2. Transparency of
spending reports
• total of 2100 municipalities in Austria
• smaller municipalities: print version in the town hall
• larger cities provide ~300 page PDF documents online
• 9 municipalities on Open Data portal data.gv.at = 0.4 %
• 5 visualisations = 0.2%
• international examples: mostly individual projects
4. Solution
• data from ALL municipalities
• 2001-2017
• login credentials for mayors
• 5 standard visualisations
• download of data
• upload for municipal data
• iFrame versions
• free of charge
2 clicks
for disclosure
of data and
visualisations
18. • Comparison of own municipality with 1 or 2 others
• Comparison with reference values
Internal Benchmarking
19. and more…
• switch between absolute values and per capita values
• municipalities can add comments
• municipalities have a benchmarking function
• news section and information pages
• stable URLs for each municipality
• data.offenerhaushalt.at offers filters for data and
metadata descriptions
20. >1000 municipalities
>75% of population
>17500 data sets
>85000 visitors
>5000 sessions/month
Summary
a turn-key solution
for public sector
spending:
“2-Click
Open Government”
22. Performance Management
• we only have data on budget and spending
– KDZ Quicktest as indicator on financial soundness
• we only have data from municipalities (yet)
• performance oriented data is not connected (yet)
• data is either
– not available at all
– not openly available
– not detailed enough
So we need, more Open Government Data!
most of the individual project cover 1 or 2 years
1 of them covers current data
We need to move from individual projects to services.
We need to empower municipalities to do open data in a very simple way.
The map of Austria with participating municipalities when whe started in 2013 with three pilot municipalities. Ad look what happened since then.
The main visualisation is the well known tree-map with the political view. It covers three levels. From „Education“ to „PreSchool education“ and then to „Kindergarten“.
The economic view show the types of expenditure (e. g. personnell, financial)
The detailed view shows the development of spending and revenues over time, back to 2001.
A special visualisation „Where does Tax Money go“ analyzes for what areas taxpayers money has to be used. (Areas where fees cover the costs are excluded).
The KDZ quicktest is a set of 5 indicators that sum up to a quicktest value indicating the financial soundness of a municipality.
Debts and liabilities are displayed over time.
The city of Salzburg organized a youth congress in 2014 – we developed a short online game to be played at the venue.
Young people were asked a question about municipal spending. They had to guess an amount.
For a special visualisation of grants and subsidies, the municipalities have to provide additional data that is not included in the usual spending reports. Currently Salzburg, Linz, Bregenz and Wels use this service.
For the city of Salzburg, data in investments in infrastructure is displayed on a map.