My presentation from the Open Government Partnership 2013 summit in London.
Lessons learned from our experience building OpenSpending sites around the world.
How to build a budget transparency site: 5 easy steps
1. 5 easy steps to building
a budget monitoring
site
PRESENTED BY
Lucy Chambers
@lucyfedia / @openspending
CC-By v3 Licensed (all jurisdictions)
2. Quick overview
● The key steps in producing a
budget monitoring site
● Tools you can use to help you along
the way
● Things to ask for from your
government
● A quiz
● Lots of animated images
10. Strip PR from dialogue
around budgets spending?
“My Name is XXXX, I am a member of the Kenyan parliament for the
constituency of XXXX in the 2007-2012 election cycle. During my time in
parliament, I have positioned myself against taxes for MPs.
Of the Development Funds allocated to my constituency, I have spent 12mn
KSH in 2010 and 8mn KSH in 2009. Since 2007, I’ve funded 201 projects, of
which 72 (9mn KSH) related to Education, 56 (7.2mn KSH) related to Health
and 20 (4.2mn KSH) to Infrastructure.
The largest projects I have funded include… “
- See more at: http://community.openspending.org/2012/01/hakuna-my-data-nbo-data-bootcamp/#sthash.XaRj9NdO.dpuf
11. Push for more, better
information
Source:Cameroon.OpenSpending.org
18. Some data cleaning tools can help!
● Excel & Google Spreadsheets for basic
cleaning
● Open Refine - for cleaning spreadsheets
● Tabula - for converting PDF-tables
Resources from Open Knowledge Foundation:
●
School of Data
20. National budget data
Map it to international
COFOG classifications
(then translate to
human)
Advanced:
Compare the budget
to the actual spent amount