[wdmmg-discuss] Where are the cuts? mini-app

Wed Apr 28 18:02:13 UTC 2010

Our 'Spending Cuts' crowdsourcing project now has a page:

http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/

Please let us know what questions you would cut, as the form should be 
easy to complete.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Lisa Evans wrote:

> I replied below.
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Richard Pope wrote:
>
>>  I think this is really worth doing. It could be really simple,
>>  basically a form that lets you enter:
>>
>>  - an authority name
>>  - and amount, or maybe amount range e.g. £1-2  million
>>  - a reference / citation
>>  - details (optional)
>>  - geographical area (optional)
>>  - tags / categories
>>
>>  Then just have a running total, a url for each cut / authority etc
>>
>>  There should be no space for comment, the idea is to become the
>>  attribution point for people discussing cuts, much in the way The
>>  Straight Choice is slowly becoming for people talking about leaflets.
>
> Great, because it means we don't have to wait a year or more for the data to 
> come out in a report -- we can get the cut as it's announced. The members of 
> Democracy Club could be invited to gather this data too.
>