March 1, 2011 7:00 PM - 4 attended
Simple tools for organizational transparency
I'd love to get a group together and do this as a Kickstarter project. I'd like to see if we can create some super simple web based tools that let anyone - charitable organization, event website, etc - publish their finances in a totally transparent way: what the bank balances are, who's taking money out and putting money in, to what use, and so on. I think if we made it easy enough we could bring a whole new level of transparency!
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Travis Wellman
I think mint.com has proven that financial information can be centrally tracked. I don't use mint, but I would imagine that if they had a "publish" button that would be the whole story. Not to imply there shouldn't be an open source competitor, because there should.
Also worth checking out, bitcoin is a financial system that achieves stability through transparency. For instance, you can see all transactions with the EFF here http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2Y...
Posted February 18, 2011 at 7:06 PM -
Harlan
Fernando, thanks for posting this! Sounds very cool. I have a longtime interest in transparency, although I've focussed my ideas more on ratings than on financial reporting. ( Some thoughts here: http://enlightenedstructure.org/trust-exchange
)I'd be very happy to meet up around this, and also to chat about ideas and projects in general.
Posted February 18, 2011 at 8:59 PM -
Travis Wellman
I changed the date and time to Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Posted February 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM -
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Travis Wellman
Throwing out a suggestion for time and place. I can vouch for the Crossroads Cafe as a place I've been to before for meetups. But by all means, give alternatives. I'd like to finally engage with this group.
Posted February 22, 2011 at 3:40 PM -
Harlan
I can't make that Thursday, but could do Tues the 1st -- is that good for others?
Posted February 22, 2011 at 6:23 PM -
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HarlanOrganizerGreat gathering! We ended up talking mostly about creative collaboration projects -- we found out that a few of us were working on similar projects, and we planned to set up future collaborations.
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Aside from the banks opening up their API for third party access like this, this is similar to the platform (just anonymize the name) @ http://campaign.primtings.com
(details @ http://bit.ly/9tpRX2
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