This document discusses the importance of making government budgets transparent and accessible to citizens. It notes that budgets can often be boring and too technical, using many jargons. It defines transparency as the government sharing information with citizens, while open means the data can be freely used and shared. It then describes Mwazna, a project that aims to make government budgets available and understandable to all citizens.

2. Why is it important for
citizens to have access to
data?

4. What is the problem with
explaining budgets in
general?

5. • boring
• too technical (too many jargons)

6. • boring
• too technical (too many jargons)

7. How can we make
budgets more
transparent and
open?

8. transparency vs openness

9. Transparency?
• transparency is government's obligation to
share information with citizens.
• Lobbying and advocacy
• Legislation
• Public pressure

10. Open?
• it must be possible for the government data to
be freely copied, shared, combined with other
material, or republished as part of websites
which allow users to explore, analyze, visually
represent, or comment on the material, as well
as transform it into other formats.

11. Mwazna
• attempt to make government budget available to
everyone

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