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OpenSpending
- analysis and visualisation of budget and spending data for
government
Anders PedersenKnowledge Development Lead
Open Knowledge @anpe, @OpenSpending
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Open Knowledge
Open Knowledge is a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge.
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Why budget transparency
Why OpenSpending
OpenSpending - a critical component of the open data ecosystem.
Creating the opportunity for governments, civil-society organizations and communities on budgets, spending and procurements:● Providing easy-to-use tools to publish, analyse and visualise
budget and spending data ● Offer analytics and comparative dashboards that can help
governments to understand budgets and spending● Drive good data practises by endorsing simple budget data
specifications, which helps citizens to use and compare budget and spending data, with other data sources in the open data ecosystem
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What is transparency good for?
Why governments need OpenSpending?
● Understand spending patterns: "Why is department of Education spending 50 pct. more in October than in September?
● Detect corruption in outliers: "Why is municipality X spending so differently than 500 other municipalities"?
● Predicts budget short falls
● Track compliance of budget reporting from agencies, regions or municipalities (most people really like dashboards!)
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Making sense of budget information
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Significant community uptake
OpenSpending in Japan (2012-2013)● Community of +100 volunteers● +130 local deployments of city-
based Daily Bread tax calculators
● Community events and bottom up impact
Coverage: http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2013/aug/28/japanese-cities-adopts-open-spending-portal/
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Impact
A few successes In Germany after the release of OffenerHaushalt, there were around 90 other offers to open up other data for visualisations; including model legislation based on OpenSpending
Breaking data silos and providing insight: OpenSpending was used to connect aid & budgets for the first time in Uganda - providing the government with important new insight;
Community driven sites already in over 50 locations globally, at international, national, local and institutional level;
Volunteer powered investigations into spending data at Spending Data Parties;
Used both by governments & civil society (Romania, Uruguay, UK).
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OpenSpending and governments
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UK spend browser
The UK Spend Browser developed for data.gov.uk. Key functions:● reconciles
unstructured spreadsheets from across departments
● makes government spending searchable across agencies
● Implemented in 2012
Spend browser: make spending searchable for government and public
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How well do government agencies report?
The UK Spend Reporting Dashboard developer for data.gov.uk. Key functions:● reconciles unstructured
spreadsheets from across departments
● makes government spending searchable across agencies
● Customized browser
Reporting dashboard: benchmark agencies → drive reporting compliance
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Why standardised release matters
The OpenSpending Budget Data Package project: ● Why: budget standards → improve data flows, enable
better analytics and visualisations● What we've done: six months in-depth research into best
practises around budget data● Next: budget specification → stress test with studies in
specific countries, develop new visualisation tools● budget standards → automatic loading of budget data =
better monitoring of compliance. ● Prevent releases without standards: PDFs releases =
minimal data re-use and analysis
Better budgetary standards → improved release monitoring and sharing
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Pilot budget transparency
Government of Mexico (2013)● Visualisation of the
natural disaster fund● Customised bubble
chart with breakdown by aid type
● Tailored map of 32 provinces developed in-house
● Next step: OpenSpending / CKAN integration
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OpenSpending - civil society use cases
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cameroon.openspending.org
Created for the World Bank (2012):● local budget data loaded
by Open Knowledge and local agency
● Contract on second phase just signed
Cameroon: Creating a bespoke front end to display regional budgets
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Bespoke local sites
budzeti.ba created for BiH CSO (2013):● highly customised
tax calculations● bespoke frontend
Bosnia: Local customization on tax information