State Finances Open Data Application Andrus Jõgi Advisor 27.10.2016

State Finances as Open Data riigiraha.fin.ee is a public online application that enables to analyze the whole government sector’s financial activities since 2004 up to today. revenues assets expenditures liabilities employees Application was launched in 2011 with local governments data. On January 2016 other governments sector data was added. More than 30 million records have been published, each consisting of 7 basic dimension (Data value is described by Entity, Period, Function, Account, Transaction partner, Source, Transaction Type). Data is monthly based. Latest data about the financial activities of government sector is available of July 2016. Application is bilingual: Estonian and English.

Accounting data of whole government sector Central government Social security funds Local governments NGOs, companies, foundations that belong to government sector Nothing was left out.

All data at one database freely accessible for creating insights unlimited ways What is unique about it is that we have published all the government sector accounting data at one database and we do not restrict the access to this data by pre-created views/reports etc. This enables users to build up limitless views depending on their needs. To illustrate the difference – when others are showing only pictures of Paris, we enable people to walk on the streets of Paris and collect their own memories of the city.

Visitors from all over the world 2014 April – 2016 August 10% are from abroad. Google analytics

Grow general public awareness Promote knowledge based discussions Objective Grow general public awareness Promote knowledge based discussions Increase the transparency Our objective is to grow general public awareness about government sector financial activities, to promote knowledge based discussions and to increase the transparency of government sector. We hope that it will have an effect on decreasing corruption and improper using the public money as everything can be monitored publicly and abnormalities will stand out when watching from right ankle.

The costs Total 160 000 Euros (180 000 $), including server ~12 eurocents per every resident Not even a half a position to administer it. About the half of the costs were funded by EU funds.

User cases Why: regional analyzes, market share and it’s potential, civil control, misuse of public funds, financial capacity, funding of 3rd sector, policy development, additionality control of EU Funds, forecasting etc. By who: officials, residents, State Audit Office, Police, Universities, Banks and other private companies, NGO-s etc.

Where does your tax money go? Interactive view where user can input his/hers monthly salary and look up where it goes. You can even look up how much is spent on your local governments libraries' electricity.

Market share and potential

Monitoring, analyzes, trends, correlations etc How are the local governments investments funded? Do they invest enough to cover depreciation? How the economic turndown affected the public activities?

Regional analyzes Are local services more expensive in rural and peripheral areas? How about the salary levels on kindergartens teachers?

Andrus Jõgi andrus.jogi@fin.ee Thank You Andrus Jõgi andrus.jogi@fin.ee