This seminar discussed open budgets and fiscal transparency in Tunisia. It covered topics like open government, open data, and open budgets. The agenda included discussions of transparency and accountability, open data standards, examples of open budget projects, and connecting budget transparency to performance. The goal was to have an open discussion on commitments in Tunisia's action plan to improve budget reporting and make budget and spending data more open and accessible to citizens.

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Financial Transparency
Open Government & Open Budgets

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About me
‣Anna Alberts | @anna_alberts | anna.alberts@okfn.de
‣Project Lead OpenBudgets.eu
‣Background in International Relations and International
Development Studies.
‣Since 2015 with Open Knowledge Germany
‣Focus: Fiscal Transparency & Open Data

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Open Knowledge Foundation
Germany
‣A not-for-profit organization, promoting openness in all
its forms
‣“Empowering people through open knowledge”
‣We build tools and communities to create, use and
share open knowledge, content and data that everyone
can use, share and build on.

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Open Knowledge: A global network of
communities
OpenMENA: http://openmena.net/en/

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OpenBudgets.eu
‣ OpenBudgets.eu is a European project for research
and innovation on fiscal transparency – funded by the
EC
‣Publication and integration of financial data
‣Easier to publish, visualize, analyze, and compare data
‣Promote opening public budget and spending data
‣Governments
‣Journalists, Civil Society, and Politicians

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Agenda
‣Transparency & Accountability
‣Open Government
‣Open data
‣Open Budgets & Spending Data
‣Inspiration
‣Link to Performance Based Budgeting
‣Call to Action

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Open Government – OECD definition
The transparency of government actions, the
accessibility of government services and information and
the responsiveness of government to new ideas,
demands and needs.’Three characteristics appear to be
most relevant when describing a government as open,
namely:
‣Transparency – that its actions, and the individuals
responsible for those actions, will be exposed to public
scrutiny and challenge;
‣Accessibility – that its services and information on its
activities will be readily accessible to citizens; and
‣Responsiveness – that it will be responsive to new
ideas, demands and needs.

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Open Government Partnership
‣“The Open Government
Partnership is an initiative
launched in 2011 to provide an
international platform for
domestic reformers committed
to making their governments
more open, accountable, and
responsive to citizens.”
‣Tunesia joined January 2014
‣Legislation & Egov & Open Data

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Clauses on Open Budget & Spending
‣Commitment n°13 - publication of budget reports According to IBP-OECD
international standards, 8 reports related to budget must be published, but
in Tunisia, only 6 reports are published.
‣Commitment n°14 - Development of the open budget system Development
of the open budget system in order to facilitate access to documents
related to public finance and execution of the budget.
‣Commitment n°15 – Exploring data existing in the budget management
platform (ADEB) Data and information related to public structures budget
and existing in the application dedicated to budget management (ADEB)
will be used and published in an easy and readable format.
‣Commitment n°16 - Publication of reports related to attribution and
execution of public procurement and audit results
‣Commitment n°17: Publication of recommendations raised in audit reports
in the area of public procurement Implementation of a system allowing
clustering, follow up and publication of recommendations.

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Government and Budget Spending
‣Information about Government Budget and Spending is
key for Transparency and Accountability
‣If Budget and Spending information published in digital
format on the web it enables civil society and private
sector to understand how tax money is spend.
‣If published as Open Data it can be analyzed,
compared, visualized and put into context with other
data.

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Open Data
‣What is Open Data
– digital
– license
– content
– government data, cultural data, scientific data, data from
companies (fe. Transport)
‣5 Stars
– On the web, open license
– Machine Readable
– Non-propietary format
– RDF standard
– Linked RDF

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Budget Public – Not Digital

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Budget Digital - PDF
See:

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Budget PDF - read by machine

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Budget XSL - read by civil servant
See:

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Budget XML / Jason - read by
machine
See:

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Budget data, digital, open useful

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Budget visualization - by Gov of
Germany

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Budget and Spending - Wish list
‣ Annual Budgets
‣ Spending Data
– not merely aggregates
– spending data starts to live in the detail: “how much does my
school cost”
‣ Audit Reports
‣ Budget calendars + procedures
‣ Tenders, Contracts, Procedures
‣ Citizen Budget

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Where does my money go

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The Daily Bread

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Obudget from Hasadna

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Obudget - drill down to budget
transfers

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Opencheckbook – Connecticut

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Texas Transparency

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Subsidietrekker – Subsidies tracker

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Redflags.hu – public procurement
tracking

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Connecting Fiscal Transparency &
Performance Based Budget

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Call to Action

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Questions
anna.alberts@okfn.de
@anna_alberts