1. indicators of transparency and
accountability
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2. indicates
the state or
level of
something. Transparency and accountability need each other and can be mutually
reinforcing.Together they enable citizens to have a say about issues that
matter to them and a chance to influence decision-making and hold
those making decisions to account.
- transparency initiative
characteristic of governments,
companies, organisations and
individuals that are open in the
clear disclosure of information,
rules, plans, processes and actions.
ensuring that officials in public,
private and voluntary sector
organisations are answerable for
their actions and that there is
redress when duties and
commitments are not met.
indicators of transparency and accountability
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4. Features
• Regionalization
• Time Series
• Benchmarking
• Manage source of indicators by variables.
• Interoperability by open data formats.
• Follow indicators, increasing participation.
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5. User A
Indicator
Location
Time and Period
Variable A
Variable B
+
Institute (Network of networks)
Network Organization (Cities or ONGs)
“Network” Indicator
Variable A Variable B
“User” Indicator
Variable A Variable C
Network Organization (Cities or ONGs)
Variable A Variable D
User A
“Network” Indicator
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6. Institute
• Group of networks, rules to define how
users can fill indicators.
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7. Network
• Domain.
• Define cities (Location).
• Define network indicators.
• Define variables.
• Manage users.
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8. User
• Fill variables
• Define regions or sub-regions to the city.
• Create indicators.
• Create good practices.
• Customize public site about city.
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9. Regions
• Name
• Belongs to a city.
• May have sub-regions.
• User can draw region or import KML.
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10. Indicator
• Formula (Compose by variables)
• Rules about how to read indicator.
• Title, Description
• Type of indicators
• Normal - Fill values of variables.
• Multiple input - Pre-defined groups and user just
fill values.
• Dynamic multiple input - User can define
groups and fill values.
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11. Variable
• Name
• Type (Integer, Numeric (float) and String)
• Measurement Unit (Ex. Km, m2, ...)
• Period (decade, yearly, quarterly, montly,
daily, ...)
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12. Customize site
• Manage menu options.
• Create pages.
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13. Data
• Support DataPackage JSON (for CKAN
and others)
• API REST HTTP, Support JSON, CSV and
XML.
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14. View - compare
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15. View - compare
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16. View - Time Series
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17. Indicator - Multiple Input
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18. Indicator by regionalization
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19. Compare indicators by regions
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20. License
• opensource
• License - GNU GPLv3.
• http://github.com/AwareTI/Iota
• opendata
• Default license - CC-by-sa
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21. Brasil - “Sustainable Cities Programme”
268 cities, +60% population of Brasil.
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22. Red Ciudades
55 Non-governmental organizations.
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23. Rede Social de Cidades
18 Non-governmental organizations
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24. Next steps
• More views for more use cases.
• Translate for more languages.
• Integrate with others apps.
• Prepare easy install for cloud providers.
• Support RDF
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25. • http://www.aware.com.br/AwareTI
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