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On 16 Jul 2017, at 14:14, Michael Oghia <<a href="mailto:mike.oghia@gmail.com">mike.oghia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Thanks for sharing this. I agree that it's odd they don't since they are an organization advocating for accountability – it is counterintuitive at best. Either way, thanks for investigating. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 3:04 PM, parminder <span dir="ltr">
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<p><font face="Verdana">This is my recent exchange with the head of Campaign for Accountability. I tell him clearly that their policy of non disclosure of their donors is not at all fine. They do not explain why they do not disclose their funders.. parminder
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<p><font face="Verdana">Thanks Dan for your prompt response. It is much appreciated.
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<p><font face="Verdana">While I still think it is useful to divulge donors, especially for this kind of work, I do greatly value your work. Best wishes for it. Meanwhile I will like to have your permission to share the below email from you on the public elist
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<div class="m_7067951079241140790moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 15 July 2017 06:10 PM, Daniel Stevens wrote:<br>
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<p>Thanks for contacting us about our work. CfA does not disclose its donors. <span>We think our work speaks for itself. Over the past 18 months, the Google Transparency Project has documented more than 425 White House meetings by Google lobbyists, 250 revolving
door hires between Google and government and more than 325 academic papers paid for by the company to help advance its policy interests. All of the underlying data is published on the site, along with more than 40,000 pages of Google emails with US government
officials. The data in the report has also been subject to analysis by The Wall Street Journal, which cited the data in its own investigative article today.</span></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Dear Madam/ Sir</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">I think you do great work. But it looks more than a tad odd that an organisation that seeks, and so actively too, accountability in public life itself does not publish its annual report and funding sources on its
website. I am sure it must just have been an oversight, but will you be able to share your annual funding statement with me. Thanks.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Let me tell you the background of this request. I posted on an Internet governance e-list the coverage of your story on how Google funds so many academic reports in Internet policy space. A useful discussion ensued.
But someone pointed out that CfA itself does not publicly disclose its funding sources. I agreed it was odd that it doesnt.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">If you indeed are able to share your funding statement I will inform all the skeptics of this fact. I myself work with an NGO and some global civil society networks, and publishing our funding sources is considered
a simple necessity to have any credibility in this area. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Thanks, for your great work, and look forward to an early response.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Best regards</p>
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