OKFN Sweden is proud to invite you to a seminar about OpenSpending! We are delighted to announce support from the global OKFN Central Team’s Tryggvi Björgvinsson.
Tryggvi, hailing from Iceland, is the Technical Lead for OpenSpending
at the OKFN Center and will present on the basis of the project and
elaborate on related topics. The seminar will be moderated by Adrian
Källgren, the Project Manager of OpenSpending at OKFN Sweden.
Public
budgets, expenditure, accounting, and auditing are often not the most
interesting or riveting topics. Nevertheless, this does not alter the
fact that our government spends money in our name. Money is spent on
various "things" and yet, we need to know what these "things" are.
Citizens should understand where their money goes, if they hope to ever
hold governments accountable and hold any hope in fostering positive
changes in their local communities, complex countries, and the
interwoven globalized world.
OpenSpending is a community project
from OKFN that aims to help citizens and communities understand where
their money is being spent and thereby give them a chance of increased
influence on its spending. How this is done is through building and
using open source tools and datasets to gather and analyse the financial
transactions conducted by governments around the world which is opened
for public scrutinization.
The aforementioned Tryggvi
Björgvinsson, serving as the Technical Lead of OKFN’s OpenSpending and
Adrian Källgren, Project Manager of OpenSpending at OKFN Sweden will
present the origins of the initiative, how it works, and most
importantly: how you can help.
OKFN Sweden and INDEK-KTH welcome all interested people to this event.
RSVP: Please note that we have limited spots. Please sign up here.
Date & Time: Friday, March 14, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (PDT).
Location: Stockholm, Sweden | Albert Danielsson Seminarierum 643 Sing Sing Building – <i>Industriell ekonomi och organisation KTH</i>
Contact: Serdar Temiz
E-mail: serdar[at]okfn.se
Twitter:@okfnse / @serdar_temiz

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