Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#1

Post by andraz » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 9:49 AM UTC

Anti-corruption office in Slovenia publishes a web app that lists _all_ transactions between governmental entities and private sector from 2002 till now. With a great user interface.

They got geeks to do it right. And now shit is starting to hit the fan.

Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia
supervizor.kpk-rs.si

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#2

Post by time_child » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:27 AM UTC

People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people...

Great job!

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#3

Post by middayc » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:41 AM UTC

people are already scavenging over data and finding dubious and interesting(funny?) transaction info

to give just two samples (on funny side) of how the data looks:

police seems to be mostly buying meat

http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/17140/

they smoke huge amounts of tobacco in some retirenment homes

http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/31627528/

Of course the real point is in exposing the corruption!

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#4

Post by Vrvy » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:42 AM UTC

Awesome

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#5

Post by arethuza » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:43 AM UTC

What a great idea.

Apart from things that have a desperate need for privacy (and there really shouldn't be that many of those) - shouldn't every single financial transaction of every single publicly funded organisation be open to scrutiny?

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#6

Post by Mavrik » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:48 AM UTC

middayc wrote: post #3

people are already scavenging over data and finding dubious and interesting(funny?) transaction info to give just two samples (on funny side) of how the data looks: police seems to be mostly buying meat http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/17140/ they smoke huge amounts of tobacco in some retirenment homes http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/31627528/ Of course the real point is in exposing the corruption!

Union, country's largest beer brewery gets most of their (public sourced) income from Ministry of Defense ;)

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Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#7

Post by middayc » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:55 AM UTC

While most gov's are locking down on people it's nice to see one (ours) that does it's job in this one, but major instance. Do something to serve it's people better.

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#8

Post by andraz » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC

Twitter stream of what people are finding in the data: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/supervizor

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#9

Post by Zomb1 » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 12:30 PM UTC

This is great! If anyone has a link to a story done using this info please share. I really hope that Slovenians find a way to export this tool to other ex-YU republics. We really need it.

Re: Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

#10

Post by babuskov » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 12:45 PM UTC

Zomb1 wrote: post #9

This is great! If anyone has a link to a story done using this info please share. I really hope that Slovenians find a way to export this tool to other ex-YU republics. We really need it.

Well, we already have one in Serbia: http://portal.ujn.gov.rs/