[examples/openspending] - openspending v0.2 (#907)

* [examples/openspending] - openspending v0.2

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examples/openspending/content/resources/mappingcommunity/case-studies-other/index.md

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+lead: true
+title: 'Case Studies: From Local to Global'
+authors:
+- Neil Ashton
+---
+![WDMMG, Chiba City edition](http://i.imgur.com/qBuiQiK.png)
+
+Throughout the research phase for this report, we have been continually surprised by the creativity with which citizens and communities have approached financial transparency. We set out to discover how civil society organisations were using government spending data, but we also discovered interesting cases of citizen and community uptake of spending data—evidence that the goal of driving citizen engagement with public spending by opening data is succeeding.
+
+In this section, we highlight two cases of community-driven projects around spending data: the [OpenSpending](./openspending/) project, a community-run global database of spending data that has been enthusiastically used as a repository for *local* spending data, and an app to open up the [University of Granada's budget](./opening-university/) built by a department within the university. These two projects provide an important reminder that grassroots local demand constitutes a significant source of pressure for increased spending transparency.
+
+* [OpenSpending](./openspending/)
+* [Budget transparency for an open university](./opening-university/)
+
+**Next**: [OpenSpending](./openspending/)
+
+**Up**: [Mapping the Open Spending Data Community](../)

examples/openspending/content/resources/mappingcommunity/case-studies-other/opening-university/index.md

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+---
+lead: true
+title: Budget transparency for an open university
+authors:
+- Neil Ashton
+---
+The demand for financial data doesn't just come from CSOs, and it doesn't just target national or even regional governments. The University of Granada's budget data app provides an example of a demand for budget data originating and being met within the hyper-local space of a single university. Empowering local actors to demand and make use of data is the next frontier in spending transparency.
+
+## University of Granada budget app
+
+The idea to build an app to make the University of Granada's budget data more accessible emerged during International Open Data Day, a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's governments. The Open Knowledge Foundation's Spanish chapter did a call for participants, and the Free Software Office at the University of Granada accepted the challenge.
+
+The project began by scraping the budget documents published by the University of Granada in PDF format and converting their data to a machine-readable format. The goal of this step was to make it easier for citizens, journalists and even employees at the university to work with the data, using tools ranging from spreadsheet programs to visualization suites. The project then went on to build an app to allow users to download the income and expenditure budgets in CSV format and to provide a set of comprehensive visualizations.
+
+The set of tools used for the project included:
+
+* [Cometdocs](http://www.cometdocs.com) (online PDF-to-Excel converter)
+* [OpenRefine](http://openrefine.org) (data cleaning)
+* [DataHub](http://datahub.io) (data hosting)
+* [OpenSpending](http://openspending.org) API & [D3.js](http://d3js.org) (visualization)
+
+<iframe width='100%' height='400' src='http://openspending.org/upo-income-budget/embed?widget=treemap&state=%7B%22drilldown%22%3A%22articulo%22%2C%22year%22%3A%222012%22%2C%22cuts%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22drilldowns%22%3A%5B%22articulo%22%5D%7D&width=700&height=400' frameborder='0'></iframe>
+
+## The importance of university budget transparency
+
+Spanish Public Universities are almost solely funded by the various Public Administration Offices. In the University of Grenada's revenues, for example, the amount of income coming from public payments (including college tuition) only covers 11% of the total. As a result of the Spanish economic crisis, some college tuition rates rose, having a deep impact on the
+pockets of those on the verge of being unable to pay for their studies.
+
+By releasing the University's budget data, the project:
+
+* Highlighted the reality of the resources available at the university
+* Helped identify potential best practices in savings that could be used by other universities
+* Helped citizens to make smart proposals on why and where the public should invest in higher education
+
+Spanish public universities are equipped with system called SIIU (Integrated University Information System), and they are required to report budget data using this system. Thus, in reality, most of the technical challenges around developing budgets in electronic and harmonized formats has already been completed. The question is therefore why the Ministry of Education does not make this information available to the public.
+
+*Summary based on blog post by J. Félix Ontañón at OpenKratio.*
+
+**Next**: [Conclusions](../../conclusions/)
+
+**Up**: [Case Studies: From Local to Global](../)

examples/openspending/content/resources/mappingcommunity/case-studies-other/openspending/index.md

