[wdmmg-discuss] Where does Europe's money go?

Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Thu Apr 21 17:31:07 UTC 2011


Perfect: I'll liaise with you and Lisa off-list re: timing. ;-)

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Simon Rogers
<simon.rogers at guardian.co.uk> wrote:
> Sounds great - can we chat it through next week?
>
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> To: Simon Rogers <simon.rogers at guardian.co.uk>
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> lisa.evans at guardian.co.uk <lisa.evans at guardian.co.uk>; Ron Patz
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> Subject: Re: Where does Europe's money go?
>
> Great! I think we can help with doing the visualisations on
> OpenSpending.org, background research, I should be able to help edit
> this into a short film with boilerplate, etc.
>
> Simon, Lisa: would you be able to help out with a compelling angle,
> co-drafting a short script, etc? And perhaps a recorded voiceover from
> one of you?
>
> (Ron: is this of any interest to you? See below for details...)
>
> J.
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Simon Rogers
> <simon.rogers at guardian.co.uk> wrote:
>> Definately interested
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: okfn.jonathan.gray at googlemail.com
>> <okfn.jonathan.gray at googlemail.com>
>> To: Where does my money go? <wdmmg-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
>> Cc: Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at guardian.co.uk>; Simon Rogers
>> <simon.rogers at guardian.co.uk>
>> Sent: Thu Apr 21 00:10:21 2011
>> Subject: Where does Europe's money go?
>>
>> With recent proposals to increase EU budget by 4.9%, and criticism
>> from member states [1], it seems like EU spending is particularly
>> topical at the moment. I wonder whether it might be interesting to use
>> the EU budget visualisations in Open Spending [2] to do a brief
>> walkthrough of EU spending? E.g. even just a basic screencast with a
>> voiceover?
>>
>> Lisa, Simon: just a thought - but I wonder if this is something that
>> you might be interested in? :-)
>>
>> [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13143758
>> [2] http://openspending.org/dataset/eu and
>> http://openspending.org/dataset/fts
>>
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