Subj: [corp-watchers] Announcing Crocodyl, Corpwatch's New Collaborative Research Project Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:27:56 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH Holding Corporations Accountable << http://www.corpwatch.org >>
CorpWatch would like to offer a sneak preview of our most recent project to our loyal members before we announce it more broadly. Crocodyl (a creative acronym for Collaborative Research on Corporations) started in beta about three months ago and we are now preparing to launch our outreach strategy. We want to give CorpWatch subscribers a chance to create a login and try it out, perhaps creating a company profile (you get a byline) or reading up on one of the companies in our database. Let us know what you think, if you want to participate, or what we can do to make it a better corporate accountability tool. Crocodyl.com is a collaborative research project to profile transnational corporations, instigated by CorpWatch and working with partner organizations such as Center for Corporate Policy and the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First. Together, we are building a free and open source database of corporate profiles to provide information for activists, journalists, researchers, government officials and others interested in improved scrutiny of corporations. If you would like to join us in holding corporations accountable, all you have to do is visit Crocodyl.com and create an account to publish your research. Our current project is to create stub profiles the Global Fortune 500, but the list of target companies that is linked from the homepage is where the majority of our best work is taking place so far. A few examples are: Total S.A. http://www.crocodyl.com/wiki/total_s_a Roche Group http://www.crocodyl.com/wiki/Roche_Group You can also add a new company to the database and we can guide you through the process. If you are strapped for time but would still like to publish research, we would be happy to train interns or anyone who wants to learn the basics of corporate research. Crocodyl.com is a hybrid-wiki, which means that anyone can write, edit, or copy the company profiles on the site, provided they create an account. In order to provide a balance of perspectives and expertise, as well as benefit from first-hand information from countries where multinational corporations operate, we are creating an international team of editors and researchers from groups including Focus on the Global South, Corporate Europe Observatory and others. We invite others to join the editing team, give us feedback and/or directly contribute to the site, as you see fit. All of our research is in the public domain, and we aim to feed information to campaigners and other corporate researchers with the goal of creating a living history of corporations, mitigating the impact of institutional memory loss that sometimes afflicts the nonprofit sector. For information on our monthly telephone and online seminars, or for an introduction and walk through contact Ian Elwood at 510 271 8080 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join the Crocodyl listserv and participate in the conversation, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Online at www.crocodyl.com Support Corpwatch's work to hold corporations accountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice issues through investigative journalism, education and activism. Help us bring the critical information and resources that tens of thousands of you access every month by making a contribution to CorpWatch. http://www.corpwatch.org/donate =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CorpWatch -- Holding Corporations Accountable 1611 Telegraph Ave, Suite 720 Oakland, CA 94612 USA Tel: 510-271-8080 Fax: 510-271-8083 URL: http://www.corpwatch.org Also check out http://www.warprofiteers.com! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
