[ddj] Procurement Hack Day - May 2 in BXL - and another reason to attend DataHarvest

Thu Apr 25 21:01:26 UTC 2013

All,

On May 2 OpenSpending will be organising a Hack Day in Brussels on
procurement data [1].

At the Hack Day we'll be asking: Can we use EU procurement data to find
better ways to tell stories about private contractors and government
spending?

We want to build tools helping citizens to answer questions like
(examples):
- which contractors benefit from outsourcing of portuguese municipal
services and
- does the German government actually contract with the "small and medium
sized businesses" it loves to talk about, or does it actually prefer the
"big guys"?

A recent blog post on OpenSpending[2] takes a closer look at reasons why
procurement data should be of interest to journalists.

We hope that activists, journalists and civic coders will join the (free)
Hack Day.

To sum up here are the activities next week in Brussels:
2 May: Hack Day on Procurement [1]
3-4 May: DataHarvest [3] - OpenSpending will take part in the J-Lab track
and the number crunching of EU farm subsidies. Full programme available
here [4].

All for now,
Anders

[1] http://procurement-hack.eventbrite.com/#
[2] http://openspending.org/blog/2013/04/09/procurement-hack-day.html
[3] http://www.journalismfund.eu/dataharvest13
[4] http://www.journalismfund.eu/programme

-- 
Anders Pedersen
Community Coordinator
OpenSpending
Open Knowledge Foundation
Twitter: @anpe
Skype: anpehej
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