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VisibleGovernment.ca Expense Visualizer Pilot - Montreal on Rails
This document discusses using citizen activism and open source tools like Scrubyt and Ruby on Rails to increase government transparency. It notes current issues with accessing government data and proposes solutions like publishing structured data feeds, enabling data visualization, and facilitating collaborative organization between citizens. Citizens could monitor government data streams, detect issues, and provide feedback to help resolve problems. The document advocates giving grants to online transparency tools and outlines a specific example of the MAPLight project, which makes the relationship between political donations and voting visible. It also describes ideas for standardizing government data scraping and creating a learning template to allow non-coders to train scrapers.
