[OpenSpending] openspending Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7

Thu Apr 19 11:15:00 UTC 2012

Hi Kaitlin,

I think that's a great idea. I'm starting to pull together the ideas
in a pad here and have added it:

http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/helsinki

We'll try and weave these into a coherent stream tomorrow!

Lucy

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Kaitlin Lee
<klee at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
>
> One topic that might be interesting to add to this stream is entity
> identification/corporate identifiers. This had its own satellite event last
> year, and if it isn't already part of another stream, I think it makes sense
> to include in this one. Linking entities across spending datasets is problem
> that's going to be more necessary to solve as we aggregate more and more
> spending data
>
> -Kaitlin
>
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>> Hi All,
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>> As you may have seen, the call for proposals for Open Knowledge Festival,
>> which will take place this year in Helsinki in September, was recently
>> announced. http://okfestival.org/call-for-proposals/
>>
>> I am in the process of drawing up a draft for a 'Open Spending data and
>> Open Economics Stream' at the festival and am keen for your input on what
>> should go into it
>>
>> Some possible themes (please feel free to add / change):
>>
>> * Technology for open fiscal data - who is building what? (Lightning talks
>> & Show and Tell)
>> * Money In, Money Out and Invisible Money - Revenues, Spending and
>> Off-budget information
>> * Getting people involved - participation (participatory budgeting, social
>> auditing etc)
>> * Hackday - e.g. getting data into OpenSpending, building a budgeting
>> calendar (e.g. crowdsourcing key dates )
>> * Open Finance Data and advocacy - how do we bring techies and policy
>> people together? What do we need to build next?
>>
>> I would also be keen to reach out to organisations who might not be on
>> this
>> mailing list e.g. many of the participants of the Open Budget Index, so I
>> am just trying to gauge how big an event this should be.
>>
>> If you would be interested in leading a panel/workshop/talk/lightning talk
>> - from presenting a project, participating in a panel to leading a full
>> talk, please let me know your ideas. We're still brainstorming at this
>> stage, so you don't need to send me an official proposal, but please let
>> me
>> know what you would be interested in doing!
>>
>> Lucy
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