[wdmmg-discuss] One-click Freedom of Information requests for local spending data

Mon Oct 4 16:04:11 UTC 2010

Sure!

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:33:23PM +0200, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Chris: perhaps you and Francis might be able to run a session on "the
> beginnings of a highly interconnected transparency ecosystem" at
> <http://www.opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010> based on things like your
> message below? E.g. looking at things like:
> 
>   * what bits and pieces do we need and what do we already have
>   * common, open source infrastructure that we can use to do this in
> other countries (e.g. What Do They Know Germany, ...)
>   * what you hope this area will look like in 2, 5, 10 years time ;-)
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thought the list might be interested in knowing thanks to the excellent work
> > of Francis at WhatDoTheyKnow.com I've now added one-click Freedom of
> > Information requests for local spending data payments over £10,000.
> >
> > Full details are at the blog post:
> > http://countculture.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/new-feature-one-click-foi-requests-for-spending-payments/
> > but it basically populates an FoI request with the right council, the
> > details of the transaction (date, amount, supplier, id etc) and the usual
> > boilerplate, meaning the user only has to add their name.
> >
> > The key thing, however, is that WDTK have now added the ability to do
> > machine tags, meaning we can tag requests with information about the
> > submitted transaction, which in turns mean we can (soon -- just waiting for
> > Francis to implement) get info for given machine tags meaning we can find
> > (and show on OpenlyLocal) requests relating to a transaction (and via that
> > to a supplier).
> >
> > Feels very exciting, the beginnings of a highly interconnected transparency
> > ecosystem.
> >
> > By the way, OpenlyLocal is intending to import all the local council
> > spending data (and making avail as open data to download). So far we've
> > imported 233,143 transactions from 34 councils, with more being imported
> > every week.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Chris
> >
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