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2 | 1 | Subsidios al Campo | balance (see issues with EU registry) | Data retrieved using FOI laws | Subsidios al Campo ("farm subsidies") is a collaborative project by a public interest group, a peasant organization, and a group of academics and technical experts that uses Mexico’s freedom of information (FOI) laws to obtain official data on the recipients of agricultural subsidies, which they then analyze and disseminate widely through a user-friendly website. In addition to making data available through its online database, partners in the project analyze the subsidy information and use it to advocate for more equitable subsidy allocations and, more broadly, changes in rural policy in Mexico. | By creating and maintaining its online public database, Subsidios al Campo improved the transparency of government farm subsidies, and its analyses of this data identified a disproportionate, and inequitable, concentration of subsidy recipients in the wealthiest 10 percent of farmers. It also generates easily accessible information and inform the public debate on Mexico’s farm subsidies programs. | Agriculture | |
3 | 2 | Open Duka | balance transparency of registers, marketing | Kenya Gazette, government procurement information, ownership of listed companies and tenders approved by governments and other Bretton Woods institutions | Open Duka is a project designed by the Open Institute that will provide a freely accessible database of information on Kenyan entities. This information will provide citizens, journalists, and civic activists with a practical and easy-to-use tool to understand the ownership structure of the world they live in, demonstrating the practical applications of open information for normal citizens. It will serve as a core dataset for citizens, journalists, and civic activists who want to build 3rd party public transparency and public accountability apps or services, by allowing them to cross reference the Open Duka company shareholder data against other datasets. | By putting news and current events into context for the citizens, and making them an active participant in the governance arena, will ensure that corporate and public institutions are made accountable and transparent | Procurement | |
4 | 3 | Poderopedia | balance, fairness | Various | To reveals links among business and political leaders. | Poderopedia.org is a data journalism platform which has promoted transparency and detection of conflicts of interest, has generated a number of impact news stories; and has built alliances with other Latin American organizations, among other achievements. | Parliament, elections and elected officials, business | |
5 | 4 | El Indultómetro (The Pardon-o-meter) | balance, fairness | Data scraped from Spain's Official Gazette and presented and analysed in a database for the very first time | A site which compiles, analyzes and classifies all the information about governmental pardons granted in Spain since 1996. Users can search by the type of offense, compare the annual data and analyse, for example, the political use by different governments. | 1) For two consecutive years, sources from the Ministry of Justice conceded that the information contained in this initiative is more precise that the official records for governmental pardons. 2) The concession-rate has decreased (from an average of 500 pardons/year in the 1996-2012 period, to 204 in 2013 and 87 in 2014 [yet to be announced]). We can't prove that this is due to increased awareness by public opinion, and better data availability, but there's certainly a strong correlation. 3) An statement from the Minister of Justice claiming that his office had never pardoned anyone convicted for corruption could be refuted immediately thanks to our data, and this refutation was covered by national media. 4) It is the de facto primary source for journalists and investigators. | Judiciary | |
6 | 5 | VoteBD | citizens personal | Voter registration records | VoteBD is a web-based platform that tracks, compiles, and disseminates information about politicians and electoral candidates in Bangladesh. The website was the first in Bangladesh to make voter registration records accessible to citizens, so they could check the presence or absence of their names and any errors in the listing. | VoteBD enabled citizens to take necessary steps to ensure that their names and correct details were entered in the list, thereby making them eligible to cast their vote in the various elections. Also, a significant number of voters had changed their voting preferences on the basis of the candidate-related information provided by VoteBD. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | |
7 | 4 | e-Democracia platform | data leaks | The platform includes the following features: 1) Integration with Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail; 2) Live chats between legislators and citizens; 3) Interactive polling platform for different issues; 4) Broadcasting for public hearings; 5) “Video forums” for legislators, where even those uncomfortable with new social media approaches to communication can record short (2-7 minute) video responses using a smartphone to respond to voters directly. | The e-Democracia platform offers simple web 2.0 tools to allow citizens to interact with lawmakers on specific issues, helping to connect Brazilian citizens to national lawmakers across thousands of miles of geography. Citizens can use the portal and social media platforms to engage Congressmen, mark-up legislation, and propose and debate solutions to policy problems. The platform has facilitated cross-country dialogue among disparate groups and has thousands of active users. It has also improved legislative transparency. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | ||
