[okfn-za] Cape Town budget for dummies

[Paul Berkowitz]

Hi all

My first day on the site. Well done with all you have so far: it's an 
incredible collaboration

I am wondering why it took me so long to find you. I have a fair bit of 
existing data on Section 71 budgets (quarterly municipal budget updates 
from Treasury), election results and more. I would love to be involved in 
the CoJ Budget 2013/14 analysis - I have looked through the proposed tariff 
data and have some ideas. 

I'm also tangentially involved with the TechInBraam project, as our company 
is trying to launch a business incubator in Braamfontein. 

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:14:29 PM UTC+2, Justin Arenstein wrote:
>
> Hi guys.
>
> It looks like the Jozi chapter of HH is pulling together a hackday 
> focusing on municipal (city) budgets. Theresa is organising speakers, 
> thematic experts, etc, with a target date for June 15. The Cape Town 
> chapters of HH & OKF might want to stage something on the same date, so 
> everyone works on common solutions, etc?
>
> Also, Rufus, shouldn't we channel whatever comes of out this through 
> AfricanSpending.org?
>
> Cheers,
> Justin
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> On 23 April 2013 08:11, Adi Eyal <a... at burgercom.co.za <javascript:>>wrote:
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>> Hi Rufus
>>
>> The excel file is not available but we can ask for it. Perhaps we should 
>> wait for the budget to be finalised?
>>
>> Adi
>>
>>
>> On 19 April 2013 18:43, Rufus Pollock <rufus.... at okfn.org <javascript:>>wrote:
>>
>>> http://nu.org.za/analysis-city-of-cape-town-201314-draft-budget/ - very 
>>> nice!
>>>
>>> Is there any way to get the underlying data in excel / CSV? It would 
>>> then be 2s to get this into http://openspending.org/ and have a 
>>> first South African city on http://apps.openspending.org/maps/!
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 April 2013 17:47, Adi Eyal <a... at burgercom.co.za <javascript:>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> Check out @fritzjooste of Ndifuna Ukwazi and his visualisation of the 
>>>> draft Cape Town city budget. He's turned a spreadsheet into a story. I 
>>>> can't think of a more apt use of visualisation for simplifying data. 
>>>>  
>>>> Adi
>>>>
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