[wdmmg-discuss] WDMMG Mexico

[Jose Maria Marin]

Hi Friedrich,

Thanks for the response!

The information you provided is very useful. It would be good to have a Skype call if you can spare the time. There is at least one big database provided by the government on the yearly budget that we can use for the overview, and regions visualizations; however, I suspect we'll have to create other databases, for example one that has both income and expenditure information for the "My daily bread" visualization. 

I wonder if it's possible to see the actual database for My daily bread to replicate it (taking into consideration of course the differences in expenditure classifications, etc).

Let me know when's a good time to talk!

Best regards,

Jose

-----Mensaje original-----
De: friedrich.lindenberg at gmail.com [mailto:friedrich.lindenberg at gmail.com] En nombre de Friedrich Lindenberg
Enviado el: Miércoles, 09 de Febrero de 2011 03:10 p.m.
Para: Jose Maria Marin
CC: wdmmg-discuss at lists.okfn.org
Asunto: Re: [wdmmg-discuss] WDMMG Mexico

Hi Jose,

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Jose Maria Marin <Jose at fundar.org.mx> wrote:
> My name is Jose M. Marin and I work at Fundar, a non-profit that focuses on
> issues of transparency, budgeting, accountability and human rights. We are
> interested in setting up a WDMMG website for Mexico and we were told this is
> the best place to start!

Fantastic! Lets see how we can get you started :-)

> First of all I wanted to ask, what kind of budget information we need to
> create the database for the different visualizations? Could we take a look
> at some of the databases used in WDMMG to get an idea of the format and info
> we need to collect?

I've now started to set up a page detailing the data format needed
etc.: http://wiki.openspending.org/Technical_Format - perhaps you
could tell me if this is useful for you and what should be added. We
can, of course, also talk about this on IRC or Skype?

- Friedrich