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Open Siope Tools for users

Study visit Ministry of finance of Turkey

Rome, 26 May 2016

Directorate General for Markets and Payment Systems Treasury Services Directorate

G. Ivaldi

AGENDA

1. Open Siope

2. Developments

3. Siope Users

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AGENDA

1. Open Siope

2. Developments

3. Siope Users

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• 16 June 2014: Siope data become “freely accessible” by law

Political goal:

Accountability and transparency

“Transparency of government expenditure is necessary. Free access to Siope data allows public

entities and, most of all, citizens to monitor every day public payments and receipts. We must go

further along this road”. (Del Rio, under-secretary PdCM, 2014)

2015 – Also thanks to Open-Siope Italy gained 8 positions in the Global Open Data

Index

Open Siope

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AGENDA

1. Open Siope

2. Developments

4. Siope Users

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• From operational tool for Public entities (12.000 users) to instrument for

information and transparency for any users

• 2015-2016: more reports and tools available on www.Siope.it tailored to

new Siope users

Developments

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From 32.000 (average) accesses per year (until 2014)

Access to Siope website - Statistics

1 million in 2015

To

AGENDA

1. Open Siope

2. Developments

3. Users

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Users

• Until June 2014

1. Public entities

2. Treasurer banks

• …… and after opening to the general public

1. Public entities

2. Treasurer banks

3. Citizens

4. Analysts/Researchers/Journalists

5. Re-users of Siope data

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Public entities can

• Download reports (receipts, payments, cash availability) to be attached to the

financial statements

• Check information sent to Siope by their treasurer bank

• Access their own financial situation through indicators produced by Siope

• Compare their own performance with a peer group - benchmarking

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Public entities Indicators produced by Siope

800000047 – Municipality of Rome

Expenditure indicators

Current expenditure / Total expenditure

Current primary expenditure/ Total expenditure

Capital expenditure / Total expenditure

Personnel cost/ Current expenditure

Current transfers / Current expenditure

Intermediate consumption/ Current expenditure

Revenue indicators

Financial autonomy

Taxation power

Transfer dependence

Other indicators

Taxation power

Per capita indicators

Expenditures

Per capita current expenditure

Per capita primary current expenditure

Per capita personnel expenditure

Per capita intermediate consumption

Per capita capital expenditure

Revenues

Per capita current revenues

Per capita capital revenues

Per capita tax revenues

Per capita non –tax revenues

Per capita current transfers and contributions

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Treasurer banks can

• Check:

• acquisition of the data sent to Siope

• daily information details

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Citizens/Analysts/Reaserchers/Journalists can

• Monitor entities’ financial choices

• Compare the financial situation of the entity with other peer entities

• Download data, analize the trend of one or more variables

• Download the whole database

Data journalism

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Definition

Data journalism is a journalism specialty reflecting the increased role that numerical data have in the production and distribution of information in the digital era.

Data journalism

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• For each year they can download data (receipts and payments) for all

entities

• Bulk files are not available through API (Application Programming

Interface), but there are data with fixed url to allow easier download to

applications

• Files are in CSV (Comma-Separated Values) format, compliant with

RFC-4180 specifications

• Data reuse is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

International license.

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Re-users

Example of Re-users: Government’s website

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Q&A