[OpenSpending] Community Call Wednesday, January 30th 1900 CEST / 1300 EST

[Crina Boros]

Hi Anders.

I added a few names of Romanian banks that have gone bust to our databases
some days ago, without further description. I do have various details, but
they were either sourced from more or less politically-biased press or from
Wikipedia or a combination of the two. Would you like me to fill those in
or would rather want me to submit several press and FOIA request to the
relevant Romanian state institutions and use their feedback to fill in the
description cells?

It would be useful to know.
Regards,
Crina

Crina Boros
Independent journalist
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On 23 January 2013 08:27, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to everyone who joined last Wednesday's community call. We had some
> great discussion on initiatives and developments in Israel [1], Morocco
> and the US [2].
>
> We've recently been approached by the International Budget Partnership
> (IBP), because of our shared interest in budgetary reporting standards of
> governments. IBP conducts surveys on budget transparency and just today
> released the Open Budget Survey 2012, presented both as report and data
> explorer [3]. At IBP they are currently discussing if their survey
> definitions are sufficient or to what extent changes should be considered,
> in order to adequately reflect the recent developments of online posting,
> archiving and publishing of machine-readable fiscal data. To get a variety
> of ideas with regards to how spending and fiscal data can be included as
> indicators in future budgetary surveys, IBP has asked if we would like
> discuss this at our next community call.
>
> The Community Call will take place on Wednesday, January 30th 1900 CEST /
> 1300 EST [4 - check other timezones]
>
> Topic: What questions to ask when assessing fiscal transparency standards
> of governments?
>
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> We will follow up with another call on Wednesday February 13th, so let us
> know if you have ideas for topics to discuss.
>
> Hope to talk to many of you on Wednesday!
>
> All the best,
> Anders
>
> [1] http://www.hasadna.org.il/
> [2] http://www.publicsectorcredit.org/pscf.html
> [3] http://survey.internationalbudget.org/
> [4] http://bit.ly/146DB5d
>
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