Where are the cuts in your country?

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As you may have seen, last week the OKF launched a new mini project called WhereAreTheCuts.org. Created by by Jordan Hatch and Richard Pope, the site enables UK citizens to find and report spending cuts near them. It had a pretty enthusiastic reception, and was picked up by the Telegraph and several local news sources.

We are now looking for people who might be interested in creating a similar service to map the cuts in other countries. If you might be interested, please either leave a comment below, or come and say hello on the the wdmmg-discuss list!

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Jonathan Gray

Dr. Jonathan Gray is author of Public Data Cultures and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.

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Jacobo Elosua says:

October 27, 2010 at 15:52

Great effort, Jonathan. I personally would be very interested in trying something similar with Spanish data. Let me know how can we try to move it forward.

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Roy Peled says:

October 26, 2010 at 19:35

ISrael has just passed the 2011-12 biannual budget in first hearing in the parliament. Interested in exploring the possibility of applying this to our budget.

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