Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 October 2015
Major open data milestone: Budgets and spending of all Dutch local governments
disclosed online
Today, financial reports, periodic budgets and expenses, of more than 400 Dutch
local and regional authorities are permanently available as open data and are
made visible through the website openspending.nl <http://openspending.nl/>.
Spending information of all Dutch local authorities are available from 2010 and
data will be automatically updated.
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With openspending.nl
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- now more than 15,000 financial reports are visible and comparable by
population, households and area. Various benchmarks can be made making it
possible to gain insight into the public spending of hundreds of local
governments in The Netherlands.
‘This is an important milestone for open spending. With the availability of
these reports as open data on such a scale, the Netherlands leads the world on
local open spending’, says Arjan El Fassed, director of Open State Foundation.
‘Open data of public finances offer local and regional council members,
journalists and citizens more opportunities to understand how governments spend
public money’.
The data is structured around the so-called iv3-standard. In 2013, Open State
Foundation started with unlocking the budget and expenses of the Amsterdam
Central District. In 2014, supported by the Dutch Ministry of Interior, Open
State Foundation started to request all municipalities, provinces and regional
water boards to share their financial data, annual and quarterly budgets and
spending. Within a year, more than 200 local and regional governments responded
positively.
This made eventually the Central Bureau of Statistics to decide to share the
raw data from iv3-reports, budgets and quarterly and annual financial
statements of all municipalities, provinces and water boards as open data and
automatically disclose future deliveries.
For the first time also the financial reports of common arrangements and
partnerships between different government authorities in the areas of safety,
administration, waste and environment. Until today, many elected
representatives have been side-lined when it comes to transparency and
monitoring such arrangements.
The availability of iv3-data is the first milestone towards financial
transparency. With this effort, now the three highest aggregated levels of
spending data are available. Research by VU University pointed out previously
that elected representatives, journalists and citizens need more detailed
information to track government spending. Therefore, Open State Foundation
works with, among others, the province and the municipality of Groningen on
disclosing more detailed financial reports as open data. The results will be
published later this year on openspending.nl
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