Panama Papers, or How To Coordinate a Secret in the Digital Age
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A vast network of investigative reporters collaborated on a global scale to dive into the financial documents known as the Panama Papers. It took months to sift through the 11.5 million leaked documents. We’ll look at how the data were organized, how such a large, global project was kept secret, and get insights into how reporters started shaping their ongoing stories.
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Panama Papers, or How To Coordinate a Secret in the Digital Age
- 1. Panama Papers, or How To Coordinate a Secret in the Digital Age Justin Arenstein, Code for Africa, @justinarenstein Emilia Díaz-Struck, ICIJ, @ICIJorg Anant Goenka, Indian Express, @anantgoenka Moderator: Patrick Butler, ICFJ, @pbutler50 September 15, 2016 #ONA16Panama
- 11. +370 journalists +100 media 76 countries
- 12. #panamapapers
- 15. Needs? Innovating while collaborating The “Watergate-type reporter” Investigated the President (Paraguay) The developer Knows all about data (France) Skills
- 20. The audience
- 24. @JustinArenstein GIVING CITIZENS ACTIONABLE INFORMATION
- 25. Pan-African Federation Federation of investigative newsrooms in 18 countries and civic tech labs in: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- 26. 90+ Projects From camera drones & air/water sensors, to citizen reporter apps, fact-checking & forensic data analysis tools, data visualization & geo-narrative platforms.
- 27. Investigative Focus Investigative journalism need to be about more than just journalistic ego. To win real mass support, it needs to tackle the issues that keep citizens awake at night.
- 28. Create ‘Backend’ Building Blocks We lower the barrier for watchdog media to adopt tech tools by building ‘lego’-like components to power the backend of their newsrooms or investigations. https://investigativedashboard.org/http://granoproject.org/ https://afrileaks.org/
- 29. David & Goliath Best way to prove #FollowTheMoney potential is to slay giants. Our previous work with ICIJ, helped trigger reforms at the World Bank and corporate reviews of Australian mining companies. https://panamapapers.investigativecenters.org/http://bit.ly/AbandonedEvicted
- 30. Tackling Organised Crime Government is not automatically the enemy. We deliberately shine a light on sectors others shy away from: global corporates + organised crime. http://bit.ly/MafiaCorrectiv http://doubleoffshore.org/
- 31. Data Liberation Technology is however just a tool. The real ‘feedstock’ is information, which is almost always locked up in ‘deadwood’ documentation.
- 32. Entity Extraction We systematically digitise everything from court records, to company & land registers, to gov Gazettes & contracts, to media reportage & NGO / academic research … and then we mine the data. https://sourceAFRICA.net/
- 33. Machine Readable Structured Data Documents and data alone are useless. Data must be automatically machine readable, and API accessible to be meaningful .. which openAFRICA.net does. https://openAFRICA.net/
- 34. Joining The Dots The relationships between people and companies and other entities is where real knowledge lies. We build tools to help automate this, on a massive scale. http://connectedAFRICA.org/
- 35. Finding Hidden Stories http://bit.ly/MozBigShots analyses who really owns Mozambique’s mineral wealth & is an example of what’s possible simply by digitising Government Gazettes.
- 36. Watchlists & Leads Aleph (part of Grano) takes this one step further, by integrating global investigative watchlists, with in-house African intel, to create realtime “Google Alerts” for investigators.
- 37. Academic Peer Review Journalism & advocacy alone seldom give legislators enough to act on. We therefore also tap into peer-reviewed academic research, supporting special ‘pop up’ think tanks, which help spark Parliamentary hearings. http://thestudyofvalue.org/publications/#4
- 38. Investigative Technologies #PanamaPapers proves there is actionable data in Africa. Our breakthroughs came when we compared the leaked data with local corporate / land / court data. https://panamapapers.investigativecenters.org/