Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze

	Secrecy for Sale is a multi-story exploration of data around the global offshore money maze
Home page	http://www.icij.org/offshore
Approach	ICIJ released the offshore leaks in partnership with more than 20 media all around the world and gathered a myriad of stories, web apps, video reports and analyses stemming from the leaks release. Furthermore, the ICIJ and La Nación teams reverse engineered the offshore leaks data to create a linked, searchable database of off-shore companies, enabling anyone to browse through it and to uncover new stories.
Phase	Released
Tags	database, tax havens, offshore leaks, finance, world, and ICIJ
Practices	Plan
Partners	Asahi (Japan), BBC Panorama (UK), CBC (Canada), Commonwealth Magazine (Taiwan), DR (Denmark), El Confidencial (Spain), El País (Spain), Fokus (Sweden), Korean Center for Investigative Journalism (Korea), Kyiv Post (Ukraine), L'espresso (Italy), Le Matin Dimanche and SonntagsZeitung (Switzerland), Le Monde (France), Le Soir(Belgium), Ming Pao (Hong Kong), Norddeutscher Rundfunk(Germany), Novaya Gazeta(Russia), La Nación (Costa Rica), Premium Times(Nigeria), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Azerbaijan), Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Ta Nea (Greece), The Global Mail (Australia), The Guardian (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The New York Times (USA), The Washington Post (USA), Trouw (Netherlands), and YLE (Finland)

Project Start Date	2012
Launch Date	2013
Most Recent Update	2014
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Finance
Issue addressed	Tax havens
Geographic Focus	World

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Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	The database contains ownership information about companies created in 10 offshore jurisdictions including the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and Singapore. It covers nearly 30 years until 2010.
Approach (How?)	ICIJ released the offshore leaks in partnership with more than 20 media all around the world and gathered a myriad of stories, web apps, video reports and analyses stemming from the leaks release. Furthermore, the ICIJ and La Nación teams reverse engineered the offshore leaks data to create a linked, searchable database of off-shore companies, enabling anyone to browse through it and to uncover new stories.
Language	English
Commissioner	International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, Center for Public Integrity
Publisher	ICIJ

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : International Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : 41.4K Online Rank : Google: 6 Alexa: 153219 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 70/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 34/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Very High Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : ‘Offshore Leaks’ Revelations Force Resignation of Top European Banker (source: http://www.icij.org/offshore/offshore-leaks-revelations-force-resignation-top-european-banker) | Tax Authorities Move on Leaked Offshore Documents (source:http://www.icij.org/offshore/tax-authorities-move-leaked-offshore-documents) Last updated : 22/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /

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Team

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Team Size : Large Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Dedicated Design : Dedicated

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Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : false Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : Risky Sustainability Planning :

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Practices

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Data Modeling : Relational Ethical Collection : Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Data Cleaning : Expert Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Detailed Data Licensing : Public Ethical Publishing : Anonymization of datasets Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Dump