Open Knowledge International and GIFT Collaboration
Open Knowledge International has benefitted greatly from the support of GIFT in developing the Open Fiscal Data Package and the OpenSpending platform. This collaboration has enhanced visibility for OFDP and OpenSpending globally, facilitating engagement with government representatives and promoting transparency in budget and spending data.
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1. Open Knowledge International and GIFT Support from GIFT has tremendously helped Open Knowledge International s work in developing both the [Open] Fiscal Data Package specification the OpenSpending platform GIFT has brought Open Knowledge International in contact with many government representatives globally GIFT has helped greatly in providing more visibility for OFDP and OpenSpending to governments around the world Sander van der Waal - sander.vanderwaal@okfn.org
2. Reaching out to the public with technology From Where does my money go in 2009, to an OpenSpending Packager and OpenSpending Viewer to be used by anyone in 2018, and integrated into sites such as OffenerHaushalt in Germany and Transparencia Presupuestaria in Mexico
3. Motivating citizens on budgets Our approach has been to make numbers more visual by developing and building on visualisations - see openspending.org Another valuable approach is telling stories with budget data. OKI has worked a lot with data journalists, but another initiative worth sharing was Spending Stories Sander van der Waal - sander.vanderwaal@okfn.org
4. Open Knowledge Internationals gift to GIFT We pledge to not just work with national governments to get more budget and spending data published on OpenSpending.org, or with the Open Fiscal Data Package But also That we work more with Civil Society Organisations who have a need for that data. Doing more to bring supply and demand together. Sander van der Waal - sander.vanderwaal@okfn.org