1. Government Contracts Status and Effectiveness Code 4 Country Программисты для страны United States Department of State United States Agency for International Development American University September 24-25, 2011

2. Project Team John Willis, john.willis@pinfosec.com Harsha Karin, b.harshakarin@gmail.com Venkata Rudraraju, vrudrara@gmu.edu Raghav Cheertroy, rpetluvu@gmu.edu Mike Willis, miekstro@gmail.com

3. Problem Space Citizen visibility, reduce government spending waste Development effectiveness Increase visibility, reduce fraud and corruption Most tools function at a higher level, our focus is at the project milestone effectiveness level Facilitate collaboration : Government, CSO/NGO, Citizens, Whistleblowers

4. Solution Tool for individual governments, civil society/NGOs, citizens groups, simple to use Provide a simple tool that can be localized and implemented in any country Local or global visibility Support OpenData Mobile support

5. Features and Use Cases Features: (Adv) indicates Advanced functionality that might not be implemented at first, but should be considered for future enhancements User administration: add user, approve user, update user profile Import dataset: mapping, import (from csv, txt or xml) Populate project milestones (may already contain year- to-year payment milestones): assumed to be done by Data Owner (Adv: allow Data Owner ability to grant update privilege to specific user(s)) Search project milestones currently under evaluation Evaluation comments: view (displayed by user type), post (any user) Update milestone completion status (Data Owner)

6. User Types Administrator Data Owner - whoever imports and controls population of data Government Financial (?) Contractor CSO/NGO Citizen Business

7. Project Information Name Lead Funder Contractor Total cost Number of milestones defined Adv: Sector field select - Water, Transportation, Energy, Food, Health, etc. Brief description

8. Project Milestone Information Date driven Project activity might have initial funding Milestone evaluation may or may not have funds disbursement as a result Evaluation criteria is a free text field Users able to add comments to evaluation discussion: Organized by user type, then date

9. Project Milestone Information (cont'd) Adv: Users may rate effectiveness on a scale of 1 to 10 (excluding Contractor, who may provide comments after final rating) Evaluation successful indication allows project flow to continue Adv: Add project quality indicators to indicate existence of issues, even though project allowed to continue

10. Query Capabilities Assumed to be within a given government, whether nation, state, city, etc. List all projects' milestones currently under evaluation View a given project's list of milestones (named), and their status (complete, under evaluation, Adv: Issues)

11. Query Capabilities (cont'd) Adv: List all projects under evaluation in a given Sector Adv: Include effectiveness rating after milestone completed. Calculate as average of the equally weighted user categories (of average within user community)

12. Next Steps Identify a sponsor Circulate application information to a wider audience for first round of minimal enhancements Identify a government to utilize as a pilot to refine features (e.g., India - municipal public works project) Forge strategic partnerships with stakeholders such as key CSOs, World Bank, US AID, Transparency International, etc.

13. Next Steps Demonstrate integration into higher level budget visualization applications (e.g., Spending Transparency project in Russia, or similar) Provide space in conjunction with OpenSpending, or similar, to provide global visibility Promote use of application with CSOs, etc.