[OpenSpending] The open spending handbook sprint

Thu Nov 15 06:46:36 UTC 2012

Impressive indeed... David.
Just wanted to clarify, to make sure I understand, when you said that you:
" ...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..."

Is it that the Web front-end for your openspending site was built using the
source codebase and templates from  the wheredoesmymoneygo.org  but instead
of using the APIs to data stored in the public OpenSpending platform, you
developed your own custom back-end and APIs? Just wanted to make sure we
understand the approach, as we would love to replicate the look & feel /
functionality of your site..

Mlm

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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
>>
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