1. 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

2. 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)

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

6. Stakeholder 2: People

7. Also..how to read an article?

8. Is the job done then?
Data/tool
(transparency)
Re-use
(participation)
Accountability
and public
control
What did we change?

9. Lessons: contextualization
• Contextualization: www.manoseimas.lt
experiment
• Contextualization: further work with
www.stirna.info

10. Lessons: partnerships.
User-centered design as an example of a complexity of our
work.