8 | 5 | Por Mi Barrio | discrimination | Intendencia de Montevideo (Montevideo Municipal Government) | Por Mi Barrio is a local implementation of the FIxMyStreet platform, that focused in three key improvements; deeper integration with the local government data systems through open services, improvements in UI/UX and usability and broad grassroots engagement with citizens from different social backgrounds through workshops and events supported by the local ombudsman. | Beyond all the reports successfully received (and solved) through the platform, the project brought huge media attention and very positive feedback, fostering a debate on the shared responsibility of citizens and the government for the upkeep of the city. In the context of upcoming local elections and giving greater transparency of the inner workings of the local government, it’s helping shift perceptions and measure the value of open data, open services and transparency. | Politics, Urban planning | |
9 | 6 | Crime in Chicago | discrimination, profiling | Chicago Police Department | Crime in Chicago is a data visualization by Open City that lets you explore crime trends in Chicago's 50 wards. With this website, you can compare crime levels over the years and across city wards. You can further explore each ward’s crime profile, which shows daily crime volumes going back to 2002, crime types and subcategories, and contact info for each Ward Alderman. | Help citizens better understand the crime problem of the city (Crime is often sensationalized, so it’s important to put it in context. How prevalent are murders, really? Is your neighborhood actually experiencing a crime wave? What’s the real risk of going out at a certain time or visiting certain neighborhoods?) | Crime/Security | |
10 | 7 | Information Communications Technology for Social Accountability (ICT4SA) | health data, ownership, reuse | SMS surveys from patients in rural clinics | Reboot, in partnership with the World Bank, the Nigerian government, and Caktus group, developed an SMS-based program to collect and act on citizen feedback regarding the quality of primary health care services. | The pilot design, known as My Voice, enables patient experience to directly inform improvements to public healthcare, supplementing Nigeria’s performance-based financing initiative for national healthcare reform. | Health | |
11 | 8 | health information from student | Health Data NY (https://health.data.ny.gov/) | The New York open data portal release body mass index (BMI) of students from selected grades — K, 2, 4, 7, and 10. This includes close to 600 school districts, excluding New York City, which has a separate surveillance and reporting program, and excluding all private schools. The New York open data portal includes a how-to video to guide people through the site; visitors browsing the Student Weight Status Category Reporting (SWSCR) data are offered a link to that video to help them get the information they are seeking. | The open data platform allows people to better understand the magnitude of obesity and who is affected by it is half the battle in disease prevention and control. The platform enables users to download the data in standard formats for analysis. More than 5,000 users have used this download feature. Over 20% of the requests for SWSCR data are served automatically to developers and other applications via the application programming interface (API). School districts are using student health data to design student wellness plans, and state health officials are using these data to monitor and design program and policy interventions to curb obesity. Also, media grasped onto the data, and a lot of the stories that came out were pointing out the disparities in obesity. The media took the data and without prompting told the story. | Health | ||
12 | 9 | Represent | marketing | 1. Electoral boundaries from each government. 2. Elected officials' contact information in a common CSV schema from a growing number of participating municipal governments. 3. Elected officials' contact information scraped by our scripts (i.e. not open data). | Represent is a web service to lookup the electoral districts matching an address or postal code, and to lookup the contact information of elected officials at all levels of government in Canada. | Represent is used by Canadian labour unions and nonprofits - especially environmental nonprofits - to run email campaigns, map their members/supporters to electoral districts for organizing purposes, and to provide relevant information based on electoral district. It is also used by media and companies. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | |
13 | 10 | LobbyFacts | marketing | EU's Transparency Register (http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do) | LobbyFacts make it easier to understand and use the existing data on EU lobbying; make it possible to compare, order and analyse data; help anyone who wants to track lobbyists and their influence at the EU level (journalists, activists, decision-makers and citizens); and expose the inaccuracies and lack of information in the current register. | Create lobby transparency that reveals the lobby pressures on decision-makers and can help to ensure that they listen to a variety of views when making policy; transparency can illustrate lobbying imbalances in terms of staff numbers and spending power; and it can substantially reduce unethical or unscrupulous lobbying. Ultimately, lobby transparency should lead to better public policy-making. | Business, Lobbying | |
14 | 11 | Sinar Project People & Organizations Database | marketing? what people? | Various. Online newspapers, government websites, electoral candidates from elections commission and more | To build an open database of people and organizations with open API and based on standards (popolo) which would would not only make it easier to build transparency applications but also be able to easily merge datasets due to use of common data standard and identifiers. | Improve transparency and accountability of politicians, and reduce corruption by putting together information from various sources. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | |
