Web economics Economy after the Web: knowledge and networks

Publicspending.gr: network analysis in public expenditureM. Vafopoulos, I. Anagnostopoulos, M. Meimaris, M. Klonaras, I. Xidias, A. Papantoniou, G. Vafeiadis, V. Loumos and G. Alexiou

Multimedia Technology Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,National Technical University of Athens

(initial) scopeto provide an objective layer of information that will enable citizens, journalists, business people and politicians to re-discover their own stories from data.22The Cl@rity program in GreeceA revolution in open governmentex-ante reporting of every state decision paradigm shift for 40K public servants

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3The Cl@rity program in Greecemanifests the value of procrastination principle (again)strong rival to the Clientelistic stateThe new version under development (delivery: end of 2013) 44PSGR: publicspending.gr2011: I believed that the Clarity program is the open data gold (& persuaded 7 more people)

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5PSGR: publicspending.gr2012: with some dust and rocks in a deep goldmine

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6PSGR: publicspending.gr2013: time to chisel some jewelry 7

7Advanced Search 8

8Linked Data9

9Business profiles10

10Spending in my area11

11public spending networks

The brokerssize: Betweeness Centrality, color: Hub Ranking 13

important payees and payers14

the Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (OTE) has the highest in-degree (green arrows=incoming payment). the Ministry of Public Order has the highest out-degree (red arrows=outgoing payment). 14competition15

15public spending -> economics

16Prices

16Going global: AUSTRALIA

1717Sum upLOD apps can change the worldEconomic LOD is the natural nucleus of the ecosystemNetwork analysis a basic tool to analyze & visualize Linked Data1818Real-time open data?

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