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+---
+lead: true
+title: OpenSpending
+authors:
+- Neil Ashton
+---
+The availability of elegant and intuitive visualisations can drive government data release at a local level. OffenerHaushalt in Germany, for example, was launched with a small note on the page saying, “If you are a local government and you are interested in producing your own visualisation site such as this, please write to us.” To date, the OffenerHaushalt team have received 70-90 requests for similar sites in Germany at different levels of government, often from government officials themselves.
+
+Being able to cater to these different levels of government and different bodies within government was one of the prime reasons for building OpenSpending: a solution was needed that could produce something like <a href="http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org">Where Does My Money Go?</a> in less than half a day, without which scaling down to the local level simply would not be feasible.
+
+## Local uses of OpenSpending
+
+Since its launch, OpenSpending has had a continuous flow of requests from stakeholders at local levels. By May 2013, more than 80 cities had been added to OpenSpending from citizens, local political parties, and local administration officials. A substantial number of connections have also been made to local budgeting initiatives using technology to enhance participation.
+
+It is our impression that local spending has a strong potential for a few reasons:
+
+* Local spending has a clear and direct impact on the average citizen's daily life, as it is at the local level that many services are delivered. This fact seems to invite a wide group of citizens and communities to engage with the process.
+* Active citizens may know where to access data in their local community more easily than national data. They might even know who to speak to in the local council if the data is not available.
+
+## Japan
+
+The OpenSpending community in Japan has a largely city-based focus. Yokohama initiated a <a href="http://spending.jp/">local spending site</a>  in 2012 using the Daily Bread and budget visualisations. Since then, eleven additional cities have had their budgets visualised. At Open Data Day February 2013, the group expanded the initiative with another site for the <a href="http://chiba.spending.jp/">city of Chiba</a>, which received a visit as well as positive feedback from the mayor of Chiba.
+
+The community is characterised by strong representation of both governance experts from academia and as programmers with the technical skills to implement complex budget sites.
+
+Since February 2013, the community has grown across Japan and spurred the development of budget visualisations for twelve additional cities.  The community is now looking to explore more detailed budget data as well as transactional spending data. A plan for including transactional data from two prefectural governments is underway.
+
+## Other uses of OpenSpending
+
+We have seen a number of CSOs and citizens make use of OpenSpending to serve specific visualisation needs outside the realm of pure budget and spending transparency.
+
+* <a href="http://www.fundacjafenomen.pl/">Fundacja Normalne Miasto Fenomen</a>, Poland, used OpenSpending to visualise data on transportation spending for the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fopenspending.org%2Flodz_2013_transport_budget&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGQheo8Wg1kQ7ztn27o2k7TqcsV8Q">city of  Łódź</a> in order to advance their environmental agenda.
+
+* The Social liberal party (D66) of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, used budget data from the city of Rotterdam to help inform elected officials and decide on local priorities within the party. The purpose was, in the first place, to help the party decide on budget priorities and secondly to advocate to the city itself to adopt the practise of visualising the budget to its citizens in a meaningful way. A similar example was seen with the budget of Uruguay for 2012 from the Uruguayan Office of Planning and Budget.
+
+* The search interface of OpenSpending was used by Privacy International <a href="http://community.openspending.org/2012/02/how-spending-stories-fact-checks-big-brother-the-wiretappers-ball/">to do research into which companies are selling surveillance equipment had contracts with governments around the world</a>.
+
+* OpenSpending was used to visualise the <a href="http://community.openspending.org/2013/04/visualising-urban-development-data-at-un-habitat/">UN-Habitat data on Urban Development</a>.
+
+* In collaboration with Publish What You Fund, OpenSpending was used to provide the <a href="http://publishwhatyoufund.org/uganda/#/~/aid-and-domestic-spending-in-uganda-br----usd-">first consolidated view of the budget of Uganda</a>, including income from aid flows, which form a substantial part of the revenue flows for Uganda. Even the government of Uganda had previously not had access to this information.
+
+**Next**: [Budget transparency for an open university](../opening-university/)
+
+**Up**: [Case Studies: From Local to Global](../)