15 | 12 | Georgia's e-procurement platform | personal info in documents | Government data | The main features of the e-procurement platform include: - information on individual tender documentation, documents submitted by bidders, participating bidders, their bids and all signed and amended contracts - a clarification mechanism, where bidders can submit questions/requests for clarification regarding bids and receive an answer online within a short timeframe - company white list, which consists of a list of companies that have been considered reliable in the past - company black list, containing all legal entities that have been barred from contracting with the public sector - integrated appeal mechanism, where bidders can file complaints regarding a specific tender - electronic dispute resolution, where complaints put forward by bidders are reviewed by the review board which includes a representative from Transparency International Georgia. All complaints and decisions made by the Board are available on the portal. | The e-procurement platform helped to streamline procurement processes, increasing competition, limiting the discretionary power of procurement officials, enhancing transparency and in turn reducing the opportunities for corruption. In addition, the procurement information is also instrumental for civil society organisations, citizens and the media to hold the government to account. For instance, TI Georgia gathers the information disclosed on the e-procurement portal and publishes it on another website (tendermonitor.ge) in a user friendly manner where the public can search, monitor and analyse the contracts. While the information published by the Georgian government is very useful, only data on individual cases is made available. TI Georgia has thus been aggregating this data so that profiles of procurement transactions of all government agencies and of all companies that bid for public contracts can be made available (Huter & Chanturia 2014). | Procurement, Data portal | |
16 | 13 | OpenCourts | personal infromation in cases | OpenCourts collects all available information on courts and judges that is relevant and available, and offers it to the public for free and in a user-friendly format. | Make the Slovakian system more transparent and allow the public to control courts and judges in order to hold them accountable. The ultimate goal of the website is to increase public pressure on judges and call for effective accountability against those that are continually under-performing. | Judiciary, Data portal | ||
17 | 3 | profiling | Crime data from official sources, tweets | • The crimes and acts of violence are concentrated in a single solution map, with the official data sources and data reports provided by citizens for various technological means. • This solution will allow both responsible for creating policies public and those responsible for fighting crime a valuable source of information to guide their actions and make their forecasts. • On the other hand the solution, being an open nature allow citizens to be informed about the security situation of their geographical areas of interest. | To better informed citizens about crime problems in their community, and also provide data for authorities to better combat crime | Crime/Security | ||
18 | 4 | Mini-atlases for participatory budgeting | profiling | GIS mapping and analysis, design of the mini-atlases, website with searchable information from the atlases. | Solo Kota Kita provides tools to residents in Surakarta (Solo), Indonesia for the annual participatory budgeting process – known locally as musrenbang. The maps and “mini atlases” available on this website profile information about every neighborhood in Solo. These tools can be used to understand the urban issues facing residents related to education, poverty, health, and other indicators. | To inform citizens for the decision-making process in participatory budgeting in Solo. | Budget | |
19 | 79 | Map your Stake | profiling | Citizen mappers crowdsourcing | Map Your Stake is a mapping platform for consultation, dialogue and support of public decisions with the aid of citizenry . It is thought for journalists, organizations and companies that need to discuss local issues related to social harmony , co existential problems, graphic information and urban well-being challenges (such as public security problems, environmental concerns, vehicular mobility and public works maintenance) | Map your stake is a multistakeholder participative mapping platform that spots, records and debates with open data maps those issues related to public spaces in potential conflict of interests in cities | Urban development & civic technology activism | |
20 | 80 | Quién Manda (Who Rules?) | proportionality | The team at Civio has tasked themselves with tagging photos a la Facebook with as many high profile names as they can. Each individual and corporation that gets tagged receives a profile that collects all tagged photos and displays the power connections that have been identified, along with links to social media accounts and any available biographical information. The system currently has over 100 tagged photographs, identifying over 2500 relationships. | The project analyzes the relationship between public and private to demand more transparency and provides citizens with rigorous information to help them to make their own judgement and decision. | Business | ||
21 | 1 | Declaraciones Juradas Abiertas | public employees | A tool that shows asset declarations of public officers, judges and legislators in a simple and easy way. | To be proven. | Parliament, elections and elected officials, Judiciary | ||
