Who owns Your Country?

About

What is the economic power structure of the private groups in your country? Who are the actors who accumulate the most power in this structure, and what is the relationship amongst them? What is the degree of influence of this invisible power structure, over government decisions in terms of development and economic policies? How does the State relate and feed this power structure and what are the counterparts of this relationship for the well being of society? It is with the objective to respond to these and other questions that we built the “Brazil’s Owners” Project and corresponding methodology.

„Who Owns your Country“ is a plugin for WordPress which uses the methodology developped by EITA (http://eita.org.br) and IMD (http://maisdemocracia.org.br) for the project „WHO OWNS BRAZIL“ (http://proprietariosdobrasil.org.br).

It connects enterprises, people and government’s ownership and revenue information to build Power Networks and a ranking of the most powerful actors in this constellation, allowing visitors to see the data in a variety of ways, including charts, factsheets and interactive network maps.

For more information on the methodology, visit http://proprietariosdobrasil.org.br/inicio/metodologia . We also have a paper about the methodology in English available at http://www.proprietariosdobrasil.org.br/tygel_who_owns_brazil.pdf

Contributions

We will be glad to collaborate with other actors who wish to use the plugin in their country and make it better. Don’t hesitate to join us in this common effort to contribute for a real democratic world, in which the economic powers are not directing the whole economy of the countries!

If you would like to send a question to us, just write to the support forum.

Translations

Who Owns Your Country is a fully internationalized (i.e. fully translateable) plugin.

If you would like to add a translation of the plugin to your language, you can do it online at our Translation platform: https://osx6cfk.oneskyapp.com/collaboration/project?id=6944.

If your language is not listed there, please send a message to us at contato@proprietariosdobrasil.org.br . We’ll immediately add your language for you to start translating.

Available languages

• English
• Brazilian Portuguese, by daniel tygel
• Portugal Portuguese, by daniel tygel