Opening up Procurements – Panel
Tuesday 17 September, 11:45 – 13:15 @ Room 5, Floor 3
Moderator: Anders Pedersen, Community Coordinator, OpenSpending, Open Knowledge Foundation
Panel members:
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Sandor Lederer, Co-founder and CEO, K-Monitor Watchdog for Public Funds
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Felipe Estefan, Open Government / ICT4Gov at The World Bank / Open Contracting
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Julia Keserű, International Program Coordinator and Kaitlin Devine, Senior Developer, Sunlight Foundation
- Mathias Huter, Project Manager, Transparency International Georgia
The panel will feature a discussion about the common challenges and possible next steps in opening up government procurements. We will discuss and compare some national examples, the global norms of the Open Contracting team, Sunlight Foundation’s basic findings on procurement disclosure trends from all around the world and CSO tools built around procurement data. The panel is a teaser and a warm-up for the Human Centered Data: What Should Public Spending Data Tell Us? workshop (Tuesday 17 September, 11:45 – 13:15 @ Room 14, Floor 2).
