Topic: Follow the Money and the T-Index: Mapping Political Power and Hidden Networks with BridgeGap
Date: 9 December 2024
Time: 14:00-15.00 CET
Where: Online
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_koNP2uXFSOe8SibxFvf17w
Join us for this special webinar organized under the Horizon Europe project BridgeGap, a key initiative driving innovative research and tools to combat corruption, enhance transparency, and promote good governance. In celebration of International Anti-Corruption Day, this event showcases two groundbreaking platforms—Follow the Money and the T-Index—that are reshaping the global fight against corruption, both further enhanced in the BridgeGap project.
About the Tools
Follow the Money is a cutting-edge tool supported by BridgeGap that traces financial flows, unmasks hidden networks, and analyzes complex webs of influence. By integrating data from 292 sources—including corporate registries, financial statements, court rulings, and international databases—it enables users to map cross-jurisdictional relationships, identify hidden beneficiaries, assess financial risks, and detect fraud or money laundering. Covering over 85 million companies and 77 million individuals globally, its intuitive visualizations transform intricate datasets into actionable insights for researchers, journalists, and compliance professionals combating corruption worldwide. Read more.
The Transparency-Index (T-Index), introduces the first-ever comprehensive measurement of legal and operational transparency, currently covering 143 governments. The T-Index identifies gaps in policy implementation, facilitates cross-country comparisons, and provides a roadmap for the implementation of effective transparency policies. This initiative is the product of a collaborative crowdsourcing effort. In 2024, more than 60 public and private organizations contributed to creating a comprehensive picture of global transparency and establishing benchmarks to guide future improvements and government reform.
Featured Speakers
- Prof. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi – Comparative Public Policy at the Department of Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli and Principal Investigator of BridgeGap
- Mykhailo Koltsov – Head of Learning and Development Department at YouControl, presenting Follow the Money platform for tracing financial flows and mapping networks of influence.
- Noé Letourneaux – ERCAS consultant, presenting T-Index, the cutting-edge measurement of real (de facto) transparency and its implementation globally.
What You’ll Learn:
- Follow the Money: A tool for mapping relationships between businesses, individuals, and assets, uncovering hidden beneficiaries, and detecting financial irregularities.
- T-Index: The first-ever international measurement of real transparency, evaluating de facto practices rather than legal provisions, enabling benchmarks for reform, and driving policy-relevant research.
- How these tools, enhanced and used by BridgeGap researchers, complement each other to expose corruption networks and promote global accountability.
- Real-world examples
Why Attend?
- Whether you’re a journalist, researcher, activist, or policy professional, this webinar provides practical tools and strategies to enhance transparency and accountability in your work.
Register now to join this impactful event and help make the world more transparent!