Politikus
Joined up data using BODS, OCDS and Popolo-Spe

Politikus

published Aug 22, 2025 , last modified Apr 10, 2026

Politikus is an open data and and open data standards active research project to track positions held of politically exposed persons of elected representatives, senior public officials and their known associates and relationships, their beneficial ownership and interests, as well as positions and involvement in corruption issues

Project Summary
Start Date 2020-02-24
End Date

Politikus is a a project to track positions held of politically exposed persons of elected representatives, senior public officials and their known associates and relationships. It also track the positions and involvement of these people and organizations to various issues related to corruption and mismanagement. It consists of a reusable open source content management platform built on open data standards which was originally deployed for Procurement Stories Portal for Kenya. It is also used for Malaysia, as an open data platform to store information and data in Popolo-spec (replacing Popit), but also contracts using Open Contracting Data Standard and Beneficial Ownership. The platform can also be used internally as a collaborative database for joint research and investigations.

Activities
Activity Type Status
Events
SEA-ACN: Open Data on Data-Driven Investigation Workshop
Mar 30, 2026 09:00 AM
Bangkok, Thailand
Accountable and Transparent Public Procurement in Malaysia
Dec 09, 2025 09:00 AM
Millenium Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Resources
Using Investigative Journalism Techniques, FATF Guidelines and Open Data Standards
14 December 2025 Training materials and workshop templates designed to teach investigative journalism techniques for uncovering opaque public procurement in Malaysia. The resource covers the use of PEPs, Beneficial Ownership Data Standards (BODS), and AI tools like NotebookLM to analyze offshore and off-budget items. Read More
Pycon MY 2024: Using Python on SPRM Offenders Data
27 August 2024 Presentation at Pycon My 2024 on experience of scraping SPRM (MACC) website database of offenders and preliminary analysis of data. Read More
Politikus Website
20 March 2020 Read More