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

Fri Apr 26 20:10:21 UTC 2013

Hi Nicolas,

Great! Thanks for sharing this. We'll make sure to share the outcomes incl.
Croatia.

If any of you would like to get involved in the Procurement Hack
Day<http://procurement-hack.eventbrite.com/#>,
but cannot make it to Brussels fear not.

Get in touch via mail or twitter (#dataharvest13 for event or
@openspending). Look forward to be chewing through European contracts with
many of you next week!

Enjoy the weekend,
Anders

On 26 April 2013 03:49, Nicolas Kayser-Bril <hi at nkb.fr> wrote:

> 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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>  Personal website nkb.fr <http://nkb.fr/?m> • Paris: +336 50 57 53 80 •
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>
>
>
>
> 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
>> Twitter: @anpe
>> Skype: anpehej
>>
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