1. OpenSpending - analysis and visualisation of budget and spending data for government Anders Pedersen Knowledge Development Lead Open Knowledge @anpe, @OpenSpending

2. Open Knowledge Open Knowledge is a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge.

3. Why budget transparency Why OpenSpending OpenSpending - a critical component of the open data ecosystem. Creating the opportunity for governments, civil-society organizations and communities on budgets, spending and procurements: ●Providing easy-to-use tools to publish, analyse and visualise budget and spending data ●Offer analytics and comparative dashboards that can help governments to understand budgets and spending ●Drive good data practises by endorsing simple budget data specifications, which helps citizens to use and compare budget and spending data, with other data sources in the open data ecosystem

4. What is transparency good for? Why governments need OpenSpending? ●Understand spending patterns: "Why is department of Education spending 50 pct. more in October than in September? ●Detect corruption in outliers: "Why is municipality X spending so differently than 500 other municipalities"? ●Predicts budget short falls ●Track compliance of budget reporting from agencies, regions or municipalities (most people really like dashboards!)

5. Making sense of budget information

6. Significant community uptake OpenSpending in Japan (2012-2013) ●Community of +100 volunteers ●+130 local deployments of city- based Daily Bread tax calculators ●Community events and bottom up impact Coverage: http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2013/aug/28/j apanese-cities-adopts-open-spending-portal/ http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2013/aug/28/j apanese-cities-adopts-open-spending-portal/

7. Impact A few successes In Germany after the release of OffenerHaushalt, there were around 90 other offers to open up other data for visualisations; including model legislation based on OpenSpending Breaking data silos and providing insight: OpenSpending was used to connect aid & budgets for the first time in Uganda - providing the government with important new insight; Community driven sites already in over 50 locations globally, at international, national, local and institutional level; Volunteer powered investigations into spending data at Spending Data Parties; Used both by governments & civil society (Romania, Uruguay, UK).

8. OpenSpending and governments

9. UK spend browser The UK Spend Browser developed for data.gov.uk. Key functions: ●reconciles unstructured spreadsheets from across departments ●makes government spending searchable across agencies ●Implemented in 2012 Spend browser: make spending searchable for government and public

10. How well do government agencies report? The UK Spend Reporting Dashboard developer for data.gov.uk. Key functions: ●reconciles unstructured spreadsheets from across departments ●makes government spending searchable across agencies ●Customized browser Reporting dashboard: benchmark agencies → drive reporting compliance

11. Why standardised release matters The OpenSpending Budget Data Package project: ●Why: budget standards → improve data flows, enable better analytics and visualisations ●What we've done: six months in-depth research into best practises around budget data ●Next: budget specification → stress test with studies in specific countries, develop new visualisation tools ●budget standards → automatic loading of budget data = better monitoring of compliance. ●Prevent releases without standards: PDFs releases = minimal data re-use and analysis Better budgetary standards → improved release monitoring and sharing

12. Pilot budget transparency Government of Mexico (2013) ●Visualisation of the natural disaster fund ●Customised bubble chart with breakdown by aid type ●Tailored map of 32 provinces developed in- house ●Next step: OpenSpending / CKAN integration

13. OpenSpending - civil society use cases

14. cameroon.openspending.org Created for the World Bank (2012): ●local budget data loaded by Open Knowledge and local agency ●Contract on second phase just signed Cameroon: Creating a bespoke front end to display regional budgets

15. Bespoke local sites budzeti.ba created for BiH CSO (2013): ●highly customised tax calculations ●bespoke frontend Bosnia: Local customization on tax information

16. Thank you! anders.pedersen@okfn.organders.pedersen@okfn.org | @anpe