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'''* Report, Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public Finance.''' 

URL = http://openspending.org/resources/gift/index.html


=Description=


"Looking at government revenue, expenditure and off-budget information – we have attempted to identify projects from both governments and civil society which use innovative approaches to:

    Publish more or better data related to fiscal processes (aid, revenues, budgets, audits, etc. — see below),
    Help understand this data through the creation of better visualisation and data analysis tools,
    Educate citizens about fiscal processes, and assist civil society organisations promoting accountable governance,
    Facilitate direct participation in fiscal matters through participatory budgeting, citizen auditing and the like,
    Provide policymakers with complete and reliable data relevant to their work, enabling them to make better decisions.

We focussed in particular on the question: ‘Who are the users?’. We examined their motivations for getting involved, the scalability and applicability of given solutions to other contexts. The report also aims to highlight gaps that prevent users from taking up these tools."
(http://blog.okfn.org/2012/05/30/technology-for-transparent-and-accountable-public-finance-report-published/)


=Contents=

a quick overview of the contents:

    Chapter 1 – Introduction and Methodology
    Chapter 2 – Publishing Fiscal Data: Government Perspectives
    Chapter 3 – Using Fiscal Data: Civil Society Perspectives
    Chapter 4 – Standards for Fiscal Data: Towards an international framework
    Chapter 5 – Case Studies – Where Does the Money Come From?
    Chapter 6 – Case Studies – Where Does the Money Go?
    Chapter 7 – Case Studies – The Invisible Money
    Chapter 8 – Putting the Parts Together, OpenSpending and Publish What You Fund
    Final Observations and Review


=More Information=

#Accompanying the report is a project database – bit.ly/TTAPF-projects which contains many more projects that publish, analyse and demystify fiscal data. [https://bit.ly/TTAPF-projects]
#The section on participatory budgeting deserves special mention. We discovered so many projects that they merited their own listing, which can be found [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvoV_cBqwo28dE9fZy02NEt2UGxPTnRQMTEzaUhTOGc#gid=4 here]. 
#As we go through, we are building up a catalog of government finance portals in the ‘finance’ group of datacatalogs.org. [http://datacatalogs.org/group/finance]

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