[okfn-za] Cape Town budget for dummies

[Justin Arenstein]

Cool.

I'm looping Jay & Muchiri from the Open Institute into the discussion,
because they manage AfricanSpending on our behalf. They'd be best placed to
respond to the suggestion that AfricanSpending function as an effective
child site of OpenSpending.

Theresa, copied above, is leading the logistics for the June 15 meetup on
municipal data / budgets. She's best placed to help coordinate plans for a
simultaneous hackday in Jozi & Cape Town.

Cheers,
Justin



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On 23 April 2013 16:54, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 23 April 2013 15:14, Justin Arenstein <justinarenstein at gmail.com>
> 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?
>
> Great idea!
>
> > Also, Rufus, shouldn't we channel whatever comes of out this through
> > AfricanSpending.org?
>
> Absolutely :-) (I thought I'd linked this in my initial email but
> checking now realize it was missing!).
>
> I anticipate data going into the central DB and then being displayed
> in a given site (this is the WhereDoesMyMoney and AfricanSpending
> model) so first step here is to get it into OpenSpending.org and then
> it should auto show up in AfricanSpending (once we get the view pages
> back up there)!
>
> Rufus
>
> > Cheers,
> > Justin
> >
> > Justin Arenstein
> >
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> >
> > On 23 April 2013 08:11, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.pollock at okfn.org> 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 <adi at burgercom.co.za> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Adi Eyal
> >>>> Data Specialist
> >>>> phone: +27 78 014 2469
> >>>> skype: adieyalcas
> >>>> linkedin: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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