[OpenSpending] The open spending handbook sprint

Wed Nov 14 13:09:33 UTC 2012

This looks brilliant David.

One question: is there any way to get access (in bulk) to the raw data
underlying the app?

Rufus

On 14 November 2012 11:57, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  The Open Spending Handbook sounds like a great idea.
>
> We're putting together a list of resources and organisations working in
> the area of public spending and budgets, along with lots of advice for
> NGOs to really use public data.
>
> If you have examples you would like included then please shout out on this
> thread.
>
>  I've been meaning to announce this for a few weeks, this is a good
> excuse: after seeing the Spanish version of Where Does My Money Go [1], the
> Government of Euskadi - one of the Spanish regions, championing a solid
> Open Data initiative - contacted me to build a more detailed and complete
> version of it.
>
>  The result, the first open spending site promoted by a Spanish public
> administration, is called Aurrekontuak [2] (means 'Budget' in Basque). It
> shows both revenues and expenditures for the last 10 years, both at an
> overview and detailed level. It also compares budgeted vs actual amount,
> although only at a high level. We also added a basic tax calculation model
> (including direct and indirect taxes), a glossary (not in English), and
> search functionality, so you can see for example, the money budgeted for
> each hospital in the region [3]. The web itself is in three languages
> (Spanish, English, Basque), but the budget data itself only in Spanish and
> Basque.
>
>  Technically, I considered using an instance of Open Spending for the
> backend, but their development environment was Ruby-based, so we created
> instead a custom Rails app, partially optimized for the Spanish budget
> structure, which will be open-sourced soon. The visualizations are done
> using D3.js.
>
>  I'm hoping this will be a turning point for public administrations in
> Spain. I'm now working with another region, Aragon, to open up their budget
> data too: it's still work in progress, but they did open their proposed
> budget for 2013 [4]. I'm considering using OpenSpending here as the
> backend, but it's still early to say, it depends on their technical
> requirements.
>
>  Happy to answer any question you may have.
>
>  Regards,
>
> /david
>
> PS: For those looking at the overview diagram and interested in the
> Spanish administration structure, taxes are normally collected by regions,
> sent partially to Madrid, pooled and then redistributed. But Euskadi has a
> quite unique agreement, in which provincial councils do the tax
> collections, pay an agreed amount to the central government for common
> services, and distribute the rest among the regional government, local and
> provincial councils.
>
> [1]: http://dondevanmisimpuestos.es
> [2]: http://aurrekontuak.irekia.euskadi.net/en
> [3]: http://aurrekontuak.irekia.euskadi.net/en/search?q=hospital
> [4]: http://presupuesto.aragon.es/es/policies
>
> _______________________________________________
> openspending mailing list
> openspending at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending
> Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/openspending
>
>

-- 
Co-Founder, Open Knowledge Foundation
Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
http://www.okfn.org/ - http://blog.okfn.org/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/openspending/attachments/20121114/d21f235b/attachment.html>