Are you at the Bangalore meetup, Prasad? anirudh
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:19 PM, gps <gadgil...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > Here is the project proposal post made to Foundation-I mail-list for > starting a wiki to monitor the government spending. I guess here in India, > we must be more that convinced that a sustained, widely accessible and > comprehensive continuous tracking of Gov spending is key. If our ex-Prime > Minister is to be believed, out of every 1 rupee of public money spent, only > 15 paise reach the intended destination. > > This effort is supposed to bring clarity about the allocations and actual > delivery to bring forth the requisite citizen's pressure on the govt for > greater accountability. This is a massive undertaking, no single person / > org can do it. As initial check suggests, there are many sources of > information, we need to act as a central publicly accessable and easy to use > / modify repository for existing info and then start filling the information > gaps. > > Project Proposal has been made @ > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki > Initial site can be set up on one of the wiki-farms, like Wikia. Requesting > your feedback. > I will also try to attend today's Wikipedia:Meetup in Bangalore, hopefully > to meet with some of you there. > - > regards, > Prasad > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com> > Date: 16 December 2010 22:01 > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the > government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > This would surely be interesting to a lot of people. But Wikimedia itself is > not a political body, so projects like this may not be seen as appropriate > for here. > > A lot of projects with wide interest are hosted on wiki farms though. > > There are many wiki farms and other bodies and many groups use wikis for the > kind of proposal you have. Perhaps set up a wiki on a wiki > farm<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_farm> > ? > > FT2 > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: gps <gadgil...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM >> Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - >> GovSpendWatch Wiki >> To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> Hello, >> >> One of the biggest problems of democratic givernance is that Allocated >> funds >> for various causes, initiatives and projects disappear due to corruption, >> mismanagement or just lie unutilised due to poor or non-existant public >> oversight. >> >> Another aspect is that the public Audit watchdogs in may countries is >> unable >> to function independently, and their reports disappear when inconvenient. >> >> Many a times the issues come to limelight when irreparable damage has been >> done, due to media expose or due to increasingly used Right-to-Information >> provisions, however media moves on to next issue, and there is no >> permanant >> vigil over the public expenditure. The same issue is rampant in Asia, >> Africa >> and even in developed countries. >> >> We need a Global countrywise repository for monitoring, tracking, >> identifying possible issues in public expenditure. The domain is important >> enough for Wikimedia, and the support / backing crucial enough for the >> platform to succeed. >> Pl. consider this request to start a wiki to monitor the government >> spending, possibly named as GovSpendWatch-Wiki. >> Project Proposal has been made @ >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki >> >> Pl. forward the proposal to foundation-l mail-list for review. >> >> regards, >> prasad gadgil - प्रसाद गाडगीळ >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
