[OpenSpending] Public money quizzes for OpenSpending.org?

[Steve Adcock]

Great idea Jon.
Do you have someone willing to take charge of it? Maybe produce a weekly
quiz or cross-word puzzle and an annual or monthly contest? I think this
kind of thing is generally a good idea and should capture the interest of a
portion of the reading community (5-10%?). However, it needs a regular
champion to make it work.
An added advantage if the concept takes hold is that we may be able to get
the weekly/monthly puzzle posted in other online magazines and news feeds,
which would improve OKFN visibility to the community at large.
Maybe the puzzle could include a graphic element or design, as you suggest,
I like that idea. Additionally, perhaps you might also consider allowing
the answers, at least for some puzzles, to take a graphic form. No telling
what cool ideas we might be able to get from that type of crowd sourcing.
Regards
Steve Adcock

Regards,
Steve Adcock


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> To engage more people around the OpenSpending project and to increase
> literacy around public finance, have we ever thought about doing simple
> quizzes about different aspects of public expenditure and revenue?
>
> E.g. you could have questions like:
>
>   * "In the [financial year X] which are did
> [national/regional/local/departmental government entity Y] spend most on?
> spending category A, B, or C?"
>   * "Which of the following countries spends most on [spending category A]
> per capita? country X, country Y, country Z"
>   * "How much does [company X] get from [government Y]? €Ak, €Bk, €Ck"
>
> Followed by nice simple visualisations showing relative spending on each
> category, perhaps with some context and links to relevant data items on
> OpenSpending.
>
> What do people think?
>
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