[wdmmg-discuss] Using where does my money goes in Participatory Democracy

[Sean Canton]

Hello All,

It's wonderful to hear all the international support for Vote With
Your Taxes. It's really not that big of an issue for me to modify the
codebase ( I should really open source it anyway ) to support any
country, state or city budget situation. Or I can show you how to do
it. Everything is stored as variables and populates from there.
Please, contact me directly ( sean at 8isc.com ) and I'll do what I can
within my contraints to make things happen.

Thank you Friedrich for making the connection.

Sean

2011/5/3 Miguel Prados Rodríguez <miguelpradosrodriguez at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for your help, I did not know all this resources !!
> Really the tool that will help is votewithyourtaxes because it allows you to
> compare the actual budget with the people's proposed one, and permits
> citizens to compare their expectations with the government they are involved
> with at present...
> Hope we will be able to translate it on time (if we get it)..
> Thanks, Miguel
>
> El 3 de mayo de 2011 15:43, David Cabo <david at calibea.com> escribió:
>>
>>  Hi Miguel,
>>
>>  It's not really what you asked for, but I think you may be interested
>> in looking at dondevanmisimpuestos.es. It's a port of the original
>> wdmmg site to Spain, using the data from the national budget
>> (Presupuestos Generales del Estado).
>>
>>  My plan is to move from the national level to the regional and
>> municipal level over the coming months. Covering all the
>> regions/cities is a lot of work, since the budgets are in different
>> formats, but I'd like to do the most important ones. Which city are
>> you talking about? If you have a detailed budget and you are
>> interested we could try to display the budget.
>>
>>  regards,
>>
>> /david
>>
>> 2011/5/3 Miguel Prados Rodríguez <miguelpradosrodriguez at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi Friedrich,
>> > I think for the local elections, votewithyourtaxes is the exact tool I
>> > was
>> > thinking of !!!!
>> > Maybe I can put the past budget of the local city council and compare it
>> > with the expected budget the people wanted for their city, it is such a
>> > powerful tool to show the people they should have the power to decide,
>> > it is
>> > real participatory democracy.
>> > I have no programming capacity but I can mess around, I think it is just
>> > a
>> > matter of translating the tool and changing the actual budget, giving
>> > (of
>> > course) the appropriate credits to the author/s and keeping the "donate"
>> > button for them.
>> > It is the first time in history in Spain that a 100% participatory
>> > democratic party goes to the elections, and it will be an extraordinary
>> > promoting tool, the electoral campaign begins on the 6th of May (in
>> > three
>> > days) and last for 15 days, I can have no rest to try to translate the
>> > tool
>> > on time.
>> > Yourtopia will be something we definitively will love to use for the
>> > country's general elections, next year
>> > Thanks for your help Friedrich,
>> >
>> >
>> > Miguel Prados
>> >
>> >
>> > El 3 de mayo de 2011 02:14, Friedrich Lindenberg
>> > <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> escribió:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Miguel,
>> >>
>> >> I think it would be very interesting to have some way of creating
>> >> shadow budgets in OpenSpending. I just met Sean (CC), the creator of
>> >> http://votewithyourtaxes.com/ at TransparencyCamp. His site allows you
>> >> to propose an alternative priorization of the items of the US budget
>> >> and then contrast that with the actual decision, generating a letter
>> >> that you can send to your representatives. Given the data in
>> >> OpenSpending and the voting work we've done in YourTopia
>> >> (yourtopia.net), it should be simple to generalize such a
>> >> functionality to support different kinds of budgets and multiple
>> >> levels of detail.
>> >>
>> >> Is that similar to what you're looking for? Do you have any
>> >> programming capacity to support the implementation of such an idea?
>> >>
>> >> - Friedrich
>> >>
>> >> 2011/5/2 Miguel Prados Rodríguez <miguelpradosrodriguez at gmail.com>:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> > I am Miguel from Spain, I have created a political party,
>> >> > "participatory
>> >> > democracy" that will bid for the local elections in many cities in
>> >> > Spain.
>> >> > I've found this application very useful and I wonder whether it could
>> >> > be
>> >> > used by citizens to actually "choose" the distribution they want for
>> >> > the
>> >> > city budget, making participatory democracy a reality.
>> >> > Regards, Miguel
>> >> >
>> >> >
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Sean Canton
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