[OpenSpending] First update: Athens to Greece - Diavgeia Profile

[Lucy Chambers]

Hi Anna,

Many thanks for this. I have just left Greece - but I will definitely
try and follow up on this remotely!

Lucy

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Anna Powell-Smith
<annapowellsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lucy
>
> Sounds fun!
>
> It may be too late now, but I wonder if it's worth trying to chat to
> Diomedis Spinellis, at Athens University?
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/05/144747663/how-a-computer-scientist-tried-to-save-greece
>
> Best wishes
> Anna
>
> On 11 July 2012 23:01, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> A while back, we wrote about our travels around Europe, trying to get
>> a picture of what it is like in the lives of organisations trying to
>> hold governments to account for their financial activities.
>>
>> As I wrote, I had difficulty in finding advocacy organisations who
>> work specifically on analysing financial documents. However, I was
>> invited to the municipality of Neo Iraklio Attikis to show how
>> Diavgeia, the government 'Clarity' programme works in action there.
>> Viewing this as an opportunity to see what tools governments were
>> providing which could potentially help such organisations, did they
>> exist - I seized the chance to speak to the team.
>>
>> This post gives a very brief overview of what Diavgeia is, and why it
>> may be a very important project for Greece:
>> http://openspending.org/blog/2012/07/11/Greece.html
>>
>> In my next post, I'll talk to the *users* of Diavgeia, highlight which
>> tools they are using to work with the data, and what they are doing
>> with it and whether there is anything which could be improved...
>>
>> Till next time,
>>
>> Lucy
>>
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>> Open Knowledge Foundation
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