Publish What You Pay campaigns for a world where all citizens benefit from their natural resources, today and tomorrow. We believe that increasing transparency in the extractive sector will enable citizens to hold governments and companies to account for the ways in which natural resources are managed. Our mission is for a more transparent and accountable extractive sector, that enables citizens to have a say over whether their resources are extracted, how they are extracted and how their extractive revenues are spent.
The Media and Democracy Coalition is a collaboration of 25 local and national organizations committed to amplifying the voices of the public in shaping media and telecommunications policy.
There are two categories of oversight projects * Govt Oversight - those that oversee specific governmental bodies. As a COPs panelist, you will become a fixture at the meetings of a particular board, council, or other body, or providing oversight to specific elected officials. Read Govt Oversight to learn how to find an appropriate governmental body to oversee. * Issue Oversight - those that oversee specific political issues or development projects, such as to oversee specific outsourced contracts, work that would normally be done by governmental institutions, but for some reason contracted out to the lowest bidder, or perhaps to a friend or campaign contributor, you know how it works.
Led by local attorney Art Neill and media activist Mera Szendro Bok, New Media Rights (newmediarights.org) provides pro-bono legal advice, free production-studio resources and organizes networking events—including Drumbeat, a February event sponsored by Mozilla, where Open San Diego, Cops and InstantIMPACT each held workshops and discussions.