Hi Tiago, Out of interest, who do you think runs the very best budget transparency websites or mobile services in the world?
best, Tom 2009/9/15 Tiago Peixoto <[email protected]>: > Hello Tom, > > There's a wealth of experiences on budget transparency websites, both govt. > led initiatives as well as CSO led. Many recent initiatives across the world > are very much linked to the current financial crisis and the funds that are > being committed to addressing the economic downturn. Nonetheless, they give > a good picture of how ICTs are being used in budget transparency. > > In the case of the United States this trend is particularly noticed at the > sub-national level (i.e. state and local) given the reporting and > transparency requirements that are set for governments in order for them to > receive funds. Here's a couple of the US state govt. websites that have been > considered as good initiatives by watchdog organizations: > > > > http://www.statestat.maryland.gov/recovery.asp > > http://colorado.gov/recovery > > http://recovery.wa.gov/ > > However, this is not an exclusive US or government phenomenon, with other > countries and CSOs using the web intensively to enhance budget transparency, > as the awesome Kenyan case proves so well. > > I am working on a report on the subject at the moment, and I will make sure > I share the results as soon as they are available. It builds on more than 50 > initiatives of budget transparency across the world. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tiago > >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:21:17 +0100 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Kenyan Budget Tracking >> >> Dear Karin, >> >> 2009/9/7 Karin Christiansen <[email protected]>: >> > There is a whole load of stuff doing on increasingly of this ilk- if >> > there >> > is interest in this group, I am happy to do intros to International >> > Budget >> > Programme and other individual developers working on this kind of thing. >> >> I am absolutely and definitely interested, but in particular at the >> more techy end of the scale. Who builds the very best budget >> transparency website out there, for example? >> >> best, >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > ________________________________ > Achetez un nouveau PC et bénéficiez de Windows 7 dès sa sortie ! En savoir > plus > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
