IBP Open Budget Index report 2008/2009 ( http://www.sodnet.org ) was
launched in Kenya February 12 2009 by Social Development Network an NGO
which Houses the INFONET program whom developed the
http://www.opengovernance.info.The program was co-founded by Three
techies whom have worked in Development work before across the globe and
have experience on Technology shaping development processes.The Budget
tracking Tool is being scaled up to the 5 East African Countries through
partnerships with Non Governmental organizations and government reform
program.SODNET -INFONETtherefore through experience and citizens
engagement has had a track record in Technology involvement..
(www.socialwatch.org)
The work that Mysociety.org is doing is therefore very central in
shaping up democracies and governance efforts in Africa especially with
the Fix My Street model which is informing Specific Service delivery
Efforts and advocacy initiatives in my country and Region.We call it
Info- activism.This is all possible through partnerships..Because every
organization or institution is specialized in an area..when you identify
all these synergies and find a suitable way to connect the strengths
together ..which in most cases - Technological tools do bests..well the
rest you will have to see.. :-)
Tool Thus Karin Christiansen wrote:
So IBP does/funds alot of the work in this area:
http://www.internationalbudget.org/ (which is I think what you are
refering to Tiago yes?)
But I actually think possibly one of the accessible and best budget I
know of it the Uganda one which is a government one -
http://www.finance.go.ug/budgets_background.php and the most exciting
document is -
Output Budget Report 2008/2009
<http://www.finance.go.ug/docs/FY2008_09%20Output%20Budget_3_12.pdf>
which maps spending to outputs, in more detail and more clearly than
and northern budget I know.
However, it isn't particularly techie. but if anyone is interested in
doing something with the data, just let me know!
Karin
2009/9/15 Tiago Peixoto <[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:21:17 +0100
> To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Kenyan Budget Tracking
>
> Dear Karin,
>
> 2009/9/7 Karin Christiansen <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
>
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