Innovative approaches on the use of fiscal data by civil society organizations and citizens Fiscal Transparency & Citizen Engagement in the Budget Process: Lessons from Around the World Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. March 28, 2019 Lorena Rivero del Paso Manager for Technical Cooperation and Collaboration lorena@fiscaltransparency.net @LorenaRDP

FISCAL TRANSPARENCY FOR WHAT? Better policies (Efficiency / Efficacy) Trust FISCAL TRANSPARENCY FOR WHAT? Fiscal Sustainability Prevent mismanagement … …

Where and how does fiscal transparency start?

Demand Supply

Who is in the demand side? 5 minutes to write down something, they won’t share it.

Focalization The Expert The Not so Expert The Tourist

Innovative approaches from civil society organizations: Platforms+Data+SocialMedia 5 minutes to write down something, they won’t share it.

BudgIT

ACIJ

CIEP

Tracka.NG

Creative use of technology… MACHINE LEARNING FOR USER-CENTERED APPROACH

Use cases: Civil society, Chile Survey of data interests based in Facebook artificial intelligence to improve communication targets Chatbot (soon)

Use cases: Civil society, Brazil Uses the transactions, credit card payments and contract data to find patterns and create stories

Use cases: General Public, Brazil Uses the transactions, credit card payments and contract data to find patterns and create stories 10 Friends + 600 volunteers

What if there is interest but… Lack of knowledge? Lack of capacity? 5 minutes to write down something, they won’t share it.

Budget and data literacy efforts from civil society 5 minutes to write down something, they won’t share it.

INESC Training in public budgeting for indigenous and quilombola youth, with special attention to the following areas: health, land rights, socio-environmental agenda and food and nutrition security Interested? Read more

Institute of Public Finance (Croatia) and Institute Aternativa (Montenegro) “Open Budget School” The objective is to give opportunity to the representatives of civil society organizations, public officials and the media to learn the basics of budget system and management of public finances, as well as to acquire the necessary knowledge for monitoring the use of public money and participation Interested? Read more

SocialTic + School of Data + Ministry of Finance How to understand the Budget Massive Open Online Course (Open EdX). Abilities to use open data and interpret budget classifications, structure, levels of government in Budget… Interested? Watch webinar

Takeaways

Supply side of information is important BUT so is the demand side and demand side is not only budget experts oriented Users can create different analysis and value through fiscal transparency BUT sometimes it is necessary to foster the abilities required, collaboration among GVT and civil society gives great opportunity Digitalization gives great opportunity for innovative use of fiscal transparency BUT complement with traditional tools to reach out to vulnerable populations

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