Ljubljana, 23 August 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The Slovenian Commission for the Prevention of Corruption has announced a new web service that makes government expenditures (since 2003) visible and transparent for the public. The service called Supervizor gives access to data and allows for analysis.
A google ...
Washington DC, 10 August 2011
(by Daniel Dietrich)
Facing the current financial crisis the US Congress passed through the “Debt Ceiling” bill. The Debt Ceiling bill recently signed into law creates a congressional committee (nicknamed the “Super Congress”) that will make the decision on how to cut $1.5 trillion from the national debt. Even as this power is given to 12 members of Congress, the new law says very little about how open it should be. Only the first meeting, the ultimate report and the vote on the final product are required to be public.
The...
London, 26 June 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
In the run-up to the OKCon at the end of this week the project OpenSpending has been formally launched. OpenSpending visualizes spending of various governments and public bodies. Current examples are Italian regional spending, UK departmental spending and the Israeli budget.
At present, the OpenSpending interface allows you to:
Washington DC, 24 May 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The Sunlight Foundation discusses in an article the letter that US federal CIO Vivek Kundra sent to US Senator Carper on the impact that budget cuts will have on e-government programs.
Last month it became known that the total budget for these e-government programs would be cut by more than 75% from 34 million US dollars last year to 8 million this year. As a consequence "no project will go...
Rome, 19 april 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
At a high level event in Italy's parliament called "La Politica della Trasparenza e dei Dati Aperti" (the politics of transparency and open data) Open Spending Italy was launched. The Open Spending project aims to collect and visualize spending data from as many countries as possible, and builds upon the work of "Where does my money go?"....
Washington DC, 12 April 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
Already for three weeks there has been talk of transparency websites like data.gov, USAspending.gov and other similar projects, including internal programs, being under threat by the budget cuts currently debated in the US Congress. All of these projects...
London, 19 November 2010,
In a session this morning Francis Maude, the UK Minister for the Cabinet Office, released departmental spending data over 25.000 pounds. This release, in the presence of a large group of participants in the Open Government Data Camp that is being organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, is the single most detailed release of public spending data. Developers and data journalists under embargo already had access to the data for a week, so the release comes with visualization...
The UK Government HM Treasury has announced in the UK Parliament and published the Budget Statement.
Chapter 6 of the Budget report titled: Protecting public service’s states:
“Opening up Data
6.51 The Government has delivered on its Smarter Government2 commitments to open up data,...
