[okfn-za] Cape Town budget for dummies

Wed Apr 24 02:16:44 UTC 2013

The suggestion that the data rests on Open Spending and can be channelled
to Africa Spending from a central DB works. Eventually as we build out the
site and modules we will probably need to migrate the data to its own
Database.

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Justin Arenstein <justinarenstein at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
>> >
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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
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
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>> >>>> Data Specialist
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