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OpenSpending: Building a Global Database
of Public Finances
Washington, DC - Wolfram Data Summit 2013
Anders Pedersen @openspending / @anpe
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PowerKnowledge is
Open Knowledge is
EmPowerment
We work to open up information & see it transformed into open knowledge that empowers citizens and organizations to better understand their world and effect positive change.
Advocacy and Evangelism toOpen up Data & Content
Create tools, skills and communities
Data => KnowledgeKnowledge => Action
OpenSpendingA global community
Creating an open map of the money
From streetlights to international aid
Why do build a global database of spending
data?
We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant's books so that every member of congress and every man of any mind ... should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently control them.
President Thomas Jefferson to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, 1802
Remember #Muffingate?
Case: Working Links (UK)
72 contracts or 7,400 transactions (2010-2012)
“The private sector shareholders are Capgemini, a consultancy with extensive public sector contracts, and Manpower, a recruitment firm. The charitable owner is Mission Australia, which works with troubled families and children. The British Government holds a stake, managed by the Shareholder Executive.”Source: The Daily Telegraph,
What we do
Development aid
Help citizens map spending in their communityCharter school spending in Washington DC
Budget vs. spending data (Brazil)
Still big issues to solve
Access in more countriesUSASpending (federal): 2007Brazil (federal): 2009United Kingdom: 2010Slovenia: 2011Greece: 2012
Not exactly a ripple effect...
Data is not machine readable
Data is messyUnited Kingdom: 3327 data sets released without any standard No unique identifiers
What is next for OpenSpending?
More types of dataRevenues from extractive industries (following Section 1504 of Dodd-Frank)Procurement dataTaxation dataCompany data
Broaden the community
Nepal: Building connections between developers, journalists and aid specialists
Build initiatives bottom-upJapan: Budget sites in 45 cities
Demonstrate relevance
Deploy tools to dig into spending data patterns
Connect the dots: individuals and government contracts
Exploding Info Complexity
In 1820s all UK bank clearing done in a single room in London once a day. Today, billions of transactions a minute.
Data is a PlatformNot a Commodity
We Build on ItNot Sell It
Becoming theOpen
Knowledge Society