Lena Zúñiga

During the last year I’ve been working at CorpWatch with a fantastic group of developers and researchers on the CrocTail project. The name came to us only a few days before the launch in September 2009: it was know as the EDGAR project when we got funding from the Sunlight Foundation after presenting the idea at Netsquared 2008.

CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their many foreign and domestic subsidiaries. Information from company Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings has been parsed and annotated by CorpWatch to highlight specific corporate accountability issues. CrocTail also serves as a demonstration of the features and data available through the CorpWatch API. Skye, one of the developers, has a great blog post with video visualizations of how corporate structures change over time.

This project is an extension of the Crocodyl.org Wiki, an online compendium profiling the accountability and transparency track records of multinational corporations. I’ve been managing and editing Crocodyl as part of my work in Corpwatch.

A partir de Noviembre estaré trabajando con Corpwatch.org coordinando el proyecto Crocodyl.org. Crocodyl es un sitio wiki para la investigación colaborativa sobre corporaciones. Colaboradores en diferentes partes del mundo escriben sobre temas de Derechos Humanos, corrupción, impacto ambiental y prácticas laborales de las corporaciones. En el próximo año, Crocodyl incluirá nuevos elementos tales como datos de empresas subsidiarias, un proyecto que fue presentado en Netsquared 2008.

Since November 2008 I’ve been working with Corpwatch.org as a Project Coordinator for Crocodyl.org. Crocodyl is a wiki site for collaborative research on corporations. A group of researchers and collaborators around the world writes about human rights, corruption cases, labor and environmental practices of corporations. Next year, Crocodyl will go through a re-design and the implementation of new elements, such as subsidiary data extracted from government databases. This project was presented during Netsquared in 2008.