Monitoring non-state actors*actors having meaningful influence over political, social and

economic matters of the state

Karolis Granickas |Transparency International Lithuania | karolis@transparency.lt

Media context in Lithuania

• Media ownership – there is no legal constraints as to media ownership concentration in Lithuania;

• The ownership networks are complex and inaccessible;

• The reporting and public disclosure is poor;• Trust in media fell from ±90% in nineties to ±20%

nowadays• + our neighbor’s (un)predictability (we’re talking

defense here)

Who are stakeholders here?

• Government

• People

• Our organization and the rest of the NGO sector

• The key question: how data, technology and advocacy can re-shape the situation?

Our response

Based on media ownership data, we show who owns the internet portals, TV & radio stations, new agencies and printed media outlets since 1996

Stakeholder 1: Government

• Initiated a discussion on data provision;

• Issued five open data principles to the Government;

• Achievement: Ministry of Culture initiated a procurement for a new system which will reorganize gathering and provision of data

Stakeholder 2: People

Also..how to read an article?

Is the job done then?

Data/tool (transparency)

Re-use (participation)

Accountability and public

control

What did we change?

Lessons: contextualization

• Contextualization: www.manoseimas.ltexperiment

• Contextualization: further work with www.stirna.info

Lessons: partnerships.

User-centered design as an example of a complexity of our

work.