RegardsCitoyens.org

What RegardsCitoyens.org does

Regards Citoyens is a French civic technology non-profit association (association loi 1901), founded in 2009, that operates a portfolio of open data platforms dedicated to political transparency and parliamentary accountability in France. Its core products are NosDéputés.fr (tracking National Assembly deputy activity), NosSénateurs.fr (tracking Senate activity), La Fabrique de la Loi (visualizing the legislative process across ~800 French laws), NosFinancesLocales.fr (local government finance transparency), NosDonnées.fr (open data hosting), the Sunshine database (2.8 million records on pharmaceutical industry payments to healthcare professionals), and the IRFM Transparency Platform (advocating for disclosure of parliamentary expense funds). The technology stack is Python-based, with dedicated scraping libraries (ANpy, Senapy, legipy), a self-hosted ParlAPI on GitLab, public REST APIs, SQL dumps, and a Creative Commons / ODBL data licensing model. Distribution is entirely self-serve via free web access.

The organization is operated exclusively by volunteers, with no paid staff, and is funded by small public donations and occasional project grants (notably LIEPP/SciencesPo support for La Fabrique de la Loi in 2017-2018). All services are provided free of charge; revenue is described as "a few thousand euros" per year. The customer base is horizontal and non-paying: French citizens, journalists, academic researchers, and civic tech developers consuming the data, with downstream media investigations and academic studies (e.g., a 2011 lobbying study with Transparency International France covering 9,000+ hearings) as recognizable outcomes. In July 2022, the team publicly announced it is seeking successors to maintain NosDéputés.fr beyond the XVIth legislature, citing volunteer exhaustion after 13 years, while the association's broader legal work — including an IRFM transparency case now pending before the European Court of Human Rights (case no. 1511/20) — continues.

Name

RegardsCitoyens.org

Legal name

Association Regards Citoyens

Website

https://regardscitoyens.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Regards Citoyens is a French volunteer-run non-profit founded in 2009 that builds open data platforms — NosDéputés.fr, NosSénateurs.fr, La Fabrique de la Loi — providing citizens, journalists, and researchers with transparency on French parliamentary activity, legislation, and political finances.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open Government Data / Civic Technology

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Government & Public Policy Publishing (Regulations, Gazettes, Legislative Tracking) (MPAJACAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Archives, Libraries & Institutional Access Platforms (MPAJAMAJ), Government, Public Policy & Regulatory Reference (Public Administration, Regulatory Guidance) (EDAGAGAK)

Keywords

• Open government data
• Civic technology platforms
• Parliamentary transparency data
• Legislative activity tracking
• Political accountability tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Toulouse

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and public support: Regards Citoyens operates as a non-profit association funded through public donations and contributions. The organization receives some project-based financial support (e.g., from LIEPP/SciencesPo for La Fabrique de la Loi development). Financial accounts are publicly available on their GitHub repository.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Regards Citoyens builds and operates a portfolio of free open-data web platforms that automatically collect, structure, and publish data on French parliamentary activity, the legislative process, local government finances, and pharmaceutical-industry influence. The platforms (NosDéputés.fr, NosSénateurs.fr, La Fabrique de la Loi, NosFinancesLocales.fr, NosDonnées.fr, Sunshine, IRFM Transparency Platform, Interest Declarations Digitization) are aimed at citizens, journalists, researchers and civic tech developers, and are complemented by open-source Python libraries and public APIs.

Product overview

Regards Citoyens is a French civic tech nonprofit operating a portfolio of open data platforms focused on political transparency and parliamentary accountability. The core products include NosDéputés.fr and NosSénateurs.fr for tracking deputy and senator activities, La Fabrique de la Loi for visualizing the legislative process, and NosFinancesLocales.fr for local government finance transparency. Supporting platforms include NosDonnées.fr for dataset hosting, Sunshine for pharmaceutical industry transparency, and the IRFM initiative for parliamentary expense transparency. All products are powered by open source software published on GitLab/GitHub, with data released under Creative Commons and ODBL licenses. The organization operates as a 100% volunteer association since 2009.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NosDéputés.fr: Platform tracking the activity of deputies in the French National Assembly — participation in committees, questions, amendments, speeches, and voting records for all legislatures.
• NosSénateurs.fr
• La Fabrique de la Loi
• NosFinancesLocales.fr
• Sunshine
• NosDonnées.fr
• IRFM (Transparence de l'IRFM)

