Digital Advertising Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at U...
Behind the lines
1. Open analysis of closed(?) data
An app to assist public scrutiny of Council spending
Team Exposé
2. B&NES spent approximately £400M in FY 2013/2014
•Too many items for easy oversight
•Too little time for dedicated inspection
•Too little time for introspection
•Ample Public interest in where the money is going...
3. Front End : AngularJS
Bootstrap
Back End : Go
MongoDB
Python
Datasets B&NES £500 Expenditure Spreadsheet
B&NES Members Allowance Payments
Company Check.co.uk
OpenCharities.org
Postcode.io
App link http://expose.112percent.com:8080
4. Comparison between B&NES and other Councils
Spending more money locally
Buying Group possibilities
Greater Transparency of Council spending, access to a wider
scrutiny pool
Enhanced Supplier Management
Better quality datasets from B&NES e.g. Company Number