial agents (DNFBPs), legal representatives and consultants, among others) who, beyond exercising direct control over the company, are transmission belts for those who make decisions and benefit from a corporate vehicle,” explain Anna Ma. Nunenmann and Oscar Pineda in PODER's report “Beneficiarios Reales en México”.
PODER's investigations are in many cases data-driven or aimed at achieving an exhaustive mapping of a specific case. Part of our methodology is to record this data in a spreadsheet and then import it. This process helps us both to increase the depth of QuiénEsQuién.Wiki and to extract the data from the API and build the visualization.
If you know of a database on contracts or beneficial owners that we are not using, write to us at [email protected] and we will add it to our (very long) list of datasets to import.
The data we collect comes in multiple schemas. To avoid creating yet another data schema, we chose to systematize everything into our own schema that combines the two main standards used by the open data community in Latin America.
Popolo Project is a standard originally designed to record public institutions and politicians. With minimal changes we were able to use its system logic of people, organizations and memberships for the private sector.
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is an open data schema promoted by the Open Contracting Partnership for publishing structured information on all stages of a procurement process: from planning to implementation. QuiénEsQuién.Wiki makes its own use of the standard, adding and creating extensions, which can be consulted on our Github.