[open-government] Technology for Fiscal Transparency - WhereNext?

Fri Mar 23 06:34:12 UTC 2012

Lucy, 

thanks for the  report info! 

Pedro, I´d like to meet the Transparency Hackers  at the OGP meeting, 

share ideas on budget transparency, 

 Estonian site is http://www.meieraha.eu/?lang=en&page=main

See you in Brasilia, 

Hille Hinsberg, 

Praxis Policy Center, Estonia

From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Taggart
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [open-government] Technology for Fiscal Transparency - WhereNext?

Pedro

That sounds great. I'm going to OGP (am on one of the panels), and that sort of project was one of the reasons for setting up OpenCorporates (OpenSpending and OpenlyLocal both use the OpenCorporates reconciliation API to match names of government suppliers to companies). We haven't yet got Brazilian companies in OpenCorporates, but are working on it.

Chris

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On 22 March 2012 13:19, Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi> wrote:

Awesome.

I'll take a look into it :)

In Transparency Hackers we didn't (or at least I didn't) focus much energy on fiscal transparency (for a number of reasons, but mostly because that's the area in wich Brazil does best already).

But since the Hacker Bus we just started an project/idea around it that might be interesting for you. We've started producing some 'street posters' (those really cheap ones you glue with water and floor? you have those?) that shows how much money a specific company profited from their local government in the past few months (with graphs and charts) - the idea is to create an website that allows people to print those on demand and help spread transparency all over the country.

Still really early in the game. We might as well do that in Brasilia during the OGP meeting.

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Pedro Markun
ps: Anyone going to the OGP meeting? The Transparency Hackers are renting a big house with barbecue and stuff for people to sleep and hack. If anyone is looking for a place to stay, drop me an email.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:

Dear Lists (apologies for the cross-post),

Over the last month, my colleague Velichka and I have been working on
a report entitled “Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public
Finance" for the GIFT initiative ready for next month's OGP meeting.

We are hoping to identify the most promising projects around the world
that are using technology (web, mobile or otherwise) to further aims
of fiscal transparency. Of particular interest are projects that aim
to:

* Publish more or better data related to fiscal processes (aid,
revenues, budgets, audits, etc. — see below),
* Help understand this data through the creation of better
visualisation and data analysis tools,
* Educate citizens about fiscal processes, and assist civil society
organisations promoting accountable governance,
* Facilitate direct participation in fiscal matters through
participatory budgeting, citizen auditing and the like,
* Provide policymakers with complete and reliable data relevant to
their work, enabling them to make better decisions.

More details on the report can be found in this post:
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/03/21/technology-for-fiscal-transparency-where-next/

We wanted to ask the wisdom of the list if there are any projects
which we should consider for inclusion in the report or for their
observations on the above.

We have also produced a form which gives more details on the areas we
area focussing on - and we would encourage people to fill out with
details of projects which should be included in the report
http://bit.ly/GCX1Cw

Many thanks for your help and I look forward to hearing from you,

All the best,

Lucy

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