How to build a budget transparency site: 5 easy steps
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5 easy steps to building a budget monitoring
site
Lucy Chambers@lucyfedia / @openspending
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CC-By v3 Licensed (all jurisdictions)
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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
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Create tools, skills and communities
Data => KnowledgeKnowledge => Action
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OpenSpendingA global community:
Creating an open map of government money
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THE STEPS
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RALLY!
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STEP 1:
What question are you trying to answer? /
What problem are you trying to solve?
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Help citizens understand political processes?
Source: The Guardian
HINT: DON’T USE FLASH!
Source: Meieraha.eu
Source: Budget Allocator
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Help citizens see how government spending
relates to them personally?
Source: Budzeti.baSource: WhereDoesMyMoneyGo.org
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Help correct misconceptions?
Source: AMiPenzunk.hu
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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
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Push for more, better information
Source:Cameroon.OpenSpending.org
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STEP 2: FindGet
Clean
NOTE: These steps take approximately 70% of
the time on most OpenSpending projects
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Supply-side obstacles preventing re-use of data
No bulk download
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Governments often don’t like to release financial data
Ministry of Finance reacts to FOI-request for the 2013 budget data
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Sometimes data is only available in paper copy
Government official: “Please receive our annual audit reports in this stack of papers.”
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Even when released electronically, data is still rarely machine readable
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It’s work to clean up and format!
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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
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STEP 3: Analyse
Transform
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National budget data
Map it to international COFOG classifications (then translate to human)
Advanced:Compare the budget
to the actual spent amount
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STEP 4: Present
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A quick quiz
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Visualisation ToolsOpenSpending
http://openspending.org/ DataWrapper
http://datawrapper.de/ D3.js
http://d3js.org/
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Some last tips ;-)
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STEP 5: RALLY!
Ask yourself: ● What is my call to action?● Is it easy to find? ● Are there opportunities for people to get
more deeply involved?
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Ask yourself, is a site the right delivery mechanism?
Source: priceofthestate.org
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Collaborate and you will win!
Get your friends together and build broad coalitions
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So let’s get to work!
The OpenSpending community is always in your corner!
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My calls to action
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http://okfn.org/[email protected]
http://openspending.org/ http://apps.openspending.
org/oscontactsmap/
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