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Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

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Anti-corruption office in Slovenia publishes a web app that lists _all_ transactions between governmental entities and private sector from 2002 till now. With a great user interface.<p>They got geeks to do it right. And now shit is starting to hit the fan.

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people are already scavenging over data and finding dubious and interesting(funny?) transaction info

to give just two samples (on funny side) of how the data looks:

police seems to be mostly buying meat

http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/17140/

they smoke huge amounts of tobacco in some retirenment homes

http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/31627528/

Of course the real point is in exposing the corruption!

Union, country's largest beer brewery gets most of their (public sourced) income from Ministry of Defense ;)

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What a great idea.

Apart from things that have a desperate need for privacy (and there really shouldn't be that many of those) - shouldn't every single financial transaction of every single publicly funded organisation be open to scrutiny?

I agree in principle, but it has the downside of raising the transaction costs significantly. When you hire someone to do a job, you need to be able rely on their best judgment. If you're going to expect being held accountable for buying a pencil from your brothers stationary shop, this encourages rampant unproductive CMA.

(Not that this isn't already a problem in government organisations).

There should be a web platform where people can check how transparent, efficient and independent publicly funded organizations are. This would be helpful in many ways.

Twitter stream of what people are finding in the data: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/supervizor

While most gov's are locking down on people it's nice to see one (ours) that does it's job in this one, but major instance. Do something to serve it's people better.

What would really be good if deals were published before any contract is signed. That would enable fair competition.

We also have such a tool in Portugal for quite some time: http://www.base.gov.pt/_layouts/ccp/ajustedirecto/list.aspx

A more user-friendly frontend also available at http://transparencia-pt.org/

People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people...

Great job!

This is great! If anyone has a link to a story done using this info please share. I really hope that Slovenians find a way to export this tool to other ex-YU republics. We really need it.

Well, we already have one in Serbia: http://portal.ujn.gov.rs/

Hm, I checked the website but only managed to find a list of ads for public procurement. Slovenian app shows the flow of money from each particular public office to each private company. I might be wrong though.

Go to "search and review" and then to "public procurements".

On that page you can either search the database or click on today's data on the right side of the screen.

That should keep Slovenia off the Anonymous radar for a while :)

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