1 / 24

Greek Public Spending Analysis: Unlocking Citizen Empowerment through Open Data

This project explores Greek public spending through an innovative approach using open data to empower citizens. The first LOD App in Greece offers daily updates and visualizations, allowing users to track where their tax money goes. By leveraging tools like “Diavgeia” and TAXIS, the app provides rich information on spending decisions, payers, and payees. Comparative statistics with EU counterparts reveal insights and promote transparency. The project also aims to interlink businesses on a global scale, initiate a virtuous cycle of creation, and foster collaboration. Through the use of ontology, visualizations, SPARQL endpoint, and interconnections, this initiative encourages public awareness and involvement.

dillan
Download Presentation

Greek Public Spending Analysis: Unlocking Citizen Empowerment through Open Data

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The case of Publicspending.gr: Greek public spending in a nutshell M. Vafopoulos, M. Meimaris, A. Papantoniou, I. Anagnostopoulos, G. Alexiou, I. Avraam, I. Xidias, G. Vafeiadis and V. Loumos National Technical University of Athens USING OPEN DATA: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism, Brussels, 19,20/6/12

  2. Apps, Apps, Apps…..

  3. WHERE MY MONEY GOES in Greece publicspending.gr • the first LOD App in Greece • daily updates • open spending linked data, endpoint & visualizations

  4. WHERE MY MONEY GOES in Greece publicspending.gr • Input 1.“Diavgeia” (all public spending decisions online daily ) ΕΧ-ΑΝΤΕ, API, average data quality, rich information • Payer, payee (amount, VAT number, name) • CPA 2008: Classification of products by Activity • CPV 2008: Common Procurement Vocabulary • Original decision text in pdf 2. TAXIS (official Tax Information System) VAT number validation and profile request

  5. Just numbers… Spending decisions: 1.521.556 Spending amount: ~ 27 billion euros RDF Triples: 42.252.565 Payers: 31.115 Payees: 374.729 Active CPV categories: 6.323/ 9.454 Active CPA categories: 1.642/(~10.000)

  6. Website live

  7. Classification of products by ActivityPAYERS

  8. Classification of products by ActivityPAYEES

  9. Query for top CPV Code 45000000-7 “Construction Works” and its substituent cpvcodes

  10. WHERE MY MONEY GOESlocal spending in EU level demo • Litchfield district • NUTS LAU1 region • population ≈100k • Find places with similar characteristics in Greece (Dbpedia)

  11. Dbpedia query http://dbpedia.org/sparql select * where { ?mundbpprop:popMunicipality ?a . FILTER(?a>90000 && ?a <120000)}

  12. Comparative statistics

  13. public spending SPARQL Query about Kalithea in publicspending.gr and in the Litchfield endpoint • not compatible product/service classifications (ontology alignment needed) • Litchfield decisions: >500 £ • Kalithea decisions: no limitations

  14. public spending: results

  15. public spending: comparisons • Litchfield repair expenses = 0.44% • Kalithearepair expenses = 0.54% • Can you think of others?

  16. WHERE MY MONEY GOESinterlinking business in global scale • building a Greek business repository (ongoing) • examining global interconnections (e.g. Open Corporates, CPA->NAICS)

  17. some last thoughts • first App on the Greek LOD • try to initiate the virtuous cycle of creation • co-operations & interconnections are in the top of our agenda • get people to be involved

  18. ?

  19. appendix

  20. Checklist • Ontology – enriching with core vocub. • Basic visualizations • SPARQL endpoint - thedatahub • Interconnections • Product classifications • Open Corporates • Greek LOD (e-proc, geodata, dbpedia) • EU and US (CPV -> NAICS) • Demos & services • Public awareness - working with the media , hackathons, courses, theses

  21. Counting spending decisions

  22. publicspending.gr architecture

  23. Ontology • build on the approach of the UK payment ontology and Core Bus. Voc. • CPV, CPA • WESO PSC ontology, OC, data cube, Organization ontology, …

  24. publicspending.gr ontology

More Related