22 | 2 | Transparent Travel Expenses | public employees | http://datamx.io/dataset/viajes-de-trabajo-de-los-servidores-publicos-del-ifai | The Challenge Transparent Travel Expenses had the goal of visualizing data of public workers that travel inside their work at the Federal Institute for Information Access and Personal Data Protection (IFAI). The IFAI open up the data using datamx (the Civic Open Data Platform in Mexico) and mentored the teams participating in the challenge to create the desired output. Viajes Claros was the platform launched after the challenge: http://viajestransparentes.node.spaceshiplabs.com/ and it was announced in multiple media, like The Universal newspaper: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/periodismo-datos/2014/anuncian-ganador-reto-viajes-transparentes-96911.html | It made transparent how public travel budget is used | Corruption | |
23 | 3 | Pokr - Politics in Korea | social media data leakage | The website allows users to search for any official or candidate; proposed bill; political party or administrative region in South Korea, with the methodology of: 1. Aggregate various political data sources into a unified dataset. 2. Convert the data from various sources to machine readable formats, and make it universally available for further development. 3. Extract useful information from political data and transform it into interesting visualizations and easy-to-read formats. 4. Concentrate on universal access, by means of RWD (responsive web design) and i18n (internationalization). 5. Publish real-time legislative information via Facebook and Twitter. 6. Publish customized legislative information based on user favorites. (In development) | 1) Inform citizens with easy and fun political information; 2) Strengthen communication and trust between citizens and the National Assembly; and 3) Enhance political data accessibility. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | ||
24 | 4 | Bahawalpu Service Delivery Unit (BSDU) | tracking attendance of students and teachers | Public and government monitoring and reviews | Bahawalpu Service Delivery Unit (BSDU) uses ICT, real-time dashboards and public reviews to influence policy and drive performance. It is led by the District Coordination Officer (DCO) of Bahawalpur district in Punjab, Pakistan who manages more than 12 departments and has partnered with the Technology for People Initiative. BSDU focuses on health and education, and involves digitising public records and monitoring practice in order to note problem areas and ensure swift response. It features a mobile app that allows officials and citizens to monitor attendance by teachers and students at school. The information is aggregated online and made publicly accessible. The aim is to enable and motivate citizens to collect, analyze and disseminate service delivery data in order to drive performance and help effective decision making. With the support of Making All Voices Count, this initiative will now be extended into other policy areas including health and agriculture. | In Health, the initiative aims to address administrative inefficiencies such as inadequate and irregular supply of medicines, irregular disbursement of salaries, poor infrastructural management and other causes of concern. In Education, BSDU has already resulted in better teacher attendance through it's monitoring of teacher and student absence, functioning facilities and funds. | Health, education | |
25 | 5 | Brazilian Transparency Portal | unclear | Dverse Ministries and bodies of the Federal Public Administration | The Transparency Portal relied on the collaboration of diverse Ministries and bodies of the Federal Public Administration to advance the transparency of information on the application of federal public resources and to offer a tool that can stimulate citizen participation. The Portal brings, in simple language, detailed information (including expenses, revenue, agreement and officials data, etc.) about how public resources are spent. It is known as one of the most important tools of e-government in regard to public spending control. | There have been a number of concrete cases where the Transparency Portal has supported direct social control of government activities. At the beginning of 2008, Brazil’s domestic media published numerous reports about “suspect” expenditure made using federal government Payment Cards. In one case the reports led to the resignation of one federal minister. In other cases the portal’s data has given rise to unsubstantiated media reports. | Budget, Finance | |
26 | 6 | Opening data together (2nd #opendatacz challenge) | unclear | various | The aim of the challenge Opening Data Together is to contribute to the development of open data apps and also to promote open data to general public (by showing examples of digital services that can improve everyday life of citizens). In 2014 edition, 24 apps competed. Some already existed and needed just a little polishing, some were brand new, initiated by the contest. We also piloted a mentoring program, where experts from business sector helped NGOs, students and startups to improve their apps. | We managed to bring developers and data enthusiasts, public sector representatives and companies together. The data providers, mostly public officers met the users face to face (at the launch) and discussed the benefits and potential of open government data. We also managed to initiate new apps and projects and support the best, so that they can be further improved. Another goal was to promote open data to general public via examples of practical apps. The challenge received 50 media mentions, 130 tweets and 6000+ Facebook reach. | N/A | |
27 | 7 | data.gov.bc | user data | The BC open data portal contains data across a broad spectrum of subjects; access to tools to visualise and analyse the data; and a blog with posts related to the data. The contextualisation of the original document is accomplished through the possibility to “follow” the document, tracing its progression, and the source document link is provided alongside the dataset. The contact form encourages users to ask questions, to enquire about more data when needed, as well as to provide general or specific feedback. | Three main aims: 1) Citizen participation and supporting a community around open data; 2) Data self-service – transforming the way government is present on the web and providing automated access to information; and 3) Business innovation – encouraging the use and re-use of data for fostering innovation through better information and certainly in government policy. | Data portal | ||
