This was presented by Katherine Wikrent from the Open Contracting Partnership at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2018) in Lisbon on 19th April 2018. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2018

1. Value for money meets value for many:
Open contracting and civic participation
Impacts of data literacy and data usage @opencontracting
@K_Wikrent

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Takeaways
1.Uniting data, civic tech, and public participation helps track spending and
demand accountability
2.We see results- quantitative and qualitative- from Colombia, Paraguay, and
Ukraine
3.Challenges include identifying use cases, promoting culture shifts, and data
quality
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What we do
● Cross-sectoral collaboration
● CSO and civic tech participation
● Technical support and tool development
● Capacity building & data literacy
● Data use
● Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)
● Impact analyses
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@K_Wikrent

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Colombia: Data literacy
transforms school meals
Inputs
● Political advocacy
● User needs workshops
● Technical work
● Private sector
consultations
● Data use events @opencontracting
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Colombia: Data literacy
transforms school meals
Outcomes
● Improved dialogue between
government and end user
● Better quality data
● First-time participation of
recognized companies
● Business consortium of 347
people to monitor meals @opencontracting
@K_Wikrent

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Colombia: Data literacy
transforms school meals
Results
● Exposed price-fixing
scheme that increased
costs by 45%
● Savings of 10–15%
● $130 million shared by 12
companies is now allocated
to 54 (14 are new)
● 700,000 quality meals daily
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@K_Wikrent

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Activity: User Needs Analysis
● Cross-sectoral
conversations about goals,
struggles, needs, realities
● Match intended impacts to
concrete data needs
● Map these needs to data
available and identify gaps
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@K_Wikrent

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Paraguay: Civic participation saves money
Inputs
● Internal capacity development
● Technical consultations across sectors
● Hackathons
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@K_Wikrent

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Paraguay: Civic participation saves money
Outcomes
● Visits to portal up 32%
● Greater citizen participation
● Increase in number of suppliers, with more than 21,000 registered now
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@K_Wikrent

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Paraguay: Civic participation saves money
Results
● Increase in savings of procurement costs of
1.4%
● Amendments on contracts dropped from
19% of all contracts to 3%
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@K_Wikrent

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Activity: Analyzing Priority Schools and
Spending
● 1/2 schools on the priority list weren’t
even on land belonging to the
Ministry of Education
● Only 1 school actually most in need
● Before: Required $2,600, 8 months
● After: Required $200, 2 weeks
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@K_Wikrent

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Ukraine: Data use decreases
corruption and grows businesses
Inputs
● Business intelligence tool for
analysing tender data
● Complaints mechanism for bidders
● Information portal with training
guides
● Monitoring platform for buyers &
suppliers to rate experiences &
send complaints
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@K_Wikrent

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Ukraine: Data use decreases
corruption and grows businesses
Outcomes
● ProZorro went from 680 to 191,000
Google queries
● 15,000 buyers and 47,000
commercial suppliers in system
● Public bodies & SOEs use data to
monitor procurement & feedback
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@K_Wikrent

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Ukraine: Data use decreases
corruption and grows businesses
@opencontracting
@K_Wikrent
ProZorro
● Suppliers went from 9.4 to 11.4
● 72% believe Prozorro reduces
corruption
● 80.8% said procurement has
improved with Prozorro
● 80% bidders are SMEs
DoZorro
● Flagged 5,000 tenders in 6 months
● 50% of flagged were resolved
● 200 tenders revised, 22 criminal
charges pressed, and 79 sanctions
issued
Results

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Activity: MEL Framework
● Baseline: 2015; Annual progress reports
● Qualitative and quantitative indicators:
○ Policy changes
○ Data quality
○ Engagement and feedback
○ Results: Business opportunities, Value for money, Integrity
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@K_Wikrent

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Key Challenges
● Identifying use case past “transparency for transparency”
● Promoting culture of cooperation and monitoring
● Data quality and completeness
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@K_Wikrent