OpenSpending OpenSpending exists to “map the money worldwide” – that is, to track and analyse public financial information globally. Concretely, OpenSpending is: A central, high-quality, open database of public financial information, including budgets, spending, balance sheets, procurement etc A community of users and contributors to this database A set of open resources providing technical, fiscal, and political understanding necessary to work with financial information. The OpenSpending database is a resource for the many individuals and groups who wish to discuss and investigate public financial information, including journalists, academics, campaigners, and more. Feed

If you are a member of the OpenSpending community—whether you contribute datasets, work on building or testing code, or develop stories and visualizations using OpenSpending data—this site belongs to you.

The OpenSpending Community Site is a place to showcase the OpenSpending community’s work and to share its resources. It includes:

The Community Site is built using WordPress, which makes it easy for community members to contribute. Entries in the blog are simply WordPress blog posts, and the other parts of the site are WordPress Pages.

To get involved see the Get Involved page.

OpenSpending Examples in the Wild

Open Spending Data Albania

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