Slides of a presentation at the public launch of the "Otwarty budżet" project - on open public finances data in Poland. Presented at the Open Government Data Camp, Warsaw, 20.10.2011.

1. Polish
Open
Budget
(and more)
Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska

2. Open data on
public finances:
budget (traditional / performance);
National Health Fund and other
appropriated funds; European
funds; national agencies
(missing: National Road Fund)

3. What we
started with:

4. What we did:
*Raw data for download
*Raw data accessible online

5. What we also did:
*Clean data into standard,
consistent, hierarchical
form
* Visualize data
* Dataviz competition

6. Why did we do this?
Data availability
Lead (the govt) by example
Engagement

7. Data availability
the layers model
(thank you,
Creative Commons!)
reuse only as good as
source data

8. Leading by example:
measure of success: Open
Budget @ MinFin
add-ons: search,
categorization

9. Engagement:
the hard question
(that the government does not
(necessarily) need to ask)

10. Engagement:
taget group: the
citizens?

11. Engagement:
taget group: the
citizens?
(and journalists,
researchers,
officials)

12. Engagement:
Human Readable Layer:
data viz?

13. Engagement:
Human Readable Layer:
stories about data

14. Engagement:
not with
financial data?

15. Engagement:
crowdsourcing
(apps!)
(but crowds don't
simply source)

16. otwartybudzet.pl
otwartedane.pl
rawsalad.centrumcyfrowe.pl

17. Thank you.
atarkowski@centrumcyfrowe.pl
@atarkowski
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