Products and services

• NosDéputés.fr Open data platform tracking French National Assembly deputies' commission work, floor debates, written/oral questions, amendments, voting records and attendance, with vote delegation transparency features.
• NosSénateurs.fr Platform showcasing and valorizing the activity of French Senate senators, covering commission work, hemicycle activity, written/oral questions and amendments.
• La Fabrique de la Loi (The Law Factory) Interactive platform exploring the legislative process of approximately 800 French laws, tracking modifications, amendments and debates through parliamentary procedure, with automated ingestion of new laws upon promulgation.
• NosFinancesLocales.fr Platform providing transparency on local government finances for French municipalities, presenting accounting and fiscal data from local collectives.
• NosDonnées.fr Open data hosting platform containing various datasets used across Regards Citoyens projects, available for public reuse under open licenses.
• Sunshine (Open Data Pharma) Open data initiative on gifts and contracts between the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals, covering 2.8 million declarations linking laboratories with doctors and health practitioners.
• IRFM Transparency Platform Collaborative initiative demanding transparency on the Indemnité Représentative de Frais de Mandat (IRFM) of French parliamentarians, including legal action before the Conseil d'État and the European Court of Human Rights.
• Interest Declarations Digitization Crowdsourced project digitizing handwritten interest declarations from parliamentarians, transforming PDF scans into collaborative open data.

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered major and minor.

• SciencesPo médialabmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Collaborated on the 2018 La Fabrique de la Loi datasprint in Lyon. The médialab provided academic and technical expertise for analyzing parliamentary data. This partnership led to multiple research projects on voting behavior, amendment classification, and parliamentary procedures.
• MediaCitésminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Journalistic collaboration on parliamentary assistant turnover data. MediaCités published an investigation based on data collected by Regards Citoyens on hiring and firing practices of French MPs.
• The ConversationminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Academic media partnership for publishing research findings on parliamentary assistant turnover derived from Regards Citoyens data.
• Transparency International FrancemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Joint study on lobbying influence at the French National Assembly. After analyzing more than 9,000 hearings annexed to National Assembly reports, the study mapped the influence operating during the parliamentary process.
• École normale supérieure de LyonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost venue for the 2018 La Fabrique de la Loi datasprint workshop at the Complex Systems Institute.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• They Work For You (mySociety): UK-based civic-tech platform that parses Hansard to make MPs' parliamentary activity searchable. Closest direct analog to NosDéputés.fr in terms of per-MP activity tracking and consumer-friendly transparency interface, serving an analogous citizen-journalist-researcher user base.
• VoteWatch Europe: Platform tracking European Parliament and Council voting records and member activity. Directly comparable in product design (per-MEP profiles, voting analytics, bill evolution), but focused on EU institutions rather than a single national parliament.
• GovTrack.us: Non-partisan US platform tracking members of Congress, bills, votes, and legislative status. Provides the closest functional analog to La Fabrique de la Loi's bill-tracking and to NosDéputés.fr's per-member activity records, with similar data-licensing ethos.
• ParliamentWatch (Abgeordnetenwatch): German civic-tech platform tracking activity of Bundestag members, including votes, questions, and side income disclosures. Directly comparable to NosDéputés.fr in mission, product design, and target audience (citizens seeking parliamentary accountability), but operating in a different national parliament.
• OpenAustralia: Australian parliamentary transparency site run by the OpenAustralia Foundation, tracking MPs, senators, votes, speeches, and Hansard. Operates the same per-MP activity paradigm as NosDéputés.fr and is built on an open-source base similar in spirit to Regards Citoyens' stack.
• Parlement & Citoyens: French civic-tech platform enabling citizens to propose and vote on legislative ideas submitted to parliament. Operates in the same French civic-tech ecosystem with a comparable mission of citizen-parliament engagement, but focused on participation rather than transparency monitoring.

Broad incumbents

• mySociety: UK-based civic-tech charity that builds and operates They Work For You, FixMyStreet, WhatDoTheyKnow, and other transparency/accountability tools. A broader civic-tech umbrella with institutional funding and paid staff, providing a model for what Regards Citoyens could become with operational scale-up.
• Open Knowledge Foundation: International non-profit advocating for open data and open government globally, including parliamentary transparency initiatives. Operates at broader scope (open data infrastructure, policy advocacy, multiple countries) rather than specializing in a single parliament's data.

Others

• Etalab: French government's open-data task force under the Prime Minister's office, operating data.gouv.fr. Functions as upstream open-data infrastructure that Regards Citoyens' platforms complement; comparable mission but government-funded and broader in scope.
• Open Government Partnership: International multi-stakeholder initiative promoting government transparency, accountability, and civic participation across 70+ countries. Thematically adjacent as a global platform for the transparency norms Regards Citoyens advocates at the national level in France.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RegardsCitoyens
• GitHubgithub.com/regardscitoyens
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/regards-citoyens-france

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about RegardsCitoyens.org