Data-SKUP 2024

On May 14, more than 70 media outlets around the world published the Dubai Unlocked project, an international investigation into the owners of real estate in Dubai. Based on leaked property records from 2020 and 2022, it’s the first project of its kind to look at ownership in the Emirate on a global scale, identifying scores of property owners we believe it is in the public interest to write about. Cleaning, disseminating and verifying the data was a massive lift! In this session we will explain how we got the data in shape and managed the workflow for such a large international collaboration.

E24 co-lead the project together with OCCRP, and Eiliv Frich Flydal will tell you how everything started and how and why Dubai should be on your radar. Karina and Eric will tell you how they worked on millions on rows of difficult data, matched it with new sources and made it available to reporters around the globe.