[wdmmg-discuss] Italy's regional public accounts

Thu Apr 14 18:01:44 UTC 2011

Hello,

My name is Aline Pennisi. I'm an Italian civil servant. With some colleguaes we would like to contirbute to the OpenSpending project and have already identified some interesting data sources.

On the 19th of April a conference event where some of you will participate will be held in Rome on "Open data and trasparency" and we are holding a specific panel on Transparency of budget data. The conference is hosted by the Chamber of Deputies, so this is a good opportunity to reach a wide and interesting audience.

For this occasion we would like to import on the openspending platform Italy's regional public accounts dataset from 1996 to 2008 (2009 will soon be avialable) and show people at the conference how the WDMMG visualisation can give value added to inform, understand and explore this data.

The Regional Public Accounts (RPA) measure public financial flows at the regional level provinding information on central and local government revenues and expenditures (either on current and capital account) by sector.

Data is available since 1996 for General Government or the wider Public Sector and allows for analysis of various sub-aggregates covering different macro-areas and administrative regions, sector classifications, economic categories, definitions of government expenditure and final expenditure recipients.

Data is produced by the Department for Development Policies, Ministry of Economic Development, ITALY and will be released in CSV/TXT format soon on the RPA website.

The dataset has been prepared following the wiki.openspending requirements and the datapackage loaded on CKAN.

How can I upload it on the openspeding platform and check whether it is working?

It would be great to show it at the conference next week!

Thanks for your help and lookign forward to meeting some of you soon,

Aline

We start here with a simple dataset providing only COFOG sector classification.