[OpenSpending] Open Contracting and OKCon

Fri Mar 28 17:28:55 UTC 2014

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
@michaeloroberts | michaelr at webfoundation.org
World Wide Web Foundation | 1110 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC, 20005  USA | www.webfoundation.org | Twitter: @webfoundation

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 (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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