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.<p>They got geeks to do it right. And now shit is starting to hit the fan.
people are already scavenging over data and finding dubious and interesting(funny?) transaction info<p>to give just two samples (on funny side) of how the data looks:<p>police seems to be mostly buying meat<p><a href="http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/17140/" rel="nofollow">http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/17140/</a><p>they smoke huge amounts of tobacco in some retirenment homes<p><a href="http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/31627528/" rel="nofollow">http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/31627528/</a><p>Of course the real point is in exposing the corruption!
What a great idea.<p>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?
Twitter stream of what people are finding in the data: <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/supervizor" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/supervizor</a>
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.
We also have such a tool in Portugal for quite some time: <a href="http://www.base.gov.pt/_layouts/ccp/ajustedirecto/list.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.base.gov.pt/_layouts/ccp/ajustedirecto/list.aspx</a><p>A more user-friendly frontend also available at <a href="http://transparencia-pt.org/" rel="nofollow">http://transparencia-pt.org/</a>
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 <i>really</i> need it.