National Treasury launches data portal for municipal finances
South Africa’s National Treasury is moving to have municipal spending “‘demystified” and promote transparency and citizen engagement through the launch of a new data portal that is open to the public.
The Municipal Money open local government budget data portal provides citizens and other stakeholders with access to comparable, verified information on the financial performance of each municipality.
“This exciting new initiative has the potential to transform the way members of the public view and engage with municipal financial data. It will no doubt also contribute to enhanced civic oversight, greater transparency and increased accountability of newly elected municipal councils,” the National Treasury said on Wednesday.
The Web-based platform, which is “free, reliable and user-friendly”, will eventually be expanded to include wider sets of service delivery information and geographical locations as well as visibility of progress on planned infrastructure projects in communities.
“Municipal Money draws on the raw data from a linked database, which is now also available for anyone to view, download and reuse. In fact, it is envisaged that the raw data will be used by analysts or app developers in conjunction with other data sources to create innovative, interesting and valuable new applications for municipal financial data.”
The portal was developed in partnership with Code for South Africa.
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