hello,
Here is the project proposal post made to Foundation-I mail-list for starting a wiki to monitor the government spending. I guess here in India, we must be more that convinced that a sustained, widely accessible and comprehensive continuous tracking of Gov spending is key. If our ex-Prime Minister is to be believed, out of every 1 rupee of public money spent, only 15 paise reach the intended destination.
This effort is supposed to bring clarity about the allocations and actual delivery to bring forth the requisite citizen's pressure on the govt for greater accountability. This is a massive undertaking, no single person / org can do it. As initial check suggests, there are many sources of information, we need to act as a central publicly accessable and easy to use / modify repository for existing info and then start filling the information gaps.
Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki Initial site can be set up on one of the wiki-farms, like Wikia. Requesting your feedback. I will also try to attend today's Wikipedia:Meetup in Bangalore, hopefully to meet with some of you there.
- regards, Prasad
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com Date: 16 December 2010 22:01 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
This would surely be interesting to a lot of people. But Wikimedia itself is not a political body, so projects like this may not be seen as appropriate for here.
A lot of projects with wide interest are hosted on wiki farms though.
There are many wiki farms and other bodies and many groups use wikis for the kind of proposal you have. Perhaps set up a wiki on a wiki farmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_farm ?
FT2 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral315@gmail.comwrote:
Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gps gadgil.ps@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello,
One of the biggest problems of democratic givernance is that Allocated funds for various causes, initiatives and projects disappear due to corruption, mismanagement or just lie unutilised due to poor or non-existant public oversight.
Another aspect is that the public Audit watchdogs in may countries is unable to function independently, and their reports disappear when inconvenient.
Many a times the issues come to limelight when irreparable damage has been done, due to media expose or due to increasingly used Right-to-Information provisions, however media moves on to next issue, and there is no
permanant
vigil over the public expenditure. The same issue is rampant in Asia, Africa and even in developed countries.
We need a Global countrywise repository for monitoring, tracking, identifying possible issues in public expenditure. The domain is important enough for Wikimedia, and the support / backing crucial enough for the platform to succeed. Pl. consider this request to start a wiki to monitor the government spending, possibly named as GovSpendWatch-Wiki. Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki
Pl. forward the proposal to foundation-l mail-list for review.
regards, prasad gadgil - प्रसाद गाडगीळ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Are you at the Bangalore meetup, Prasad?
anirudh
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:19 PM, gps gadgil.ps@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
Here is the project proposal post made to Foundation-I mail-list for starting a wiki to monitor the government spending. I guess here in India, we must be more that convinced that a sustained, widely accessible and comprehensive continuous tracking of Gov spending is key. If our ex-Prime Minister is to be believed, out of every 1 rupee of public money spent, only 15 paise reach the intended destination.
This effort is supposed to bring clarity about the allocations and actual delivery to bring forth the requisite citizen's pressure on the govt for greater accountability. This is a massive undertaking, no single person / org can do it. As initial check suggests, there are many sources of information, we need to act as a central publicly accessable and easy to use / modify repository for existing info and then start filling the information gaps.
Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki Initial site can be set up on one of the wiki-farms, like Wikia. Requesting your feedback. I will also try to attend today's Wikipedia:Meetup in Bangalore, hopefully to meet with some of you there.
regards, Prasad
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com Date: 16 December 2010 22:01 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
This would surely be interesting to a lot of people. But Wikimedia itself is not a political body, so projects like this may not be seen as appropriate for here.
A lot of projects with wide interest are hosted on wiki farms though.
There are many wiki farms and other bodies and many groups use wikis for the kind of proposal you have. Perhaps set up a wiki on a wiki farmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_farm ?
FT2 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral315@gmail.comwrote:
Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gps gadgil.ps@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello,
One of the biggest problems of democratic givernance is that Allocated funds for various causes, initiatives and projects disappear due to corruption, mismanagement or just lie unutilised due to poor or non-existant public oversight.
Another aspect is that the public Audit watchdogs in may countries is unable to function independently, and their reports disappear when inconvenient.
Many a times the issues come to limelight when irreparable damage has been done, due to media expose or due to increasingly used Right-to-Information provisions, however media moves on to next issue, and there is no permanant vigil over the public expenditure. The same issue is rampant in Asia, Africa and even in developed countries.
We need a Global countrywise repository for monitoring, tracking, identifying possible issues in public expenditure. The domain is important enough for Wikimedia, and the support / backing crucial enough for the platform to succeed. Pl. consider this request to start a wiki to monitor the government spending, possibly named as GovSpendWatch-Wiki. Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki
Pl. forward the proposal to foundation-l mail-list for review.
regards, prasad gadgil - प्रसाद गाडगीळ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Sorry, I didn't check mail on phone during meetup... I was there, today.
Regards, Prasad
On 18/12/2010, Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
Are you at the Bangalore meetup, Prasad?
anirudh
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