Mexico became the first
country to formally adopt the Open Fiscal
Data Package, an
international open data
standard promoted by the Global
Initiative for Fiscal
Transparency (GIFT), in
collaboration with Open
Knowledge International and
the World Bank,
with the support of Omidyar
Network.
The announcement was made
during an event hosted by the
Ministry of Finance of Mexico
to present the Executive’s
Budget Proposal for 2017. The
Ministry also revealed that it
published the 2008-2016
Federal Budget on its website.
The data was prepared using
the OpenSpending Viewer, a
tool which allows the users to
upload and analyze data, and
create visualizations.
For the past few months,
OpenSpending, in collaboration
with the Global
Initiative for Fiscal
Transparency and WB-BOOST
initiative team, has
been working with the Ministry
of Finance of Mexico to pilot
the OpenSpending tools and the
Open Fiscal Data Package
(OFDP). The OFDP powers the
new version of the
OpenSpending tools used to
publish Mexico’s Federal
Budget data. The OFDP helps
make data releases more
comparable and useful.
The data package,
embedded on Ministry of
Finance’s web page, enables
users to analyze the 2008-2016
budget, to create
visualizations on all or
selected spending sectors and
share their personalized
visualizations. All data is
available for download in open
format, while the API allows
users to create their own apps
based on this data.
Explore
the visualizations!
In the
next few months, GIFT in
collaboration with Open
Knowledge International team
will pilot the OFDP
specification in a number of
other countries. The
specification and the
OpenSpending tools are free
and available to use to any
interested stakeholder.
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