Contributing organizations
By working with organizations that specialize in specific issue areas or do extensive research on certain industries, Crocodyl can build a "Community of Accountability" around corporate research. By leveraging the wiki model of open access to information with the expertise of these organizations, we are building collectively produced dossiers on a large number of corporations, in the interest of democratizing information and increasing accountability. Some organizations we are working with in an advisory capacity and some are actively creating and monitoring company profiles:
- Corporate Europe Observatory
- Focus on the Global South
- Friends of the Earth International
- Tax Justice Network-USA
- Corporate Watch
How you can help
This site is powered by user submissions. As a collaborative research tool the site is only as good as its contributors. There are many ways to plug into the Crocodyl community:
We have a general email list for questions, comments and discussion around the project. If you want to help out but don't know what to do, this is a good place to ask. Coalition partners, collaborators and contributors can discuss new ideas, possible improvements and issues surrounding work flow, design and research. To sign up visit our email list hompage, sponsored by Riseup. It is an open forum and anyone is welcome to join.
Discussion around specific companies should be directed to the "talk" pages within each company profile. This is where editors and collaborating muckrakers work on vetting information and making sure all facts are accurate and up to date. Links to information that needs to be checked for accuracy but is relevant can be posted here so that editors and other contributors can investigate further.
Crocodyl is also an educational tool -- if you have never done corporate research before, or are experienced with research but have not used the web to do research extensively, our staff of professional researchers and reporters is here to help. Email 
for a walk through of how the site works and how you can use it to launch an investigation.
