Openbudgets.brussels - Brussels Capital Region
Brussels Capital Region (Belgium)
Better understanding of who spent how much and why, makes political decisions more transparent.
Openbudget.brussels is a cadaster of public spending in the framework of public procurement and grants in the Brussels Region. All key information at regional level since 2018 (amounts, beneficiaries, objects...) are included. Tunnel renovation works, subsidies to sports NPOs, Covid premiums, subsidies to companies for innovation... A real mine of information! What's more, all the data is in open data, allowing their reuse.
Openbudgets.brussels is a Brussels Capital Region-project based on open datasets, published on a data model built for the reuse and visualisation of these data. You can find the data model on datastore.brussels.
In May 2019, the Brussels-Capital Region wished to make its administrations more transparent by adopting the joint decree and ordinance of May 16, 2019 relating to the Brussels public institutions’ publicity of administration. Since then, the administrations publish inventories of the public contracts and subsidies they've granted every year.
Thanks to these inventories, the users (i.e. the citizens) can find the exact amounts and the names of the beneficiaries of all these expenses for the public authorities of the Brussels-Capital Region, and this with the maximum of details available.
After the first phase of the project a new workshop aiming at harvesting feedback for future evolutions was also organised.
