Presentation of Open Spending Austria as nominated project for the Share and Reuse Award at the #SRCONF17

1. Offenerhaushalt.at
Open Spending Austria
29 March 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
by KDZ – Centre for Public
Administration Research

2. [Project/Solution name or Logo]
Agenda
• Context
• State of play
• Design
• Governance
• Impact and results
• Sustainability
• Next Steps

3. Situation for Citizens
after 5 Years of Open Data
• 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
• 2001-2015
• login credentials for mayors
• 5 standard visualisations
• download of data
• upload for municipal data
• iFrame versions
• free of charge
a turn-key
solution for public
sector spending:
“2-Click
Open
Government”

5. State of play: 14. 10. 2013

6. State of play: 24. 3. 2017

7. Design
• Open Source
o Drupal, mySQL
o D3.js
• DCAT-AP metadata

8. Governance: it‘s complex
funding partners
citizens, journalists
cities
technical implementation
operator and maintainer

9. Impact
>930 municipalities
>70% of population
>14000 data sets
>141000 visitors

10. Sustainability
• hard to reach out to
smaller municipalities
• some became members
of our association
• no business model yet
• additional services with
additional budget
Infrastructure
investment on a map
Visualisation of grants
and subsidies
Online game
Internal benchmarking
tool

11. Next steps
• data.offenerhaushalt.at just launched
• data upload from municipal finance software planned
• grants and subsidies of Innsbruck, Wels and Bregenz coming up
• develop a business model:
o get more municipalities to join in additional services
o premium services for paying customers?
• 8 more provinces auf Austria…
• sell/re-use it in other countries?

12. Contact Details
Follow us on Twitter @KDZ_Austria
Contact us at offenerhaushalt@kdz.or.at
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