[wdmmg-discuss] Croatian open data transparency

[Roy Peled, FOIM]

great!

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Marko Rakar <mrakar at mrak.biz> wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> I am communication consultant so we hve been covered pretty well (three out
> of three national networks covered us in their evening news, 40+ web sites
> and god knows how many printed and radio stations).
>
> All of our moves are carefully tailored for maximum impact and publicity.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Roy Peled, FOIM <roy at meida.org.il>wrote:
>
>> Looks wonderful, Marko, from the little I could understand. We're working
>> on something similar here, and you beat us too it. Maybe a small tip that
>> might or might not be relevant for your work - we teamed with a leading
>> financial newspaper to make this a joint project, and it will be on their
>> website and ours, so it gives it much more publicity. I think newspapers,
>> and especially financials, would be interested in such stuff anywhere, and
>> it is important leverage where you don't have the funds to run a whole PR
>> campaign as maybe some of the colleagues in other places have. We did
>> something basic for now, treemap in style, and trying to work on something
>> closer to WDMMG to be launched in the near future.
>>
>> Roy
>> FOIM Israel
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Marko Rakar <mrakar at mrak.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello to all,
>>>
>>> I have been lurking on the list for some time, but now I have something
>>> to show.
>>>
>>> Small team from brand new croatian NGO called Windmill (all references to
>>> Don Quijote are there for a reason) launched our first small project which
>>> is graphic visualisation of Croatian state budget.
>>>
>>> http://proracun.pollitika.com/
>>>
>>> It is fully in Croatian language, but basically you have two possible
>>> treemap views of the budget, one is budget spending by user of the money
>>> (grouped by ministries, agencies and offices) and another one is by cost
>>> type (salaries, subsidies, services, material goods etc...).
>>> We used standard open source libraries for visualisation, although we had
>>> to modify them since croatian budget have more then 10.000 items and
>>> explorer crashed on it.
>>>
>>> This is very first time something like this was made in Croatia since we
>>> really do not have any kind of government transparency.
>>> Data used for this visualisation was obtained from unofficial channels,
>>> since croatian state budget was (until few weeks back) published only as a
>>> scanned PDF file and you wold be completely unable to use it for any kind of
>>> analysis. Based on our push, government released limited version of budget
>>> in excel format on their web site.
>>>
>>> NGO is called Windmill (or "Vjetrenjača" in Croatian) and you can find
>>> our site at https://vjetrenjaca.org, at the moment all content is in
>>> croatian language but I belive that google translator will help if you are
>>> interested. Windmill does not have professional staff and all we do is in
>>> our spare time.
>>>
>>> Our basic plan is to be financed with small donations from concerned
>>> citizens as well as institutional donors; both will be hard since we do not
>>> have culture of donating in Croatia and tax rules are not exactly favorable
>>> (they are in part but not completely).
>>>
>>> We are interested in expanding our work in the future and we sure hope to
>>> see and meet you at Open government camp later in the year. We are also open
>>> to networking and exchanging ideas.
>>>
>>> kind regards to all, marko
>>>
>>> p.s. some more info about my previous work you can find on google by
>>> typing my name or more condensed on
>>> http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/croatias-data-transparency-revolutionary-marko-rakar
>>>
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