Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
- Logo
Secrecy for Sale is a multi-story exploration of data around the global offshore money maze
- URL
- http://www.icij.org/offshore
- Keywords
- database, tax havens, offshore leaks, finance, world, ICIJ,
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2012
- Launch Date
- 2013
- Most Recent Update
- 2014
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Finance
- Issue addressed
- Tax havens
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- yes
- Query
- yes
- Geographic Map
- yes
- Timelines
- Lists
- yes
- Network Visualisation
- Yes
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- yes
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 (US)
- 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),YLE (Finland)
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- International
- No ( followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- 41.4K
- Online Rank
- Google: 6 Alexa: 153,219 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 70/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 34/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: 7 Alexa: 153,219
- 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
- Legal action /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Large
- Team Experience
- Research
- Dedicated
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- No
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- Risky
- Sustainability Planning
- N/A
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/04/how-we-all-survived-likely-largest-collaboration-journalism-history
- Organise / Analyse Data
- http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/06/how-we-built-offshore-leaks-database
- Organise / Get Started
- http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/01/how-we-did-offshore-leaks-china
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Relational
- Ethical Collection
- N/A
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- Trained Collectors
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- N/A
- 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