[ Google Spreadsheet Row Number ] 5580
[ Facilitator ] Hero Peeps (@peeps)
[ Organization ] Mindblowing Project
Description
Worldwide, $9.5 trillion dollars are spent in government contracts on things such as roads, medicine, and paperclips. But some of these trillions, 13% of global GDP, also flow into cognac, over-priced products and services, and fake medicines.
The session will focus on the benefits and opportunities for government, citizens and business coming from opening up this data on government contracts through the open source Open Contracting Data Standard. The objective of the session is to develop clear use cases for this contracts data. Ideas for use cases span creating platforms and apps for the web that allow for timely access on business opportunities, ensure civic participation by tracking and monitoring existing developments, or dashboards that track specific elements in government contracting such as efficiency, timeliness, or fairness. It will present existing data sources (EU Tenders, state of public contracting data globally) and some early examples.
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[ Google Spreadsheet Row Number ] 5580 [ Facilitator ] Hero Peeps (@peeps) [ Organization ] Mindblowing Project
Description
Worldwide, $9.5 trillion dollars are spent in government contracts on things such as roads, medicine, and paperclips. But some of these trillions, 13% of global GDP, also flow into cognac, over-priced products and services, and fake medicines.
The session will focus on the benefits and opportunities for government, citizens and business coming from opening up this data on government contracts through the open source Open Contracting Data Standard. The objective of the session is to develop clear use cases for this contracts data. Ideas for use cases span creating platforms and apps for the web that allow for timely access on business opportunities, ensure civic participation by tracking and monitoring existing developments, or dashboards that track specific elements in government contracting such as efficiency, timeliness, or fairness. It will present existing data sources (EU Tenders, state of public contracting data globally) and some early examples.