Linked Open

Economy: a better
economy?
Michalis Vafopoulos,
vafopoulos.org
NCSR Demokritos & ODI Athens
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PublicSpending.net

Can we provide answers?

Is public procurement expensive?

Are retail prices high? Why?

Contractors of public projects
globally
Is public budgeting effective?
How the EU Digital Single Market
strategy can extend its reach with
open data?
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Not yet
Economic Open data are:

Unstructured
Unexpected
Disaggregated in
depth
Not related to policy
goals
With great potential

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tax

Corporate
tax
transparency

other
revenues
economic
informati
on

budge
t

GOV

procureme
nt

subsidies/
aid

spending

AUDITORS
SUPPLIERS

price

marke
t
business
informati
on

food & agricul.

finance
energy
tourism

product
informati
on

quantit
y
quality

building a common

Open Data story I:

tomato life

from the lab to flea markets &

social groceries
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price
s

Averag Daily
Quanti
e
ty
(/kg)

Sold

90.6
WHOLESALE 0.91
69%
t
Price
Store differen
s
ce

RETAIL Fresh

CHOPPED
SPAR 440GR

CHOPPED
PUMMARO 400gr

PROCUREMEN
T

1.44

19

1.42 178

77%
9%

1.53 1076 22%

1.43 19 182%

From price to
procurement
Buyer

City of Agrafa
City of
Alexandria
City of New
Ionia

Differen
Difference
Price
ce from
from
(/kg)
wholesal
retail
e

date
30/10/1
3
02/07/1
4
21/11/1
4

Seller

2.10

110%

200%

PAPADIMOU SA

1.33

15%

33%

PHILIPOPOUL.
SA

0.91

12%

-10%

SIS SA

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Total (from
Total
Fro notified
Pesticid
by
Total distributed
in
Founded
Limit
To
Exceeds
mg/kg
mg/kg
1980)
Greece
m
e
Greece
withdrawa
ethepho
7/11/14216
ESP GER
20
3.4
l
n

Quality: food
alerts

Date

Classif.

Subjec
t

25/11/1 border too high content of sulphite (2696 mg/kg 1

rejection ppm) in sun dried tomatoes from Turkey

real-time budget ratios

Revenues per
capita (/resident)
Subsidies per
capita (/resident)

City of
Athens

City of
Thessalonik
i

87.23

65.77

31.82

Regular revenues
to total revenues
65.07
(%)
Personnel Cost to
total expenses (%)
33.29
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32.60
62.15
28.84

Procurement & subsidies

Company

Public
procurement ()

Subsidies ()

Hellenic Petroleum

734.1 M

105 K

Public Power Corp.

72 M

23 K

Metka S.A.

40.3 M

33.5 K

Hellenic Telecomm. Org.

17 M

644 K

Piraeus Bank

12.3 M

Intracom
Constructions

11.8 M

Terna Energy S.A.

4.5 M

34.1 M

Engineering: Linked Open

Economy
Orchestrate economic open data to
facilitate accountability and competition
through transparency and innovation.

Open up digital opportunities for people and

business and enhance Europe's position as a
world leader in the digital economy.

Policy: Digital Single

Market

Engineering ethics
Open data from:
public: taxes, resources, procurement,
audits
private: prices, information accountability
communities: standards, technologies

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What the Web really

changes?
New ways to ask and answer the basic
existential and everyday questions.

Generation Open
The test of a free society is not the liberty
to consume information, nor to produce it,
nor even to implement its potential in
private world of one's choosing.
The test of a free society is the liberty for
the collective transformation of the
world through abstractions freely chosen
and freely actualised.
M. Wark
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Generation Open

change things
together
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