OpenSpending is one of Open Knowledge International’s current projects. It is a free and open platform for citizens looking to track and analyse public fiscal information globally.
Over the years, we have learned about numerous examples of fiscal data uses from the OpenSpending community. Also, we learned that obtaining fiscal data can be the most difficult part in making data available to the public. We reached out to the community and collected a few examples on “unlocking” fiscal data.

Emilio Pina: “El crédito ‘Escrito por’ es el crédito más importante que hay”
El productor ejecutivo de 'Los Protegidos', 'El tiempo entre costuras', 'El incidente', 'Apaches', 'Victor Ros' y 'El robo del oro español', visita el Máster en Guion Audiovisual

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Online platforms offer a variety of opportunities for volunteers to engage in the process of knowledge generation. How are Crowd Science projects brought into being and how do they work? An insight.... MORE

By Smitha Krishna Prasad Medical and health records are increasingly digitised, and ease of access is considered one of the key benefits of this trend. However, patient privacy and security of such records are important concerns that need to be addressed both under the existing legal framework, and in terms of development of new laws. […]

The National Crime Records Bureau released their annual “Crime in India” report for the year 2015 earlier this year. This post analyses the trends in cybercrime traced through the report.   The National Crime Records Bureau (“NCRB”) released their annual “Crime in India” report (“NCRB Report, or “Report”) for the year 2015 earlier this year. […]

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Author(s): Kristen E. EichensehrPublication Date: December 6, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingOn Friday, the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity published its final report, making 16 recommendations and identifying 53 action items to improve cybersecurity in the United States.

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Kathy Brown, President & CEO, provided the following statement at today’s Opening Ceremony at the 11th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Guadalajara, Mexico.

Working paper by Jonathan Fox: “…argues that the growing field of transparency, participation and accountability (TPA) needs a conceptual reboot, to address the limited traction gained so far on the path to accountability. To inform more strategic approaches and to identify the drivers of more sustainable institutional change, fresh analytical work is needed.

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Udbhav Tiwari was a panelist for an Industry Consultation Panel on Data Retention organised by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) at the Le Meridian, New Delhi on 23 November 2016.
The agenda for the Panel was ‘Data Retention – Provisions under 67C’ and Udbhav's co-panellists were:

Vidushi Marda participated in a panel at the "10th NLSIR Symposium on Regulating E-Commerce in India" at NSLIU on November 27, 2016 in Bengaluru.
The topic for my session was "Liability Regimes - Ensuring Compliance". I spoke about the various kinds of E-Commerce businesses to consider (from aggregators to platforms to the sharing economy) and focussed on issues surrounding intermediary liability and data protection. The panelists were:

El 22 de noviembre de 1966 y a cargo de un equipo multidisciplinario liderado por el Dr. Fernando Morgado, experto en inmunología, se realizó la primera intervención quirúrgica de esta categoría en nuestro país, que correspondió a un trasplante de riñón.A las 7:55 hrs. comenzó en el Hospital José Joaquín Aguirre el primer trasplante realizado en nuestro país, con un paciente de 42 años de edad portador de una glomerulonefritis crónica, insuficiencia renal y síndrome urémico.

La ceremonia, desarrollada en el marco de la visita a Chile del Presidente chino Xi Jinping, fue encabezada por las máximas autoridades de ambas instituciones, el profesor Wang Weiguang y el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, y representantes del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.3.300 investigadores, 180 centros de estudio, 38 institutos de investigación y 5 editoriales son algunas de las cifras que dan cuenta de la relevancia de la Academia China de Ciencias Sociales (CASS, por su sigla en inglés), institución con la que la Universidad de Chile firmó este ma

Con diferentes actividades que involucraron al conjunto de la comunidad, la Universidad de Chile celebró sus 174 años de existencia como la principal institución de educación pública del país.

Lançamento foi realizado no último dia 25 de novembroA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio) e a Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) lançaram, no dia 25 de novembro, a Cartilha do Investimento Coletivo: orientações a investidores e gestores, seguido de um debate público sobre equity crowdfunding no Brasil.

Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard, and Benjamin Barratt in Big Data & Society: “Citizen sensing, or the use of low-cost and accessible digital technologies to monitor environments, has contributed to new types of environmental data and data practices.

Max Read in NewYork Magazine: “My favorite story about the internet is the one about the anonymous Japanese guy who liberated Czechoslovakia. In 1989, as open dissent was spreading across the country, dissidents were attempting to coordinate efforts outside the watchful eye of Czechoslovak state security.

Iyad Rahwan in Philosophy & Technology: “Cybernetics, or self-governance of animal and machine, requires the ability to sense the world and to act on it in an appropriate manner. Likewise, self-governance of a human society requires groups of people to collectively sense and act on their environment.

Carl Miller at The National: “First, write out the numbers one to 100 in 10 rows. Cross out the one. Then circle the two, and cross out all of the multiples of two. Circle the three, and do likewise. Follow those instructions, and you’ve just completed the first three steps of an algorithm, and an incredibly ancient one.

NESTA: “Newcastle City Council has been using data to change the way it delivers long-term social work to vulnerable children and families.
Social workers have data analysts working alongside them. This is helping them to identify common factors among types of cases, understand the root causes of social problems and create more effective (and earlier) interventions.
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