Open Siope Tools for users
Study visit Ministry of finance of Turkey
Rome, 26 May 2016
Directorate General for Markets and Payment Systems Treasury Services Directorate
G. Ivaldi
• 16 June 2014: Siope data become “freely accessible” by law
Political goal:
Accountability and transparency
“Transparency of government expenditure is necessary. Free access to Siope data allows public
entities and, most of all, citizens to monitor every day public payments and receipts. We must go
further along this road”. (Del Rio, under-secretary PdCM, 2014)
2015 – Also thanks to Open-Siope Italy gained 8 positions in the Global Open Data
Index
Open Siope
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• From operational tool for Public entities (12.000 users) to instrument for
information and transparency for any users
• 2015-2016: more reports and tools available on www.Siope.it tailored to
new Siope users
Developments
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From 32.000 (average) accesses per year (until 2014)
Access to Siope website - Statistics
1 million in 2015
To
Users
• Until June 2014
1. Public entities
2. Treasurer banks
• …… and after opening to the general public
1. Public entities
2. Treasurer banks
3. Citizens
4. Analysts/Researchers/Journalists
5. Re-users of Siope data
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Public entities can
• Download reports (receipts, payments, cash availability) to be attached to the
financial statements
• Check information sent to Siope by their treasurer bank
• Access their own financial situation through indicators produced by Siope
• Compare their own performance with a peer group - benchmarking
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Public entities Indicators produced by Siope
800000047 – Municipality of Rome
Expenditure indicators
Current expenditure / Total expenditure
Current primary expenditure/ Total expenditure
Capital expenditure / Total expenditure
Personnel cost/ Current expenditure
Current transfers / Current expenditure
Intermediate consumption/ Current expenditure
Revenue indicators
Financial autonomy
Taxation power
Transfer dependence
Other indicators
Taxation power
Per capita indicators
Expenditures
Per capita current expenditure
Per capita primary current expenditure
Per capita personnel expenditure
Per capita intermediate consumption
Per capita capital expenditure
Revenues
Per capita current revenues
Per capita capital revenues
Per capita tax revenues
Per capita non –tax revenues
Per capita current transfers and contributions
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Citizens/Analysts/Reaserchers/Journalists can
• Monitor entities’ financial choices
• Compare the financial situation of the entity with other peer entities
• Download data, analize the trend of one or more variables
• Download the whole database
Data journalism
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Definition
Data journalism is a journalism specialty reflecting the increased role that numerical data have in the production and distribution of information in the digital era.
• For each year they can download data (receipts and payments) for all
entities
• Bulk files are not available through API (Application Programming
Interface), but there are data with fixed url to allow easier download to
applications
• Files are in CSV (Comma-Separated Values) format, compliant with
RFC-4180 specifications
• Data reuse is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International license.
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Re-users