Wikidata contains many gaps in its political data. We’ve built a tool to change that Introducing PoliLoom: our new crowdsourcing tool that breaks common data collection tasks into fun, five-minute contributions. Come and help us track who’s running the world.

🌎️ Meet #PoliLoom - our tool that makes it easier to contribute to our #EveryPolitician project:

➡️ It scans #Wikidata + #Wikipedia
➡️ Finds missing data on politicians
➡️ Turns it into quick 5min tasks anyone can do

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As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power We’re on a mission to track who runs the world — and to make political data more transparent.

📢 ICYMI: We recently launched the Beta version of #EveryPolitician, a global #database of political officeholders. Read all about it - or come and help us make it better ➡️ www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

US Medicaid Exclusions - Going State by State Over the past few months, we've integrated a new group of sources: US state-level Medicaid exclusion lists. They detail entities that have been barred from participating in Medicaid programs due to…

Here at #OpenSanctions, the release will bring clarity to our #Medicaid data, which includes entities that have been barred from participating in programs due to misconduct, fraud, or other violations (3/3) ➡️ www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

BrightQuery OpenData.org BrightQuery OpenData.org provides firmographic and legal entity level information for millions of US organizations, enabling enriched organization profiles.

🕸️ It provides a more complete view of the US business ecosystem & the complex relationships within it. We've also integrated BrightQuery IDs into our data to enrich it with corporate family structures, legal status, headcount, revenue & more (2/3) ➡️  www.opensanctions.org/datasets/bri...

🎉 It’s a good day for the open posse! BrightQuery's #OpenData has teamed up with Senzing to release a comprehensive U.S. dataset containing 86 million organisations, available in #Senzing-ready JSON format. (1/3) ➡️ opendata.org

OpenSanctions on Transparent, Open-Source Sanctions Data 21 Analytics interviews OpenSanctions' founder Friedrich Lindenberg on open-source sanctions and PEP data, transparency, and modern compliance.

Our founder @pudo.org recently spoke to 21 Analytics about our #opensource & #investigative DNA and why transparency matters in today's compliance world. Read all about it ➡️ www.21analytics.co/blog/opensan...

As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power We’re on a mission to track who runs the world — and to make political data more transparent.

🌎 Meet the beta of EveryPolitician: a global database of nearly 700,000 political officeholders, from rulers and lawmakers to judges and more. Built to empower citizens, journalists & researchers to hold governments accountable.

Blog post: tinyurl.com/ytdvz6rw

Check it out! everypolitician.org

Work in progress, find #opensanctions entities, people or orgs in #telegram data , for example this russian propaganda : t.me/olegtsarov/3... @opensanctions.org

OpenSanctions and Quantifind join forces to deliver sanctions risk prevention tech We partner with Quantifind to serve high-quality and transparent sanctions data to compliance teams via their AI-powered risk intelligence platform GraphyteTM.

OpenSanctions ↔️ Quantifind: smarter sanctions screening. Learn how our dataset now powers Quantifind’s Graphyte platform. New blog 👉 www.opensanctions.org/articles/202... #RegTech #AML

Announcing FollowTheMoney 4.0 This week, we are releasing version 4.0 of the FollowTheMoney (FtM) toolchain.

We’ve published an updated, improved and more deeply documented version of the data model and core data validation stack that drives OpenSanctions. Read more on our blog: www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

More than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening In many fields, a name is just one of many clues you can lean on to pin down an identity. But in sanctions screening, a name might be all you’ve got. This is one of the core parts of our work: matchin...

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What makes the handling of names in entity resolution so hard? Cultural complexity.

Recent hobby: building up extensive reference data for name matching, including a database of company type filler words, and all human names from Wikidata. Check the open data assets here: opensanctions.github.io/rigour/data/

PoliLoom – Loom for weaving politician's data PoliLoom Hey there OpenSanctions community! I’m Johan. Friedrich asked me to have a go at some data extraction, and share the development process here, so let’s dive into it together. We’re about to ...

Weaving politician metadata with LLMs: PoliLoom aims to extract & enrich Wikidata entries for politicians via OpenAI’s structured data API. Explore schema, multilingual handling & conflict resolution.

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