"Polish open budget" project

PolishOpen

Budget(and more)

Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska

Open data on public finances:

budget (traditional / performance); National Health Fund and other appropriated funds; European

funds; national agencies(missing: National Road Fund)

What westarted with:

What we did:*Raw data for download

*Raw data accessible online

What we also did:*Clean data into standard,

consistent, hierarchical form

* Visualize data* Dataviz competition

Why did we do this?Data availability

Lead (the govt) by exampleEngagement

Data availabilitythe layers model

(thank you,Creative Commons!)

reuse only as good as source data

Leading by example:measure of success: Open

Budget @ MinFinadd-ons: search,

categorization

Engagement:the hard question

(that the government does not (necessarily) need to ask)

Engagement:taget group: the

citizens?

Engagement:taget group: the

citizens?(and journalists, researchers,

officials)

Engagement:Human Readable Layer:

data viz?

Engagement:Human Readable Layer:

stories about data

Engagement:not with

financial data?

Engagement:crowdsourcing

(apps!)(but crowds don't

simply source)

otwartybudzet.plotwartedane.pl

rawsalad.centrumcyfrowe.pl

Thank [email protected]

@atarkowski

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