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7 March 2020

Open Data Day 2020

Organisation: Open Knowledge Foundation. Location: Global

Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the tenth time, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society.

For Open Data Day 2020, we support growing the community by supporting the Open Knowledge Foundation to provide mini-grants on events that track public money flows.

Meet the organizations who have been awarded Open Data Day 2020 mini-grants in the tracking public money flows:

  • FollowTheMoney Kaduna will use contracting data including responses to FOI letters and on the spot assessment of projects and infrastructures across communities in Kaduna state, Nigeria
  • The Alliance of Independent Journalists in Bandung, Indonesia will use open contracting data to encourage collaboration among civil society groups to access and monitor public budgets
  • Afroleadership in Cameroon will organise a training on the analysis of budget data by civil society using open data
  • The event run by Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST Malawi) will call for greater transparency and accountability in public budget management the through Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard
  • Somalia’s Bareedo Platform will encourage uptake of local public contracting data
  • Dataphyte in Nigeria will support change agents to track and use budget, procurement and revenue data to demand accountability
  • The Collective of Journalists for Peace and Freedom of Expression from Mexico will design a workshop to explain all the contracts of the City Council of Mazatlan, Sinaloa.
  • Diálogos will visualise the volume of public procurement of the main ministries of the Government of Guatemala 
  • The 1991 Open Data Incubator will facilitate a workshop and discussions to share the experiences of many parties working with or producing open data in Ukraine
  • LEAD University in Costa Rica will organise an event for data science students to meet public officials behind the National Public Procurement Portal
  • Russia’s Infoculture will hold a conference on open data and information transparency
  • The Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organisation showcase the Uganda Budget Information website and how to use it to report, track and monitor public funds
  • The Centre for Information, Peace and Security in Africa will work with journalists in Tanzania to promote openness in public contract in terms of transparency and integrity on public expenditures and value for public money
  • Bolivia’s CONSTRUIR Foundation will organise a data camp to advocate for more and better public contracting data
  • Ojoconmipisto in Guatemala will teach students and journalists how to investigate and tell stories from public budget and contracting data
  • Sluggish Hackers will use their event to investigate how to track public money flows from the National Assembly or local assemblies in South Korea.

See all events on the Open Data Day website.

Region: International

Audience: Civic Tech