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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. This allows data and documents at all stages of the contracting cycle to be disclosed according to a common data model.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.” Open data has been available in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) since 2020.

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India’s federal procurement data infrastructure

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

In a previous blog , we explored some common problems data scientists encounter when collecting and analyzing data. Some of these challenges are made more explicit in our most recent report, “India’s Federal Procurement Data Infrastructure: Observations and Recommendations.” CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. to as little as 1.8%, depending on the calculation method and source data.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

Opportunity #3: Public Spending Coordinated with Climate Action Proper management of public finances requires rules, mechanisms, processes, and controls to ensure that spending decisions avoid added fiscal costs and contribute to an orderly, fair, and inclusive transition to a carbon neutral economy.

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