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Insights in Global Public Spending
Michalis Vafopoulos, National Tech. Univ. Athens, publicspending.net(joint effort with M. Meimaris, J. M. Alvarez Rodriguez, G. Xidias, G. Vafeiadis, M. Klonaras & P.
Kranidiotis)
The era of Open budgets, spending, registries, contracting…
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Open but Effective?
oWho really gets the public money?
oFor what? From whom?oCan we compare them?o Is public spending effective?o<your question goes here>
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Useful economic open data
1. The full cycle of public money
2. Uniform Company names3. Compatible Payment
categories
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1. The full cycle of public money
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Prices
Follow Public Money all the Way Vocabulary (fpm)
oA compact and minimal way to model the flows of public money
oFrom budget to spending including business information and prices
oWork in progress (ask inside)http://www.publicspending.net/vocab-fpm
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Useful economic open data
1. The full cycle of public money
2. Uniform Company names3. Compatible Payment
categories
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2. Not uniform Company names
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The problem: different
names for the same company
“Oracle” in the Australian public spending
Reconciling Company names: the CORFU technique (work in
progress)
Rodríguez, Jose María Álvarez, Ordoñez de Pablos, Patricia, Vafopoulos, Michalis N. and Labra, José Emilio
3. Compatible Payment categories
The problem:
Spending decisions are using different (or not any!) classification schemes (e.g. CPV, UNSSC, NAICS)
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Compatible Payment categories
Transforming classification schemes or literal descriptions to CPV, expanding:
The MOLDEAS project Methods On Linked Data for E-procurement Applying
Semantics
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Compatible Payment categories
Work in progress
o New data (more countries and cities)o New links (e.g. registries, business
info)o New uses (e.g. open public economics)
you are invited:
to follow together public money all the way through
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Utopia?
o Still inconsistent & not enough Open data?
Yes, but to persuade people to open the data we need real cases
- If we fail may go back to the closed world
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Let us discuss
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References
o Vafopoulos, Michalis N., Rodríguez, Jose María Álvarez, Meimaris, Marios, Xidias, Ioannis, Klonaras, Michailis and Vafeiadis, Giorgos, Insights in Global Public Spending (May 12, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2264958 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2264958
o Vafopoulos, Michalis N., The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies (July 26, 2012). Michalis Vafopoulos (2012) "The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies", Foundations and Trends® in Web Science: Vol. 3: No 1-2, pp 1-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1800000015. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2117855
o ALVAREZ, J. and LABRA, J. 2012. Towards a pan-european e-procurement platform to aggregate, publish and search public procurement notices powered by Linked Open Data: the MOLDEAS approach. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 22, 3 (2012), 365–383.
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