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

Fri Apr 26 07:49:50 UTC 2013

Hi Anders,

I won't be in Brussels, but I coded a small scraper of public procurements
in Croatia last Wednesday as I was in a training with journalists from the
region. This is my welcome gift for Croatia's entry into the Union :)

I've polished it a bit this morning, feel free to build on it as needed and
maybe you can make use of it on May 2.

It's here: https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/hr_procurements/

Nicolas Kayser-Bril
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Berlin: +49 170 287 5332

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Anders Pedersen
<anders.pedersen at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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
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