Partnering with the Community on Open Data Day

Partnering with the Community on Open Data Day

By Joel Riphagen, Senior Advisor Saturday, March 7 was the 10th annual International Open Data Day. This bottom-up initiative is a global celebration of open data, run by local organizations and supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Over 300 local events were...
A Big Transparency Gain for California

A Big Transparency Gain for California

By Joel Riphagen, Senior Advisor for FI$Cal Last month we reached an important milestone when Open FI$Cal, the state’s financial transparency portal, began displaying data from virtually every department transacting in the system. Getting all departments’ expenditure...
More Departments’ Data Entering Transparency Website

More Departments’ Data Entering Transparency Website

Open FI$Cal, the transparency website that publishes state government expenditures, will soon add data from eight more departments that have transacted in the FI$Cal system for at least a year. The eight are slated to release their data during the first week of March....
More Departments’ Data Entering Transparency Website

Open FI$Cal Gaining Dozens of Departments

During the first week of February, 31 more departments will add expenditures to Open FI$Cal, California’s financial transparency website powered with data from the FI$Cal system. That brings the total to 66 state government entities offering public visibility to how...