[wdmmg-discuss] Open Spending call for collaboration?

Wed Apr 20 12:05:04 UTC 2011

Wunderschön. ;-)

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a plan!
>
> On 20 April 2011 11:56, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps we could include company names in one of the questions (e.g.
>> "are you interested in gathering information about transactions
>> between governments and companies?"). We could then deal with
>> responses on a case by case basis?
>>
>> We should definitely talk about having specific spending and company
>> data streams in the next big open data hackathon. ;-)
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Jonathan
>> > Any chance of a subtle mention re OpenCorporates in this, esp
>> > non-spending
>> > data that could be matched to companies?
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > On 20 April 2011 11:46, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On the back of the Italian spending data stuff should we put out a
>> >> public call to ask people about doing Open Spending in their country?
>> >>
>> >> E.g. Google form with something like:
>> >>
>> >>  * Why do you think we should do Open Spending in your country?
>> >>  * Is there currently data available which we could use?
>> >>  * Would you be able to assist? If so how?
>> >>  * Do you know of any organisations, individuals, etc who could
>> >> partner with us to contribute to Open Spending in your country?
>> >>  * Who would Open Spending in your country be useful for?
>> >>  * Can you think of any other tools for analysing/exploring the data
>> >> that would be useful?
>> >>  * Country
>> >>  * Name
>> >>  * Email, URL, Twitter ID, etc
>> >>
>> >> What do people think?
>> >>
>> >> Lucy: useful?
>> >>
>> >> J.
>> >>
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