An early adopter will be the Sunlight Foundation, which promotes openness in campaign financing.
And Lula could make a serious attempt to rally support for long-overdue political reforms, including more openness on campaign finance.
His running mate is Elena Panfilova of TI's combative Russian chapter.Perhaps surprisingly for an organisation dedicated to openness, the campaign for the top job is a private, internal affair.
But the openness of the campaign and the large amounts of money backing it, with donations to congressional campaign funds and large payments for speeches in support of the MEK, has prompted an investigation into potential breaches of laws against financial dealings with banned organisations and whether the campaign amounts to material support for terrorism.
The commission's chairman, former BBC World Service head Sam Younger, said: "The report marks an important step in bringing greater transparency and openness to the campaign spending of political parties.
The qualities he cited to Time to describe his campaign — "openness and transparency and participation" — were ones he said "merged perfectly" with the Internet.
That lent a new openness to the campaigns leading up to presidential elections in July.
Karl Knock, the chairman of a local bank, says he likes the openness of Mr Obama's campaign.
Camilla Cavendish, who has campaigned on the issue, wrote in the Times: "This is what our campaign for openness was all about: to tell the public what is being done in their name.
At a brief press conference at a pool hall in South Charleston, W.Va., Mr. Obama echoed his campaign's openness to a Democratic National Committee plan that would end the dispute over how delegates from Michigan would be seated at the Democratic convention this summer.
The Cumberlege case was uncovered by Spinwatch, a pressure group that campaigns for openness among lobbyists.
