Project: Where Does My Money Go?
Client: Open Knowledge Foundation
Date: August – December 2010
Brief
To manage the communications and launch of Where Does My Money Go? A service that aims to promote transparency and citizen engagement through the analysis and visualisation of information about UK public spending.
Response
The project sought to communicate and engage with government, civil servants, journalists and citizens and create an on going movement for transparency around government spending – both at a national, local and international level.
Press mentions included:
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Poynter
Public Finance
Guardian
Financial Times
The Globe & Mail
Such is the interest and success of this open data, open networked project that it has grown into OpenSpending, which aims to track every government financial transaction across the world.
