by | Aug 4, 2020 | Newsletter
Open FI$Cal, California’s financial transparency website, has come a long way since going public in September 2018. The site now displays expenditure information for all 150 departments transacting in the FI$Cal system, updated every month, and it continues to evolve....
by | Apr 2, 2020 | Newsletter
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...
by | Nov 4, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter
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...
by | Feb 28, 2019 | Newsletter
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....
by | Feb 1, 2019 | Newsletter
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...