Who could be interested? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lucy Chambers" <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> Date: Jul 1, 2012 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Documentary - Budget Monitoring Organisations To: "Prodromos Tsiavos" <prodromos [ dot ] tsiavos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> Cc: "Theodoros G. Karounos" <t [ dot ] karounos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> Hi Both, Just wondering whether you had had any more chance to think about this one? I'm hoping to be in Athens from Friday and Thessaloniki the following Tuesday, so anyone you can recommend me to get in touch with would be much appreciated! Lucy On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org>wrote: > Brilliant, thanks Prodromos, > > Theodoros - nice to meet you and look forward to hearing from you! > > Lucy > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Prodromos Tsiavos > <prodromos [ dot ] tsiavos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > > Hi Lucy, > > > > I m forwarding this to Theodoros from GFOSS as well and will get back to > you > > asap! > > > > All the best, > > pRo > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> > > wrote: > >> > >> Dear Prodromos, > >> > >> I don't believe we have met in person, but believe you have met my > >> colleague, Kat Braybrooke? My name is Lucy Chambers and I am the > >> community coordinator on the OpenSpending.org project here at the Open > >> Knowledge Foundation. > >> > >> I'm currently working on a project to map out the technical needs of > >> organisations working in the field of budget monitoring. It's a > >> project supported by OSI - more here: > >> > >> > http://openspending.org/blog/2012/01/12/civil-society-and-spending-data-who-is-mapping-the-money.html > >> and as part of this, I'm hoping to travel around Europe next month > >> interviewing and doing a video-documentary about the challenges these > >> organisations face, which tools they use to work with their data etc. > >> > >> Greece is on my list and I'd love to interview some people there, but > >> I'm having a hard time to get hold of civil society organisations > >> whose explicit aim is budget transparency - e.g. it's apparently not a > >> topic that Transparency International deal with in Greece. Do you know > >> of anyone I should get in contact with while I am there? > >> > >> The documentary is quite informal, we are looking to interview > >> organisations who work in the area of budget and expenditure > >> monitoring, social auditing etc, Issue Advocacy e.g. Gender budgeting > >> / Youth budgeting, Transparency (Process Advocacy) - people who > >> campaign for information to be released... , Academic / Economists who > >> do research using financial data, Technology and Data Advocates, Media > >> / Journalists researching financial topics, Parliamentarians - the > >> individuals within governments responsible for analysing and making > >> policy based on these types of data. We expect to make some 5-10 > >> minute long mini-films on the issue of budget transparency and they'll > >> be published on OpenSpending.org. > >> > >> Any ideas you have for people I should contact would be most > >> appreciated, and if you have any thoughts on the topic yourself, I > >> would be delighted to hear them! > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> > >> Lucy > >> > >> -- > >> Lucy Chambers > >> Community Coordinator, > >> OpenSpending & Data Journalism > >> Open Knowledge Foundation > >> Skype: lucyfediachambers > >> Twitter: @lucyfedia > > > > > > > > -- > Lucy Chambers > Community Coordinator, > OpenSpending & Data Journalism > Open Knowledge Foundation > Skype: lucyfediachambers > Twitter: @lucyfedia > -- Lucy Chambers Community Coordinator, OpenSpending <http://openspending.org/> & Data Journalism<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/data-driven-journalism> Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> Skype: lucyfediachambers Twitter: @lucyfedia <https://twitter.com/#!/lucyfedia>