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• OpenSpending Community Hangout: Revised Date – Thursday 14th May

  Posted:Tue, 05 May 2015 09:57:37 +0000

  Our next community hangout will be on Thursday 14th May at 17:00 BST. If you haven’t signed up yet and you’d like to come along, please add your name to the OpenSpending Hangout Scratchpad. We’re looking for volunteers to give lightning talks and short updates from around the community – if you are interested in […]

• Announcing A New Architectural Roadmap for OpenSpending

  Posted:Wed, 15 Apr 2015 20:51:10 +0000

    At the 2015 Open Data Day a proposal for a new vision for the approach and architecture of OpenSpending was approved. It opens up an exciting opportunity for open budget initiatives around the world to work more closely together, whilst remaining independent. In a nutshell:   We want to centralize data but decentralize ‘presentation’ […]

• OpenSpending Community Hangout in April: Suggested Theme and Vote for the Date!

  Posted:Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:38:57 +0000

  As some of you may know already, I’m delighted to now be working with the Open Spending community as community manager. I really look forward to meeting you all at our April Community Hangout! Going forward, we thought it might be a good idea to plan each of our hangouts around a theme – since a […]

• Presenting public finance just got easier

  Posted:Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:07:09 +0000

  This blog post is cross-posted from the CKAN blog. CKAN 2.3 is out! The world-famous data handling software suite which powers data.gov, data.gov.uk and numerous other open data portals across the world has been significantly upgraded. How can this version open up new opportunities for existing and coming deployments? Read on. One of the new […]

• How to create a budget data package

  Posted:Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:43:55 +0000

  This tutorial will show you how to create a budget data package from a (relatively clean) spreadsheet dataset by walking you through the process of converting the Armenian budget from the Open Budgets Portal. Getting started The Armenia BOOST government expenditure database contains planned, adjusted, and executed expenditures covering the years 2006 to 2012. It […]

• In Cameroon, budget transparency one council at a time

  Posted:Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:29:36 +0000

  How a tool like OpenSpending can help to better channel public spending into basic services in Cameroon. Version française In Cameroon, forest exploitation yield lots of money. Wood is indeed the third largest source of exports of the country, following oil and cocoa. In return, every logging company must pay a tax whose a part goes […]

• Au Cameroun, la transparence budgétaire, village par village

  Posted:Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:11:31 +0000

  Comment un outil comme OpenSpending peut aider à mieux orienter les dépenses publiques vers les services de base au Cameroun. English version here Au Cameroun, l’exploitation des forêts rapporte beaucoup d’argent. Le bois est ainsi la troisième source d’exportation du pays, après le pétrole et le cacao. En contrepartie, chaque entreprise du secteur doit s’acquitter […]

• A specification for Budget Data: Introducing the Budget Data Package

  Posted:Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:57:23 +0000

  As we descend into the buzz of the biggest week of the open calendar at OKFestival, the OpenSpending team wanted to quickly drop you a line about a piece of research we have been collaborating on together with the International Budget Partnership, Omidyar Network, and Google: a draft specification for budget data. As members of […]

• Meet OpenSpending version 0.13.0

  Posted:Thu, 08 May 2014 16:35:47 +0000

  This is going to be a slightly technical post (and has already been posted to the developer mailing list), but still it’s an important change so everyone is encouraged to read it. If you don’t understand something, then that’s just fine, it probably does not have anything to do with you and you can skip […]

• Hackathon #ODD14 Barcelona

  Posted:Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:59:43 +0000

  On Saturday, February 22, International OpenDataDay (ODD), opengov.cat coordinated a hackathon for the first time. It took place in the great working space Makers of Barcelona. A hackathon is a meeting of journalists, programmers, and developers to work on a specific project. There were about twenty people, and we suggested three challenges to make different […]

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