Lançado o ONE - De Olho Nas Emendas:
Eyeing the seams: Tool of transparency and popular participation
In recent years, the world has deepened the debate about public transparency, combating corruption, law on access to information and social participation, basically issues that the Office of Surveillance and Control (IFC) has been debating the eight years of its existence. And how to integrate all this, involving the citizen? How to turn thousands of data into information that any citizen can simply browse and play its role helping to oversee the funds for public policies in your city? That was the goal of the Institute in partnership with volunteers Transparency Hacker in 2011. The idea was simple: identify a bottleneck which for residents of Brasilia (Brazil), was unclear where truly would need more transparency and mainly active participation of civil society. With this analysis we concluded that we should create a tool that would be easily accessible to citizens identify what city received its appeal through the parliamentary amendments, which were the areas covered and mainly identify what were the deputies. This is because we realize that the Budget Amendments could be being used by the District Representatives to divert Public Resources. An amendment to hold a festive event, for example, could declare the expenditure of $ 300,000.00 and actually pay "under the table", only 10% ($ 30,000.00) while Mr pockets for itself 90% remaining. Each Member is entitled to 13.5 million in proposed amendment and the Chamber of DF has 24 MPs. So, potentially, can be diverted over $ 290 million through this type of scheme a zero cut in real spending and add a zero accountability. The first mission was to identify an existing platform that fit with the project, then choose the Ushahidi which is in reference geolocation. Then we had to ask more than a thousand amendments in an open format, which did not happen. We encounter many difficulties when creating the ONE to Brasilia, now resolved these difficulties (The amendments were published in the Official Gazette as photographs and documents would be laborious typing the thousands of amendments. OCR We had to convert PDFs to plain text and code a scraper data with Scraperwiki (1)), the next step now is to expand the federal level, showing the population of the country all amendments.) Our next step is to create a large 2013 map data with public health in Brazil. This data is being compiled and worked to better meet the Brazilian citizen.
In recent years, the world has deepened the debate about public transparency, combating corruption, law on access to information and social participation, basically issues that the Office of Surveillance and Control (IFC) has been debating the eight years of its existence. And how to integrate all this, involving the citizen? How to turn thousands of data into information that any citizen can simply browse and play its role helping to oversee the funds for public policies in your city? That was the goal of the Institute in partnership with volunteers Transparency Hacker in 2011. The idea was simple: identify a bottleneck which for residents of Brasilia (Brazil), was unclear where truly would need more transparency and mainly active participation of civil society. With this analysis we concluded that we should create a tool that would be easily accessible to citizens identify what city received its appeal through the parliamentary amendments, which were the areas covered and mainly identify what were the deputies. This is because we realize that the Budget Amendments could be being used by the District Representatives to divert Public Resources. An amendment to hold a festive event, for example, could declare the expenditure of $ 300,000.00 and actually pay "under the table", only 10% ($ 30,000.00) while Mr pockets for itself 90% remaining. Each Member is entitled to 13.5 million in proposed amendment and the Chamber of DF has 24 MPs. So, potentially, can be diverted over $ 290 million through this type of scheme a zero cut in real spending and add a zero accountability. The first mission was to identify an existing platform that fit with the project, then choose the Ushahidi which is in reference geolocation. Then we had to ask more than a thousand amendments in an open format, which did not happen. We encounter many difficulties when creating the ONE to Brasilia, now resolved these difficulties (The amendments were published in the Official Gazette as photographs and documents would be laborious typing the thousands of amendments. OCR We had to convert PDFs to plain text and code a scraper data with Scraperwiki (1)), the next step now is to expand the federal level, showing the population of the country all amendments.) Our next step is to create a large 2013 map data with public health in Brazil. This data is being compiled and worked to better meet the Brazilian citizen.
