{"id":1893,"date":"2014-06-30T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ais.al\/new\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2015-08-03T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:54:50","slug":"ais-attended-the-conference-political-accountability-and-new-technologies-point-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/ais-attended-the-conference-political-accountability-and-new-technologies-point-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"AIS attended the conference: Political Accountability and New Technologies ( POINT 3.0 )"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"point3.0\"<\/a> \"1466039_780531985324219_1887497166427510096_n\"<\/a> \"10276554_754510451256537_739708157_n\"<\/a> \"10301942_687586951301094_5858042977116287858_n\"<\/a> \"10325510_780532318657519_4879991722102836526_n\"<\/a> \"10380994_687585887967867_4851449464017010075_n\"<\/a>Political Accountability and New Technologies ( POINT 3.0 ) conference took place in Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo from May 22nd<\/sup> to May 24th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s program offered a variety of great speakers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and screenings.<\/p>\n

Among other great speakers, there appeared Michael Slaby<\/strong>, the CTO of the Obama 2008 campaign;\u00a0Chris Albon<\/strong>\u00a0from Ushahidi;\u00a0Sultan Al-Qassemi<\/strong>, one of the most distinguished bloggers and analysts on the\u00a0Middle East also Ardian Haxha<\/strong> and Drinor Selmanaj <\/strong>from FLOSSK Kosovo in collaboration with Victor Nitu<\/strong> and Ioana Cristea<\/strong> from Ceata Foundation Romania with the workshop about Security and Privacy.<\/p>\n

Several panels\u00a0in the two days of the conference addressed interesting and burning issues, like challenges of open government, humor and satire as means of political activism, measuring truth in the eve of elections and political activism going digital.<\/p>\n

Albanian Institute of Science was introduced , in the second day of the conference, with the project of Open Spending Albania<\/a>\/ Open Data Albania<\/a>. Our representative Besjana Hysa <\/strong>spoke about Open spending Albania<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 five apps for treasury monitoring. First, money map provides information on the budgets in the past few years (planned and actual!). Bubble tree is an app that visualizes the budget and provides citizens with an overview of budget categories, a cool thing to do, being that budgets can be boring sometimes. Daily bread tells you how much money are you giving to which area through your taxes. Another part of Open spending Albania is Fund diversion. Great feature of this app is that it identifies most discriminated areas of the budget. Also, the most important thing was monitoring of state treasury spending, and although we had problems with transparency from the government, things are now much better.Thanks to several years of work and coordination among the civil society and the public administration in the framework of OGP, Open Data Albania managed to develop an application for monitoring the state treasury. The work for this result has started much earlier than the project itself.Finally, the Albanian state budget is open, and our application offers some information filters based on: how public administration spendsthe Money; where do the funds go; how much is paid for different services; how much Money specific companies receive from specific institutions over a certain period of time; how much Money was spent in a short period of time.<\/p>\n

Treasure Monitoring marks the most decisive moment in the process for an Open Government.<\/p>\n

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Due to the\u00a0tragic situation caused by unprecedented floods across the country, POINT 3.0 Conference dedicated part of its time to try and\u00a0help people\u00a0in need. U.G. \u201cWhy not\u201d already established the \u201cFlood Map\u201d website throughout which citizens can report the problems incurred as a result of floods, publish locations help collection, the most important information to contact support services operating in BiH, but also lists of all\u00a0the bank\u00a0accounts opened for donation.<\/p>\n

POINT 3.0 Conference devote the entire third day of the conference, which is scheduled for practical workshops, to developing new or improving existing platforms for disaster aid.<\/p>\n

POINT\u00a0conference\u00a0was organized by CA Why not (Za\u0161to ne) from BiH,\u00a0in cooperation with Center for Research on Transparency and Accountability (CRTA)\u00a0from Serbia, Metamorphosis from Macedonia, Mjaft\u00a0from Albania, Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) from Montenegro and IPKO Foundation from Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Partners and supporters of this year\u2019s conference were also\u00a0National Endowment\u00a0for Democracy, Balkan Trust for Democracy, Embassy of the United States\u00a0in BiH, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, TechSoup, Emerging Democracies Institute, Analitika and Mediacentar.<\/p>\n

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Political Accountability and New Technologies ( POINT 3.0 ) conference took place in Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo from May 22nd to May 24th. This year\u2019s program offered a variety of great speakers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and screenings. Among other great speakers, there appeared Michael Slaby, the CTO of the Obama 2008 campaign;\u00a0Chris Albon\u00a0from Ushahidi;\u00a0Sultan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ais.al\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}