28 | 8 | Reclamos | user data | Complaints submitted to the website | Reclamos.cl is a collaborative website that uses crowdsourced consumer complaints to create and publish consumer satisfaction rates for Chilean companies and government agencies. In practice, Reclamos (the Spanish word for “claim”) is a web platform that intelligently groups the negative opinions of users of certain services in order to achieve greater transparency in the consumer market and to exercise a kind of distributed control over commercial conditions and business practices in Chile. Reclamos.cl receives complaints from users and keeps a database of each complaint’s origin, the identity of the user, and the type of claim. Random human oversight by a team of volunteers aims to prevent the publication of false claims and content not pertaining to the objectives of the website. The system is based on free software that tags companies with regular consumer problems. | - Improve services of business, raise consumer awareness, create media pressure, point of reference for regulatory authorities While Reclamos.cl is configured as a collective system of claims, over time it has evolved into an important tool for consumer awareness in Chile. The project’s aggregate indices show trends with respect to consumers’ rights for both private companies and state enterprises, and these trends are often taken into account by companies who hope to improve their pro-consumer practices. In addition, Reclamos.cl has informal links with traditional media to support the distribution of the aggregated results. The platform has become an important point of reference for the implementation of consumer rights by government agencies that deal with these matters, such as the National Consumer Service. | Business | |
29 | 9 | EP Map | user data | Public data from government and crowdsourcing: http://www.epmap.org/ngo/page/open | EP maps is an online platform that aggregates government environmental data with crowd-sourced data monitoring to reconcile what's happening across the country. It allows users to make better life decisions based on the water, air, and land quality of the area around them. And empowers them to collectively work towards positive change. | Inform citizen to make better life decision, exert pressure on government for cleaning up the environment | Environment, Pollution | |
30 | 10 | Quien Paga Manda | user data | Crowdsourcing platform from consumers | QuienPagaManda.com is a website that publishes information related to customer service and consumer rights in Costa Rica, particularly consumers’ experiences that put in evidence legal gaps and bad commercial practices detrimental to the public interest. Among other tools, the website includes a blog, a rating system and a section to submit questions to experts. In some cases, the website connects consumers with government agencies, businesses or lawyers who can help them solve a specific problem. Some companies provide responses after seeing a complaint published or solve the issue when contacted. | The website assumes that visibility can oftentimes be more effective than legal processes to counteract such practices and it intends to help consumers learn from the mistakes and experiences experienced by others, so they can be more proactive in defending their own interests and making their rights effective. | Business | |
31 | 11 | transparentnivolby.cz | user data | Crowdsourcing from citizens | Members of the public can report election fraud and unfairness in all cities and villages. These reports will be processed by Transparency International Czech Republic’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre. | Empower citizens to monitor election and ensure the process is conducted fairly. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | |
32 | 12 | Parlement & Citoyens | user data | The platform allows citizens to contribute their analysis and ideas to parliamentarians as they develop legislation. After a parliamentarian publishes a short video and text description outlining a problem they have observed in society and the solutions they think can be codified in a law, citizens upload their ideas about the possible causes of the problem. Citizens then have the opportunity to upload their own ideas and vote for those that most effectively characterize the problem and contribute to a solution. SmartGov synthesizes the results and hosts a public debate between the MP and active participants in the online discussion. The parliamentarian proposes a bill in parliament based on the results. | To allow citizens to participate directly in the legislative process, enable collective intelligence to make more efficient and responsible laws and improve the transparency of the legislative process. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | ||
