[OpenSpending] OpenSpending Blog Post About Detroit

Wed Jul 31 22:10:45 UTC 2013

Hi all,

To follow up, Marc published today this piece on the fiscal health of
Canadian Municipalities:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/07/31/detroit-and-the-lost-history-of-canadian-municipal-insolvencies/

Great to see shout outs for Gabe from Toronto mentioned there as well. From
the post:

"We can make that information more accessible. Recently, Gabe Sawhney,
director at Urban+Digital Toronto <http://www.urbandigital.ca/>, and a
group of colleagues in Toronto used a suite of open source tools published
by the Open Knowledge Foundation <http://www.okfn.com/> to create
visualizations <http://gabesawhney.com/?p=384> of their city’s budget. Why
not replicate that for all Canadian cities?
This is great work Marc!

Best,
Anders

On 30 July 2013 14:29, Marc Joffe <marc at publicsectorcredit.org> wrote:

> Thanks to Anders’ encouragement, my thoughts about Detroit’s bankruptcy
> and open data/analytics are now immortalized as a blog post at
> http://blog.openspending.org/2013/07/29/predicting-city-bankruptcies-with-open-data-the-case-of-detroit/
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