[OpenSpending] Open Contracting and OKCon

Tue Apr 1 15:51:32 UTC 2014

Thanks Julia. I'm working with Michael on this. Really enjoyed your
reports. The tools are still a bit in beta at the moment, but would
certainly appreciate any feedback when things stabilize a bit.

On 28 March 2014 14:14, Julia Keserű <jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:

> The list looks great Michael. Let us know if you need any help from us!
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Michael Roberts <
> michaelr at webfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Julia,
>>
>> This is useful indeed. There is some overlap with the countries we have
>> prioritized.
>> We are using the following tool here
>> http://open-contracting.github.io/2014/03/04/opendatacomparisonbeta.html to
>> capture metadata around the datasets.
>>
>> The priority countries we currently are looking at include:
>> Canada, Uruguay, Korea, Philippines, Moldova, Mexico, NYC Checkbook, UK
>> Contracts Finder (regular + planning), Costa Rica, Colombia (just
>> document links), Peru, Georgia, Chile, Brazil, EU, UN Office of Projects
>> Services
>> The list is based in part on data availability, contact points, current
>> OCP missions, as well ensuring sample datasets cover the various phases of
>> the procurement process and different types of publishers.
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>>  Michael Roberts
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Julia Keserű <
>> jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:
>>
>> Michael, what are the countries that you have identified so far? Sunlight
>> did a little bit of `research` last summer around how countries disclose
>> their procurement data, might be useful for your work:
>> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/03/so-how-do-other-countries-perform-when-it-comes-to-procurement-transparency/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:51 AM, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Friedrich,
>>>
>>> great to hear Civio is approaching this!
>>>
>>>  Well, at least we'll try (very hard); so many things to fix around
>>> here! :D
>>>
>>> The only way I'm using this right now is to integrate those with regards
>>> to EU agencies into OpenInterests.eu <http://openinterests.eu/>(QuienManda for the EU ;). I would like to make the full dataset available,
>>> and of course a data standard would enable that extract to be used in
>>> shared tools.
>>>
>>> More than happy to give you a CSV/SQL/... to play with (or access to the
>>> EC's ftp site).
>>>
>>>  I saw OpenInterests, looks great; and I immediately thought about
>>> whether we can link/reuse some of that data from our side, but I haven't
>>> had the chance to work on it for the last few months.
>>>
>>>  What we want to do on our side is very similar to OpenTED, but for a
>>> very ugly spanish procurement site. So I don't need your data right now,
>>> but I'll definitely get in touch with you (and/or OpenContracting) when we
>>> start working on it, try to use the same data formats. In parallel we also
>>> need to scrape some ugly company register PDFs, I discussed it briefly with
>>> Open Corporates. All this, hopefully, at some point in 2014. ;)
>>>
>>>  Can't make it to the Brussels hackathon I'm afraid, but we'll be around
>>> in OKCon.
>>>
>>> /david
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