33 | 33 | API Pemilu, Election Database with Application Programming Interface to enggage with civic. Promote civic tech as well as doing voter education | user data | National Election Comission data (Legislative , Presidential and local election data), CSO's data (Solo Kota Kita), Mata Massa, Selasar, Kontras, etc) Social Media data , regulation data | Align with the OGP principals and objective, Perludem through API Pemilu (Election Programming Interface) program has been creating an open data initiative in the field of election and democracy. This program aimed to address the data and information problem in Indonesia, a country where the organization of the election is the most complex in the world. API Pemilu provides developers who interested to help voters in Indonesia to be better informed and choose wisely in the election. Indonesia si currently the biggest one-day election in the world with more thatn 200.000 candidates for legislative election. Data and inforamation that are mostly hard to be obtained in machine readable format now available in an API in API Pemilu web/ github. Making it easy and accessible for developers to develop an informative and fun mobile/web apps. Currently API Pemilu also agregating citizen report data for connecting people and legislative members throug DPR KITA application. | Through this program Perludem created the first detailed and publicly accessible archive of elections data and made it available through an application programming interface (API) and became one of the catalyst and engine that boosts the use of technology to create social impact in the election and democracy field. Over the course of one year, Perludem has not only developed an up to date data sets on all 7,552 candidates for the House of Representatives, as well as the 21,878 candidates for legislative councils in the provinces (DPRD 1) but also allowing public participation through a series of civic tech events, and the creation of a lot of applications on voter education. Currently, there are more than 40 voter-education applications that are readily available in Google Playstore of Apple store. All apps can be seen and downloanded in http://pemiluapps.org. From this program Perludem also created a close relationship with election commission through the open data training programs and developed a community consist of open data expert from some public and private sector. The latest development of this program is the making of application that connect legislative member with public at large called DPR Kita. This initiative is not only enhance the communication but also promot transparency on parliament activities and decisions, comprehensive, timely freely available to the public and meets basic open data standards (e.g. raw data, machine readability). | Election | |
34 | 34 | Transparent Munich | user data | Legislative data from the Munich Council Information System | Code for Germany’s Transparent Munich project enables its citizens to quickly and easily locate information about their local government. The portal hosts a number of customizable, user-friendly features: A calendar compatible RSS feed to inform citizens when the next city council or committee meetings are taking place, an e-mail alert system to notify subscribers when new documents matching their search criteria become available, information on elected councilmembers, committee members, hearing agendas, meeting minutes, among other information all easy retrievable online. Furthermore, the portal also provides a glossary on pertinent legislative concepts and a simple breakdown (with video) on the local decision-making process in the City of Munich. | Transparent Munich strengthens local democratic participation by informing citizens on legislative concepts on the local law-making process, thus helping individuals navigate complex bureaucratic processes. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | |
35 | 35 | Vouliwatch | user data | Vouliwatch is a digital platform that engages Greek citizens with legislative politics and grants them with the opportunity to communicate, evaluate and hold elected representatives in the Greek and the European Parliament (MPs & MEPs) accountable. | An important achievement was the successful organisation of an open political discussion/debate based on our “Issue of the month” application. The topic was about Democracy & the EU and we had invited MEP candidates from 6 different political parties who had the chance to present their position as well as being challenged and questioned by the audience. This was our first attempt at transferring an online discussion to a live setting with the presence and active participation of politicians. We are proud to say that it was a great success and all involved parties, both speakers and audience were really pleased with the final outcome. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | ||
36 | 36 | Congreso Transparente | user data | Data extracted from the National Congress portal by our organization | Congreso Transparente is a Guatemalan organization that aims to create a communication bridge between the members of Congress and the citizens of Guatemala through the release of information and the promotion of debate in subjects such as representation, legislative action and the legislative process. | Our objective has been to support the debate and discussion of the actions of the members of Congress through open, transparent and reliable data through the the principles of open government (participation, transparency and collaboration). In that context, we are working on promoting the importance of citizen participation and supporting the citizens’ task of monitoring the Congress by providing them with the relevant information they need. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | |
37 | 37 | CGNet Swara | user data | Crowdsourcing from citizens | CGNet Swara (Chhattisgarh Net Voice) gives voice to the tribal population of Chattisgarh, India, by providing them with a voice-based portal where they can report local issues using a landline or mobile phone. The reported content is reviewed by moderators and appropriate submissions are published for playback on the audio channel. Subscribers are alerted via SMS that new content is ready. To listen to the content, listeners send a missed call to the system, which then calls back and leads the caller through a simple interactive voice response system, allowing them to listen to the latest news and stories. The audio content can also be found on the CGNet Swara website for web browsers. | Many of the estimated 80 million members of India's tribal communities lack access to any mainstream media outlets. This often poses serious barriers to their socio-economic development, as their grievances about government neglect and economic exploitation remain unvoiced. In addition, certain factions (such as the Maoist insurgency) can exploit their frustration and isolation to violent ends. CGNet Swara provided people with a platform to solve the abovementioned problems. | Journalism | |
