Open Spending

OpenSpending is a centralized platform on the topic of public financial information, including an global database of budgets and spending data, a community of contributors and users exposing cases, and a set of open resources and tools providing technical, fiscal, and political understanding necessary to work with financial data. (https://okfn.org/projects/)

It's our money!

By understanding how governments spend money in our name can we have a say in how that money will affect our own lives. The journey starts here. (https://openspending.org/)

About OpenSpending

OpenSpending exists to map the money worldwide – that is, to track and analyse public financial information globally. It is meant to be a resource for individuals and groups who wish to discuss and investigate public financial information, including journalists, academics, campaigners, and more. Concretely, OpenSpending is:

- A central, high-quality, open platform for public financial information, including budgets, spending, balance sheets, procurement etc.

- A community of users and contributors to this database.

- A set of open resources providing technical, fiscal, and political understanding necessary to work with financial information.

We are currently building the next version of OpenSpending. Find out more about how to get involved. (http://community.openspending.org/about/)

URL: https://openspending.org/

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160819193123/https://openspending.org/