Freedom of information and open contracting in Nigeria: Open Data Day 2020 report
Open Data Day - April 6, 2020 in Nigeria, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, Open Data Day 2020
Open Data Day - April 6, 2020 in Nigeria, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, Open Data Day 2020
Open Data Day - April 11, 2019 in Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2019
Each assistant was able to take a copy of the Open Data Guide on Public Procurement
We support the organization of the event by collaborating with the snack for the attendees
Open Data Day - April 3, 2019 in colombia, gender, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2019
Open Data Day - April 1, 2019 in bolivia, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2019, Open Science
Open Data Day - March 28, 2019 in Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2019, Open Mapping, serbia, USA
New Orleans City Councilman, District A, Joe Giarrusso talks about the importance of the city budget at #ODD2019 in New Orleans
Residents and media representatives from the city of Pančevo attending the “Open for open data” event
Open Data Day - March 22, 2019 in Follow the Money, Nigeria, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2019
Uadamen and Ayomide before the event
Open data should be a tool used by citizens to drive societal change. As a citizen, how many times have you asked questions? How many changes have you initiated?
Participant asking question during the event
Adriana Homolova - October 24, 2018 in Open Contracting, Open Spending
Choices are finite
Based on your choices, Elvis will draw a network.
This is a network graph of money flows between governments and companies. It wiggles too!
Filter and search the list of all the dots on the network
Sort them according to their value
We keep the details limited as well. Look for detailed documentation on the government websites!
The same company can show up with different spelling. This is because in the EU, there is no standard on how to fill in the name of the company. We have therefore implemented a simple tool to merge multiple dots on the network.
Before the computers get smart enough, you have to merge companies that are the same manually. Sorry!
There is also no standard to how much of the information is filled in. It so happens, that the government does not want to share how much a tender costs for example. After a long discussion on how do we show this sort of missing data in Elvis, we have settled on … fruit.
IT spending in The Netherlands costs strawberries
Despite we have data from the whole of the EU, Elvis only offers data from the countries of the former Eastern block. One of the reasons for this is the data quality: tenders in the eastern part of Europe are more transparent.
Value of the winning bid much more often present in tenders from the countries of the former Eastern block
Another important reason are available resources. The data (7 million tenders) is too big for our database at this moment. We are however looking for means to develop it further.
Rodrigo Valdez - May 14, 2018 in cameroon, Follow the Money, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2018, Paraguay
Transparency International-Cameroon (TI-C) on Friday March 16 hosted an information and awareness raising workshop to celebrate the 8th edition of the International Open Data Day. Under the theme “Why should Cameroon use the Open Data Standards for Procurement to Combat Corruption in its Public Procurement System?”, the workshop organized with the financial support of the Open Data Community gathered representatives from the government, media, local councils, civil society organizations and technical and financial partners.
The workshop was a combination of presentations and interactive sessions. The participants had their capacities strenghtened through the following presentations:
In the context of Cameroon, the key questions was, how can civil society organizations promote OCDS? While brainstorming on the question, participants realized that there are challenges to be addressed to facilitate the adoption of OCDS by government agencies. Among them we have:
The event was broadcasted on a national TV station during the Evening news the same day, also, one of the journalist present during the workshop had two articles published in its newspaper (Le quotidian l’Economie).
We should however underline here that this workshop is in line with the missions of the recently established “Open Contracting Working Group – Cameroon” composed mainly of three Cameroonian civil society organizations namely: Transparency International Cameroon, AfroLeadership and CRADDEC.
Gilbert Sendugwa - May 1, 2018 in Follow the Money, Open Contracting, Open Data Day, open data day 2018, uganda
Figure 1: Whether participants knew of the existence of Access to Information Act