38 | 38 | Curul 501 (The 501st Seat) | user data | The Curul 501 platform increases citizen awareness of the activities of the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) of Mexico. The website strives to make the work of the legislature more accessible and understandable, with primers on the legislative process and composition of the Chamber, parties, and electoral districts. It also reports on pending and passed legislation and representatives’ proposals, while advocating for more parliamentary openness. Citizens can submit questions and concerns directly to representatives, while offering the chance to “vote” on bills and compare the citizens’ vote with the official record. | - To publish and explain the work of the legislature in a simple, fast, and free manner. - To promote citizen interest and engagement in the activities of the legislature. - To establish citizen monitoring as a constant presence in the work of the legislature. - To offer a space to increase citizens’ communication with representatives. - To promote the use of technology for participation and advocacy. | Parliament, elections and elected officials | ||
39 | 39 | Pera Natin 'to! (It’s Our Money!) | user data | Official sources, Crowdsourcing from citizens | The project publishes reports on issues surrounding transparency, accountability and corruption, and encourages Filipino citizens to use text, photos and videos to report times when they are asked for bribes. The project engages in investigative reporting based on these crowdsourced submissions and launches campaigns to promote specific legal changes or transparency practices in the Philippines, such as making government officials’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities and Net Worth available online or preventing politicians from posting photos of themselves on billboards near new public infrastructure and public services. | The goal is to “put under the public spotlight important issues such as control and management of the nation’s public wealth — and keep them there" and combat corruption. | Corruption, Budget | |
40 | 40 | Digital Budget & Accounting System (dBrain) | user data | Government data | Features of the portal: 1. Integrated web-based system providing the public with real time analysis on government’s fiscal activities including budget formulation, execution, account settlement and performance management. 2. Participatory budgeting where the central government, local governments, public institutions and the public collaboratively decide on the allocation of resources and participate in nationwide fiscal decision making. 3. Citizen participation is enabled throughout the budgeting process through internet surveys, an online bulletin board, online bidding, a cyber forum, d-budget participation corner and public hearings to name but a few. Furthermore, there is a Budget Waste Report Center which offers a hotline and online system for citizens to prevent central government agencies and local government offices from misbehaving. Citizens are encouraged to report alleged misappropriations of government funds and are incentivised to do so with a ‘budget saving incentive bonus’, at most $30,000 which can be awarded to a citizen reporter if allegations are found to be true. | According to a survey conducted with public officials as well as external users of the portal, the great majority considered that the establishment of the dBrain has helped to increase transparency and efficiency in public spending. Respondents also mentioned an increased level of accuracy of the disclosed data since the creation of the portal (Hwang 2012). The portal has also proven to be useful to government officials who can now review budget execution in an easier and more reliable manner (Open Knowledge Foundation 2013). Public officials can now monitor and manage their own programmes easily as the portal enables searches by programme, business unit and by project. In addition, budget authorities have a tool that allows them to make more efficient and strategic budget decisions as detailed information on financial statements of previous projects are available online (Open Knowledge Foundation 2013). Similarly, it has also become easier for the Korean legislature to review budget documents and information on budget execution from different government agencies and departments (Open Knowledge Foundation 2013). | Budget, Procurement, Data portal | |
41 | 41 | Citadel on the Move | user data, posibly social media leakage | local, national and international data portals | Citadel on the Move was conceived a little over three years ago to make Open Data a reality for every city in Europe. To that end, it designed simple tools that cities could use to turn their data into mobile applications that would be of interest and relevance to their citizens and the society at large. Since its inception, the project has worked with over 120 authorities not just in Europe but also beyond its borders, helping them to become more Open Data-friendly and sharing the vision of smart city as a data city. | From an eight year old to an adult person, Citadel has helped citizens with no or very little technical background build simple, easy-to-use applications from scratch. The project has also helped authorities that were in the early stages of opening their information to the public understand the benefits of Open Data, as well as how to release this information in a way that maximises its usefulness to citizens and society at large. | N/A | |
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