[wdmmg-discuss] Belgian Taxmoney

Tue Jul 19 09:38:25 UTC 2011

On 19 July 2011 08:19, Jan Vansteenlandt <vansteenlandt.jan at gmail.com> wrote:
> We just had a visit from someone at the parliament, and I thought it was a
> great opportunity to sit down with him and ask him about that specific data.
> He gave me some links where I could find that info. The info is out there
> BUT it's in PDF .... so i'll have to read all the data ( which is bilangual
> dutch and french ) and put it in some sort of back end. I'll have time for
> this somewhere around the beginning of august ! Once I have the data i'll
> make a wikipage for it on the openspending website !

Great stuff Jan and always feel free to wiki stuff before you've got
the detailed data - even basic url leads are useful (and once we've
got detailed data it's time to put it on thedatahub.org :-) )

Rufus

>
> Jan
>
> 2011/7/18 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>>
>> On 17 July 2011 15:30, Jan Vansteenlandt <vansteenlandt.jan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > I'm Jan, I just joined this mailinglist to let you guys know I might
>> > dive
>> > into the depths of the belgian law and get where the belgian tax money
>> > goes.
>> > I'm currently searching the datahub for some interesting data, but none
>> > found so far. If you guys know where to start, let me know ^^.
>>
>> I don't think we have any Belgian data as yet or any Belgian data
>> hunters so it's great to hear from you! Some suggestions :-)
>>
>> 1. Add Belgium to <http://wiki.openspending.org/Countries> with your
>> name next to it
>> 2. Can you dig up any links for Belgium government budget or spending
>> data. If so start adding them to the wiki or directly into a data
>> package on http://thedatahub.org/ (named e.g. budget-be or ...)
>> 3. Come to the next online community meetup:
>> <http://wiki.openspending.org/Meetups>
>>
>> > Nice job so far with the openspending program, the WDMMG website is
>> > pretty
>> > cool !!
>>
>> Thanks - if we get the data we can make one for Belgium!
>>
>> Rufus
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