[OpenSpending] Join us for a City Spending Data Party and map the money near you - July 19th to 21st!

Tue Jul 2 11:27:17 UTC 2013

Hi all,

We are now announcing the global *City Spending Data Party - July 19th to
21st*. The Spending Data Party has become reality thanks to ideas and
comments from the OpenSpending community including
Hasadna<http://www.hasadna.org.il/en/>
 (israel), OpenBudgetOakland <http://openbudgetoakland.org/>,
OpenKratio<http://openspending.org/blog/2013/06/30/openkratio.org/>
 (Spain), BudgIT <http://yourbudgit.com/> (Nigeria), OKF
Japan<http://spending.jp/>
 and OKF Nepal <https://twitter.com/okfn_np> in the community. Join us and
open up some spending data near you!

Register for the *City Spending Data Party July 19th -
21st<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1uHNAh9cfP_F5nudGfhV8t0XnNPmFL7cXhkuqWHAMaR4/viewform>
*!

*Who:* You, other spending explorers in your city, and the rest of the
OpenSpending community

*Where:* In your city. Add it to the
list<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1Zh-TPxgMiFDrzk-rNJqL9CmCbbtlZmp2xjWlZ6T20TA/edit#heading=h.f0m4z18ez212>
of
places with activities.

*What to do at the Spending Data Party: *

*- *Get your hands on some budget or spending data from your city and add
it to OpenSpending. Analyse, wrangle and
visualise<http://openkratio.github.io/ugr-presupuestos/> the
data!

- Connect and learn from community trainings during the event via Google
Hangouts

- Tell the Open City Data Census <http://census.okfn.org/city/> about the
access to data in your city

- Share what you find!

*What to explore in the spending data: *

- Do you know how much your city actually spends on education compared to
what it spends on police?

- Do you want to help more people understand the budget of your city?
Maybe you can get ideas from
OpenBudgetOakland<http://openbudgetoakland.org/mayor_13-15_proposed.html>
who
created a site where citizens can comment and ask questions on the budget
proposal.

- Which companies works for your city and do they actually do a good job?
Cities such as London <http://openspending.org/gb-local-gla> and Washington
DC <http://openspending.org/dc-vendors-contractors> release transactional
spending data that allows you to see what companies clean up the garbage
and repair the roads. Let us open up spending data in more cities!

Register<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1uHNAh9cfP_F5nudGfhV8t0XnNPmFL7cXhkuqWHAMaR4/viewform>and
get in touch about your plans here on the mailing list. Also, check
the
 full announce post<http://openspending.org/blog/2013/06/30/spending-data-party-announce.html>
.
Best,
Anders

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Anders Pedersen

Community Coordinator  |  skype: anpehej  |  @anpe <https://twitter.com/>

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