[OpenSpending] [open-government] Technology for Fiscal Transparency - Where Next?

Thu Mar 22 15:17:12 UTC 2012

Hey Chris,

yeah, the guys at CGU told me they'll probably get the data. That will be
amazing! We had to scrape information by hand (there's a nasty captcha on
the Sao Paulo website)

abs,
Pedro Markun

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>wrote:

> Pedro
>
> That sounds great. I'm going to OGP (am on one of the panels), and that
> sort of project was one of the reasons for setting up OpenCorporates
> (OpenSpending and OpenlyLocal both use the OpenCorporates reconciliation
> API to match names of government suppliers to companies). We haven't yet
> got Brazilian companies in OpenCorporates, but are working on it.
>
> Chris
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> On 22 March 2012 13:19, Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi> wrote:
>
>> Awesome.
>>
>> I'll take a look into it :)
>>
>> In Transparency Hackers we didn't (or at least I didn't) focus much
>> energy on fiscal transparency (for a number of reasons, but mostly because
>> that's the area in wich Brazil does best already).
>>
>> But since the Hacker Bus we just started an project/idea around it that
>> might be interesting for you. We've started producing some 'street posters'
>> (those really cheap ones you glue with water and floor? you have those?)
>> that shows how much money a specific company profited from their local
>> government in the past few months (with graphs and charts) - the idea is to
>> create an website that allows people to print those on demand and help
>> spread transparency all over the country.
>>
>> Still really early in the game. We might as well do that in Brasilia
>> during the OGP meeting.
>>
>> []'s
>> Pedro Markun
>> ps: Anyone going to the OGP meeting? The Transparency Hackers are renting
>> a big house with barbecue and stuff for people to sleep and hack. If anyone
>> is looking for a place to stay, drop me an email.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Lists (apologies for the cross-post),
>>>
>>> Over the last month, my colleague Velichka and I have been working on
>>> a report entitled “Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public
>>> Finance" for the GIFT initiative ready for next month's OGP meeting.
>>>
>>> We are hoping to identify the most promising projects around the world
>>> that are using technology (web, mobile or otherwise) to further aims
>>> of fiscal transparency. Of particular interest are projects that aim
>>> to:
>>>
>>> * Publish more or better data related to fiscal processes (aid,
>>> revenues, budgets, audits, etc. — see below),
>>> * Help understand this data through the creation of better
>>> visualisation and data analysis tools,
>>> * Educate citizens about fiscal processes, and assist civil society
>>> organisations promoting accountable governance,
>>> * Facilitate direct participation in fiscal matters through
>>> participatory budgeting, citizen auditing and the like,
>>> * Provide policymakers with complete and reliable data relevant to
>>> their work, enabling them to make better decisions.
>>>
>>> More details on the report can be found in this post:
>>>
>>> http://blog.okfn.org/2012/03/21/technology-for-fiscal-transparency-where-next/
>>>
>>> We wanted to ask the wisdom of the list if there are any projects
>>> which we should consider for inclusion in the report or for their
>>> observations on the above.
>>>
>>> We have also produced a form which gives more details on the areas we
>>> area focussing on - and we would encourage people to fill out with
>>> details of projects which should be included in the report
>>> http://bit.ly/GCX1Cw
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help and I look forward to hearing from you,
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Lucy
>>>
>>>
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