[OpenSpending] Fwd: Public money quizzes for OpenSpending.org?

Sat Aug 31 03:04:28 UTC 2013

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From: Steve Adcock <gsaintheusa at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenSpending] Public money quizzes for OpenSpending.org?
To: kfbrzezinska at gmail.com

Thanks K.
I see your background is petroleum and energy. So is mine. You can find my
profile on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-adcock/2/a01/aa7/
Please send me further information about your background in our industry.
Thanks,
Steve

Regards,
Steve Adcock

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:57 AM, K. Brzezinska <kfbrzezinska at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think quizzes are always appealing to a certain segment of the
> population. (I personally was totally absorbed by the Christian Science
> Monitor's US citizenship test.) I would be happy to contribute to a monthly
> contest, and initially would like to focus on providing info abt the topics
> I'm most adept with: petroleum (could be subsidies for development or ...)
> and other energy, government subsidies to companies, or some other topics
> hammered out to fit a specific theme. Not yet adept enough at the technical
> side, but would happily contribute my undying hunger for info.
>
> Will think this week about where I'd look for info about such topics.
> Especially the petroleum industry is full of info (and secrets!).
>
> cheers, K.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:27 PM, 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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