Open Data

A proposal for Budgetpedia’s advocacy position: modern accounting

When the Budgetpedia project started in 2015, our self-created mandate was to make the Toronto budget more accessible to people so support informed debate about the budget. Trouble is, it’s pretty much impossible to…

A naturalized view of Toronto’s 2017 operating budget

Budgetpedia’s Mission to Transform Advocates into Accountants

Candidates for improvements to the Toronto public financial records

The budgetpedia.ca project has been working on presenting Toronto budget data since July of 2015, and I have personally been researching aspects of the budget since about 2008. budgetpedia.ca released its first…

Toronto now publishes Activity level open data for its operating budgets

Starting with discussions in 2004, and formal programming in 2008, Toronto has created a system called FPARS (Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting System) to support budgeting and financial controls…