This is great news - well done to everyone involved in getting this far! It's wonderful to see the energy behind this project and bringing together OpenSpending and Escola de Dados will be a really powerful step in helping citizens understand public money and improve their local environments.
We'll be voting and supporting OKF-Br however we can :-) Best regards, Laura -- *Dr Laura JamesCEO * *skype: laura.james | *@LaurieJ <http://twitter.com/LaurieJ> Open Knowledge <http://okfn.org/> - See how data can change the world http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> <http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation. It is incorporated in England & Wales as a company limited by guarantee, with company number 05133759. VAT Registration № GB 984404989. Registered office address: Open Knowledge Foundation, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, UK. On 29 April 2014 16:12, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks! > > We are proud to announce we are finalists at the Google Global Impact > Challenge | Brazil! > > Our project deals with something that affects everybody: your pocket (in > our case, the Brazilian pocket :). Open Spending (Gastos Abertos in > Portuguese) will show you how the federal government of Brazil and the > state government of São Paulo are spending OUR money. We’ll do everything > through easy and interactive data visualizations. > > But we will not stop right there! We know that such a change in attitude > doesn’t come overnight. It requires a lot of effort and dedication. It > requires awareness. > > That’s why we’ll offer courses and tools so anyone will be able to use > Open Spending in efficient and striking ways, anywhere. We’ll create the > conditions for anyone to bring Open Spending to any city in the country, *a > la* School of Data (Escola de Dados here). When everyone changes their > realities, we change our country. > > *Please, vote in our project to help us transform > Brazil!*<https://desafiosocial.withgoogle.com/brazil2014/charity/open-knowledge-foundation> > > > https://desafiosocial.withgoogle.com/brazil2014/charity/open-knowledge-foundation > > Thank you! > > Tom > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre > http://br.okfn.org >
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