[OpenSpending-discuss] What role can accountants play in projects such as OpenSpending? (Take 2) - Thursday 2nd Feb

Wed Feb 1 11:23:22 UTC 2012

Hi Marco,

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:04 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 17:38:11 PM +0000, Lucy Chambers wrote:
>
> > I'd like to try again to continue the really great discussion we
> > started two weeks ago about what role accountants can play in
> > citizen led initiatives such as OpenSpending.
>
> Greetings, everybody!
>
> I subscribed to this list only a few days ago, and this is the very
> first message from it that I have time to read, so please forgive me
> if this was already mentioned or is out of scope. This said, what
> about _student_ accountants?
>
> Why not involve (young) people who are just learning how accounting
> works in analyzing the data and explaining them to the general public?
>

We'd be delighted to get students involved!

One of the things that came out of our brief chat last time was the need to
work on resources such as:

* A 'how to find out about a certain type of spending' guide, where to look
for a particular type of data,
* A representation of information flows (as a precursor to...)
* A 'performance measurement' guide (to answer the question: "What can we
look for in public sector accounts to distinguish the bodies that are
managing their money well from those who are in serious financial trouble?")

Can you think of anything we should add here?

Also, if you know anyone we should invite personally to join the call -
please do give us a shout!

Lucy

>
> This (open data and accounting students) is just one of the examples I
> made in my OGD talk about Open Data for Education, so if you want to
> know more about where this idea comes from and why, please see:
> http://mfioretti.com/warsaw-open-data-and-education
>
> HTH,
>        Marco
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